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Harvest Festival in Downtown Worcester on Sunday
WORCESTER – Exchange Street in downtown Worcester is being transformed into a farmer’s market and fall festival on Sunday, Oct. 13. Market on Exchange, a planned weekly farmers market, is hosting its pilot event, Harvest Festival, to assess demand for an ongoing Sunday market in downtown Worcester. Harvest...
Question 2: What to know about removing the MCAS graduation requirement
Question 2 would remove the graduation requirement to pass the MCAS. Students would still take the test, but their diploma would hinge instead on their district's graduation standards. Voters will decide if Massachusetts high schoolers should be required to pass the MCAS to graduate as one of the November election’s...
Maine’s Favorite Halloween Candy Choice For 2024 Is Truly Scary
This "love it, or leave it" classic candy, is tops in the 207. As we get closer and closer to Halloween, many of us have candy on our brains. Our-co-worker Chris Popper is famous in these parts, for handing out giant-sized candy bars, so as you can imagine, he is a pretty big hit in his Bangor neighborhood, but when it comes to Maine's favorite candy of choice, it is amazingly, chocolate free.
Mass. Gov. Healey announces $350M for Cape Cod bridges rebuild
The Healey administration has said it’s secured $350 million in federal assistance to rebuild one of the two bridges leading to Cape Cod. In a Friday statement, the Democratic governor’s office said it signed a “memorandum of agreement” with the U.S. Department of the Army and the Federal Highway Administration to rebuild the Sagamore Bridge.
Why have MCAS scores dropped in Massachusetts?
BOSTON - Why have Massachusetts MCAS scores measuring student learning and retention continued their years-long slide to well below pre-pandemic levels? Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler said literacy is partially to blame.Promoting literacy education"We know what part of the problem is, where we see the biggest challenge on the MCAS, particularly our younger students, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, is in the space of literacy," said state Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler. "Right now, less than half of third graders are performing at proficient or above on the MCAS [in English Language Arts]."The state has launched a $20 million initiative to...
Quick slug of rain incoming to New England tonight
After high pressure builds into New England today, a trough will cross the region starting tonight. This system will bring a period of beneficial rain and usher in a cooler, more October-like air mass into the region. An upper-level system will pass well to the north of New England, dragging its fronts across the region. This may spawn a surface low near New England, which would help create more widespread showers. These showers will move west east starting Sunday night for western New England and moving eastward through the day Monday.
The (dam) good reason Mass. Gov. Healey got involved in that beaver dispute | John L. Micek
Good Sunday morning, everyone. Quick: What do a machine gun range on Cape Cod, a thoroughly domesticated semi-aquatic rodent and Boston’s stalled tax shift have in common?. The answer: One way or another, they’ve all fallen prey to the state government’s (generally) iron grip on local matters. It’s a nonpartisan tradition that stretches back to the days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Hopkinton police say email scam seeks to take advantage of less internet-savvy people
HOPKINTON — Police are warning of a scam in which emails featuring personal information and photos of the targeted person are being sent ordering recipients to either pay money or risk having embarrassing personal information released to the public. The email, Hopkinton police Sgt. Gregg DeBoer said, targets people whom the scammers believe may not be savvy about the internet, and will hence comply with making the payments. ...
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