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A long-vacant building in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is now home to over 70 apartments – a feat celebrated by the mayor and other officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.
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Before the full House chamber takes up the bill this week, Speaker Jill Krowinski, a Democrat, gathered key committee chairs and advocates, saying there must be a course correction in the state’s public education system.
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The town of Amherst, Massachusetts, put on an annual festival Saturday devoted to promoting sustainability, including local causes.
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Three labor unions representing over 100,000 workers in Massachusetts have announced their support for overdose prevention centers.
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The Vermont Department of Health is announcing over $4 million in grants to support violence prevention initiatives.
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The University of Vermont’s commencement speaker will be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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One of the largest community colleges in western Massachusetts inaugurated its president Friday.
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A Springfield police officer who was at the center of an excessive force case in 2016 is fighting to be re-certified.
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The Vermont House Ways and Means committee advanced a bill that sets the property tax rate and makes changes to the state’s education finance system.
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The Burlington, Vermont Police Department has updated its website to provide a more detailed description of its Priority Response Plan.
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As legislators in the Statehouse work on the budget and the governor calls for fiscal restraint, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility held a policy forum this week to discuss possible revenue strategies.
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Sheffield, Massachusetts resident Nadia Milleron is running as an independent in this year’s Congressional election. She’s attempting to unseat long serving 1st district Democrat Richard Neal on an anti-corporate, anti-war platform. Neal, who has been in office since 1989, is one of the most heavily corporately funded politicians in the United States. Milleron became an advocate for greater regulation of the airline industry in 2019 after her daughter Samya Rose Stumo died in a Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia.