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Authorities have been cleared in one review of the Great Barrington, Massachusetts Police response to a book about gender identity at a public middle school.
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More than 100 people were arrested overnight at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, according to campus police. The arrests came as demonstrators set up camp to protest the war in Gaza.
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The Southern Berkshire County community of Monterey is holding its town meeting Saturday morning.
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The Berkshire County communities of Lenox and Adams, Massachusetts are holding town elections Monday.
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Lenox, Massachusetts voters briskly approved a 14-item warrant at town meeting Thursday night, the last after a decade for the outgoing town manager.
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A federal complaint has been filed against a school district in western Massachusetts, months after racist bullying at a school in Southwick led to national attention and criminal charges.
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A legal organization dedicated to fighting discrimination is weighing in on the tense superintendent search in Springfield, Massachusetts. The group says it’s concerned about the search process – and it’s letter arrived just as the first interviews with candidates get underway.
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The Vermont Secretary of State and the League of Women Voters of Vermont hosted an online forum Wednesday evening on Ranked Choice Voting, with the practice poised to expand.
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An unsolved homicide case in West Springfield, Massachusetts appears to have come to an end, following a change of plea by the man accused of killing a 10-year-old child in 1966.
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An interview with Lenox, Massachusetts Town Manager Christopher Ketchen.
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The Burlington, Vermont Board of Finance reviewed the city’s proposed budget this week after the new mayor announced there is a larger than expected shortfall.
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This week the Vermont Senate rejected Governor Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders to serve as the state’s Education Secretary. Most of the governor’s weekly briefing today focused on the implications of that debate.