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Lebanon man, who worked as snowplow driver during Blizzard of 1978, retiring after nearly 5 decades with state Dan Bewley has been working for INDOT since he was 19 years old.
At that time, he drove state trucks. "Along with that job was plowing snow, and that's when the Blizzard of '78 hit," Bewley said. The historic winter storm dumped over a foot of snow across central ...
A University of Massachusetts student who was interning in Congress was killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C.
She came to Washington with a group of other college students, many from similar financial circumstances, to bring attention to the financial aid implications of President Donald Trump ’s so ...
It’s not just students who are benefiting. Thanks to the college’s success, it’s seen an increase in state funding—up 63 percent over eight years. Massachusetts could learn some lessons.
Massachusetts launched its free community college program last fall after state budget negotiators agreed to cover the costs with revenue from the surtax on the state's highest income households. The ...
Re “As College Students Move Out, Scavengers Get Ready to Cash In” (front page, June 9): The person who searched the trash room of her apartment building to find tons of treasures thrown out ...
Two educators are facing manslaughter charges after a student drowned on a summer field trip in western Massachusetts last ...
Nearly 17 years after the fatal 2008 stabbing of 19-year-old Becker College student William Smith, the Worcester County Grand Jury has indicted a man with murder.
The fallout sparked campus protests and, eventually, reforms that gave students more say in their newspaper's content. Now, as MCLA’s student paper once again goes quiet for unrelated reasons, the ...
Two educators are facing manslaughter charges after a student drowned on a summer field trip in western Massachusetts last ...
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.