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Cow Chip Festival returns to Dighton
DIGHTON, Mass. (WLNE) — The annual Cow Chip Festival in Dighton is underway. The Dighton Lions Club has organized a weekend of carnival rides, music, and cow chips for more than 30 years. The football field at town hall is divided into “grids” to match a board, which residents...
Work restarts on Rt. 24/140 in Taunton. What to know about timeline, new contractor, more
TAUNTON — After the abrupt halting of work last fall on the multi-million dollar and multi-year construction project for the Route 24/Route 140 interchange after the contractor walked off the job — work picked back up this past winter with a new contractor. The original contractor that walked...
Brockton school board wants to raise the dropout age, proposes new state law
BROCKTON – The Brockton School Committee unanimously voted to propose a new law in conjunction with the Massachusetts Association of School Committees to raise the legal school dropout age in the state from 16 to 18. During the May 21 meeting, committee members approved a resolution that will be...
Fall River among the 100 best US cities for another year. But our ranking fell: here's why
A website that ranks small to mid-sized cities across America has, for the second year in a row, listed Fall River among the 100 best cities in the country thanks to its parks, restaurants and colleges. But Fall River took a slight dip in its rankings from last year. “The waterfront community of Fall...
NBC 10 I-Team: Grand jury indicts woman accused in Sabina Matos election signature scandal
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — A Rhode Island grand jury has indicted the woman at the center of the Sabina Matos election signature scandal last summer. 52-year-old Holly McClaren of Providence appeared in court this morning. She’s charged with falsely certifying nomination papers and filing false documents with a public...
Community safe after swift cleanup of dangerous chemical spill in Mansfield
(WJAR) — Early Tuesday morning in Mansfield, a 911 call came in for a fluid leak at a business on Maple Street, but things ended up escalating very quickly. “It was contained immediately,” said Deputy Fire Chief John Terry with the Mansfield Fire Department. “A lot of times we take that as gasoline or something leaking from a vehicle, I wouldn’t say downplayed but it was a single engine response at that time and when they got on the scene they realized it was an actual fluid leak from a transport vehicle.”
Bristol Community College Veterans Center to host FREE off-base transition training workshops
“Bristol Community College’s Joseph A. Marshall Veterans Center has partnered with the Department of Labor’s Off-Base Transition Training (OBTT) program to host the upcoming workshops “Your Next Move” and “Marketing Yourself” to better assist veterans, National Guard members and military spouses with the transition to civilian careers.
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