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Savoy seeks Athol Royalston School Committee seat
ATHOL – Jason Savoy, a 1999 graduate of Athol High School, is one of two people running for a one-year term on the Athol-Royalston Regional School Committee in next Monday’s annual Town Election. Savoy is seeking to fill the vacancy created by the...
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Chapman seeking seat on Royalston Selectboard
ROYALSTON – Bill Chapman said it that the help he and his family received from the community following a fire at their home drove him to seek a seat on the Selectboard.Chapman, of Royalston, is one of two candidates running to replace outgoing...
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UMass hockey: 9-time national champion Denver awaits Minutemen in NCAA Springfield Regional opener
SPRINGFIELD — Greg Carvel had his house to himself last Saturday, the date of the University of Denver’s NCHC title game with Omaha. If Denver won, the UMass ice hockey head coach and his team would be back in the NCAA tournament. A loss would mark...
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Opinion
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My Turn: Discover and protect a Greenfield treasure
There is hidden treasure right here in Greenfield. Years ago, the treasure was in plain sight. Now it is practically unrecognizable except in the early spring. I discovered small nuggets of the treasure when Ted Watt, well-known naturalist and...
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Police Logs
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Athol Police Logs: Feb 19 to Feb. 27
Monday Feb. 1912:03 a.m. - Welfare check requested on Crescent Street. Caller reporting someone sitting on the bridge. No contact with anyone matching the description of person on bridge.12:52 a.m. - Business/building check on Daniel Shays Highway....
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Arts & Life
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Sounds Local: Thriving on a riff: Percussionist Tony Vacca brings Fusion Nomads to Hawks & Reed this Friday for ‘a magic carpet ride’
‘From the first time a musician went beyond his or her home village, or region, or nation,” percussionist Tony Vacca says, “music has been an ever-expanding, multi-culti hybrid of instruments and ways to play them.” According to Vacca, that is the...
Obituaries
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Lagrange, GA - Donna Jean Maroni Brand, age 65, of LaGrange, GA passed away at WellStar West Georgia Hospice on March 17th, 2024. She was born in Athol, Massachusetts on January 28th, 1959,... remainder of obit for Donna Jean Maroni Brand
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Orange, MA - With profound sorrow, we announce the passing of Leo P. Godin, a cherished father, grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather. Born on June 19, 1927, in Montgom... remainder of obit for Leo P. Godin
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Miriam "Mimi" Hellen Jones Petersham , MA - Miriam 'Mimi' Hellen Jones passed away at her family farm in Petersham on January 24 at the age of 74, from undiagnosed cancer. The daughter of Fr... remainder of obit for Miriam Hellen Jones
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West Boylston, MA - Roger Underwood Wellington, Jr. of West Boylston, MA and Vero Beach, FL died on March 6 at the age of 82. He passed peacefully with support from his loving family after a len... remainder of obit for Roger Underwood Wellington Jr.