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By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.

By GREG VINE

ROYALSTON – Retired U.S. Army officer Steven Egan is one of three people running to fill the seat on Royalston’s Selectboard which was vacated when former board member Shelby Bronnes resigned in January.

By MITCH FINK

President Donald Trump’s return to office has raised questions about the future of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding Massachusetts secured for its West-East Rail plan with suggestions the administration may place a greater emphasis on birth and marriage rates and immigration policy.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Town Manager Shaun Suhoski briefed the Selectboard at its meeting Tuesday on a proposal for work on the roof of the Bidwell Barn on South Athol Road.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Following a two-year absence from local elective office, Mitch Grosky is hoping to return as a member of Athol’s Selectboard.

By ZEKE MILLER and MICHELLE L. PRICE

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out “lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The Trump administration’s ongoing push to slash the federal workforce and spending is continuing to raise angst, with recent rounds of cuts drawing the ire of a leading local veterans organization and the New England Aquarium.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – Marc Maxwell, a 23-year resident of Athol, is one of four people who hope to win one of two three-year Selectboard seats in next month’s town elections.

By MIKE LIVINGSTON

Bolstered transparency and a money back guarantee are a few of the ideas being floated by governors to smooth the path for energy projects in the face of growing power demands.

By GREG VINE

ROYALSTON – One of the first to announce his candidacy in the Town Election is Chris Deveneau, running to fill the unexpired term of Selectboard member Shelby Bronnes, who announced her resignation earlier this year and attended her last board meeting on Feb. 18.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

With the House gearing up for a potential legal battle over Question 1, Auditor Diana DiZoglio is trying to attach new urgency to her monthslong request that Attorney General Andrea Campbell intervene or allow her to seek outside counsel.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Two Franklin county and North Quabbin towns have received awards from the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) for their annual town reports. Leyden and Phillipston earned second and third place, respectively, for their 2023 reports. 

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – During a recent visit to the Athol High School Family & Community Center and Food Pantry, U.S. Rep. James McGovern addressed the recent federal spending freeze that had so many concerned about the future.

By SCOTT MERZBACH, ALEXA LEWIS, CHRIS LARABEE and ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

The vague language in the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funding prompted “chaos” and “confusion” among organizations dependent upon the trillions of dollars potentially impacted.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to increase state funding for local road and bridge projects also overhauls the way those dollars are distributed, and includes major boosts for smaller and rural communities with smaller property tax bases but more road miles to care for.

By GREG VINE

ATHOL – The Selectboard has approved a taxi/livery license for Baldwinville resident William Ladeau’s business, Central Area Transport.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and EMILEE KLEIN

With two cases of bird flu having been confirmed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, local health officials are issuing advisories and at least one Franklin County farm is taking measures to protect its poultry.

By GREG VINE

ROYALSTON – Voters at this year’s Town Election will have one more seat to fill on the Selectboard than originally anticipated.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON – Auditor Diana DiZoglio is returning to old fights in the new year, including reforming the use of non-disclosure agreements in state government, potentially suing the Legislature for defying a new voter law, and accusing top Democrats of retaliation by cutting her office’s role on a health care board.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Concerned about negative public perception of the Legislature, House Speaker Ron Mariano pledged Wednesday at the start of the new session that his chamber will consider a “number of rules reforms” in February.He also warned his colleagues the state...

By GREG VINE

PETERSHAM – Voters are invited to kick off the New Year by attending a Special Town Meeting this Saturday afternoon.They’ll be deciding on a three-article warrant when the meeting gets underway at 2 p.m. at Town Hall. At the 2024 Annual Town Meeting,...