Franklin Tech plan draws concerns over cost

Eric Wirth of Athol to travel to India via Fulbright-Nehru Award

Eric Wirth of Athol, director of global partnerships at UMass Amherst, has been selected for a Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award. This fall, Wirth will travel to Delhi, Pune, and Hyderabad to study India's rapidly growing higher education system.

Partial demolition done to building at 339 Main St. in Athol

A partial demolition of a building at 339 Main St. in Athol was completed last week following reports of a wall bowing and bricks falling. Owned by Woodland Realty Trust, the structure formerly housed the Mix & Match store. Engineers plan to stabilize the remaining section with a new gable end wall.

My Turn: Denied by Medicare Advantage? The odds say appeal

If you had a nine in ten chance of winning something, wouldn’t you would go for it? Those are odds worth taking. What if it was not only something you wanted, but something you needed, like medically necessary services in a skilled nursing facility? This is the situation many older adults and people with disabilities find […]

My Turn: Get out of my head!

Sometimes I feel like a character in a story I had no part in writing. Everyone around me seems to be inside the same story. To get necessities, I go to a store or shop online with my plastic money. It is recorded, like everyone’s money, as digits in a machine so ever-present it seems […]

Ticket price fight shaping up as referendum on details

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday proposed capping concert and sporting event ticket resale prices, pitching the measure as a way to protect consumers from price gouging and deceptive practices that have made attending live events increasingly expensive and out of the question for many fans.  But even before lawmakers begin to review the […]