Field hockey preview: Local teams gear up for a new season

H.S. Roundup: Pioneer girls soccer defeats Franklin Tech in Bi-County match up

NORTHFIELD — Kathleen Pillsbury registered her first win as coach of the Pioneer Valley Regional girls soccer team after the Panthers defeated Franklin Tech, 3-0, on Thursday afternoon. “I thought it was a really good showing for our first game,” Pillsbury said. “Everybody contributed. Everybody played and everybody got in. We saw some places where […]

Homicide suspect shot and killed by law enforcement in Erving, State Police say

A homicide suspect was fatally shot by law enforcement at the French King Restaurant & Motel in Erving on Wednesday night during an investigation.

Winchendon resident expands Sept. 11 remembrance effort for 25th anniversary

WINCHENDON – Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Winchendon resident James Pelletier is expanding his longtime remembrance effort, with public-access television stations across Massachusetts set to broadcast a recording of the names of the 2,977 victims. Stations serving Athol and Orange, Ashburnham and Westminster, Dracut, Fall River, Fitchburg, Gardner, Greenfield, Hubbardston, Leominster, Lunenburg, […]

‘Eerie being in New York City at that time’

Millions of Americans were watching Katie Couric and Matt Lauer on the “Today” show on Sept. 11, 2001. Amherst firefighter-paramedic Joshua Shanley was one of them. He had just finished an overnight shift and was having breakfast and coffee in the Connecticut apartment of his then-girlfriend (now his wife) when he saw that an airliner had […]

Sportsman's Corner: Knowledge is power

In 2024, the Massachusetts Legislature took sweeping action that clearly is a challenge to the right of Massachusetts citizens to legally own firearms. That ownership is a fundamental constitutional right which has limits under existing Massachusetts laws. It is this writer’s opinion that Chapter 135, that hastily written bill that created and passed the last […]