Spear also added he’s encouraging people to be neighborly and mindful of others in your community, including pets and veterans.

In the spring of 2020, schools shut down entirely, adopting a remote learning model before shifting to hybrid learning for the 2021 school year and eventually returning to in-person learning full-time in 2022.

It comes after neighbors reached out to our newsroom, concerned over a lack of trash pickup.

Stocks on Monday officially entered a bear market, when the S&P 500 dropped four percent.

Huntington's Department of Public Works is worried they won’t have enough money from the state to pay for things like road construction and repairing potholes.

Interim Chief William Gordon told Western Mass News that the department responds to anywhere from 27-32 thousand calls of service per year. Gordon said these calls are part of the department’s regular routine.

A jury found the Greenfield Police Department discriminated against a black officer, but the chief remains on the payroll. Now, city councilors are cutting the department’s budget to send a message.

A concerned parent reached out to our newsroom after a student brought a BB gun inside her daughter’s school.

Gas prices in the Bay State are now averaging $5 a gallon and we’ve learned there’s a new effort among state legislators to suspend the state gas tax through the summer.