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HADLEY – With two outs, the game-tying runs on second and third and the go-ahead runner standing at the plate, the Athol softball team held its collective breath as Maddi Hermes hit a high fly to center field, hoping for the ball to find the...

HADLEY – With two outs, the game-tying runs on second and third and the go-ahead runner standing at the plate, the Athol softball team held its collective breath as Maddi Hermes hit a high fly to center field, hoping for the ball to find the...

HADLEY – With two outs, the game-tying runs on second and third and the go-ahead runner standing at the plate, the Athol softball team held its collective breath as Maddi Hermes hit a high fly to center field, hoping for the ball to find the...

NORTH BROOKFIELD — Months after the local School Committee voted to ditch the schools Indian mascot, voters in a non-binding referendum said they want to adopt the "American Indian Chief" as a symbol for the entire town. Late last year, the School Committee spent hours listening to testimony from indigenous people who said that despite assertions that the mascot honored Native Americans, they found it offensive and hurtful. The committee agreed to develop a new mascot. Mondays town-wide v...