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Family was poor and lived in the middle of nowhere and the chances of them coming together as leaders of the world was you know . And they realized that and said Something Special happen to me, you and Something Special brought us together. And i think one thing i should have added that maybe people were right and the house was haunted. What happened there was so extraordinary and in a way so mysterious and so extra worldly that, you know, maybe they are right, maybe it is a ghost house or haunt...

Hugo is now in the care an emergency foster, according Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter.

Many requests come from Massachusetts, where inflation has made health care increasingly unaffordable.

In July, the Republican governor signed a bill protecting and expanding abortion access in Massachusetts. Read more at Boston.com.

The Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts, a Holden-based abortion fund, is among 11 community-based organizations across the commonwealth selected to split $4.1 million in state funding to improve reproductive healthcare, including access to abortion. 

Reproductive rights advocates in Massachusetts were devastated, but not surprised, when the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade in June. 

More people started coming from out of state for abortions in 2021.

A few things to do in the Worcester area in the week ahead ....

Roe v. Wade may be gone, but they’ve been building networks, building capacity and putting forward specific legislative asks.

The right to an abortion is codified into Massachusetts law, even if Roe v. Wade gets overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court later this summer.