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Starting this month, the three Catholic parishes in the North End of New Bedford will unify into one single new parish called St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish.

Teens have been misbehaving and vandalizing things at and around Pope Park in Acushnet. Officials are taking steps to see it doesn't happen again.

Teens have been misbehaving and vandalizing things at and around Pope Park in Acushnet. Officials are taking steps to see it doesn't happen again.

Starting this month, the three Catholic parishes in the North End of New Bedford will unify into one single new parish called St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish.

A flatbed truck loaded with cardboard recycling that caught fire on I-195 in Fall River Thursday took fire crews more than six hours to clear, snarling traffic.

Scott County Supervisor Mark Maxwell says the board wants strengthen the programs they already have and continue building a new facility.

Capitol News Illinois reached out to the Illinois Department of Public Health as to what percentage of individuals who had contracted, been hospitalized or died of COVID-19 were unvaccinated during the June and July surge, but did not receive a response as of this publication. Support Local Journalism WCIA-TV Champaign’s Mark Maxwell reported last week that IDPH said 87 percent of the June COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were in unvaccinated individuals, along with 92 percent of COVID-...

Governor Prtzker leads again. Creating a statewide mask mandate for all K-12 schools is not only the right thing to do until all students have access to covid vaccination, but it’s necessary to prevent the repeated confrontations from the luddites at normally staid school board meetings. Science doesn’t support that mask usage in schools changes the rate for childrens spread. What the data did find was lower the spread to adults working in the school. But at this point in time with vaccine...

Westport Is Getting Richer, But Its Heritage Is Fading The next time youre in Westport, no matter where you are, take a good look around. What was once a countryside filled with locals and easy-going people is now a thriving region of real estate being bought up by rich out-of-towners. Westport is changing and its roots are beginning to fade away. Every square inch of woodland area is being eyeballed by wealthy business folk who are building multimillion dollar properties that are turning ...

RICK PEARSON Chicago Tribune A Republican candidate for Illinois governor said in a weekend TV interview that he would not encourage people to get a COVID-19 vaccination, incorrectly saying the shots were not FDA-approved and had caused thousands of deaths. Gary Rabine, a Bull Valley businessman and ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and conservative causes, said he was not an “anti-vaxxer by any stretch.” But he criticized private businesses and public inst...