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Austin FC's preseason is underway, and the Verde & Black are scheduled to kickoff regular season games on Feb. 26.

BELCHERTOWN — Both School Committee incumbents retained their seats Monday as voters resoundingly rejected an effort to recall them at a special election.More than three-quarters of Belchertown residents who participated in the election voted to have...

BELCHERTOWN — Two incumbent School Committee members who supported a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students participating in sports and extracurricular activities last fall are facing a recall election Monday.Michael Knapp and Diane Brown will both...

More trades and physical outliers this January

An Infiniti collided with another vehicle, went off Olympic Parkway and caught fire Sunday night

A new president of Maryland’s Montgomery College will be announced Friday afternoon, school officials said.

Rosenstengel WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack must not spend money from a debt forgiveness program that excludes white farmers and ranchers, federal judges in Florida and Texas ruled.  District Judge Marcia Howard of Jacksonville enjoined payments on June 23, and District Judge Reed O’Connor of Forth Worth did the same on July 1.  O’Connor also certified a national class action, an order which could affect a suit pending before Chief U.S. Distri...

First published on Mon 31 May 2021 23.13 EDT New Zealand’s rare, highly endangered alpine parrots may have headed for the mountains to avoid people – and researchers say their adaptability could help them survive the climate crisis. The kea is considered the only alpine parrot in the world. But scientists analysing DNA sequencing and fossil records have found kea were once present in other parts of the country. The news is something of a knock to the kea’s internationally unique ...

feed to stay on top of the news. Agriculture might seem harmless enough, but hunting (especially in response to keas interfering with human property) led the government to put a bounty on the birds beaks for about a century. By the time this practice ended in 1970, New Zealand’s Department of Conservation estimated that about 100,000 kea were killed — leaving just 3,000 to 7,000 in the country.  “Again, is that what got them completely out of the lower zone, that they would just be sho...

The world's only mountain parrot adapted over time to steer clear of people, a study has found.