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HAWLEY — Residents adopted all but one of the 25 warrant articles at Annual Town Meeting on Monday.Thirty of the town’s 260 registered voters convened at the Town Office to have their voices heard on issues ranging from the omnibus budget to the...

BOSTON — The commission put together to study the racial implications of the Massachusetts state seal and motto has voted unanimously to recommend that both be replaced.The Special Commission on the Official Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth, made up...

The commission put together to study the racial implications of the Massachusetts state seal and motto has voted unanimously to recommend that both be replaced.

The current seal that appears on state flags features a Native American beneath a colonist's arm brandishing a sword.

BOSTON (AP) -- The commission put together to study the racial implications of the Massachusetts state seal and motto has voted unanimously to recommend

A change that's been brewing for decades is one step closer to becoming reality.

Moswetuset Hummock, 2020. [Mark Jarzombek] My wife and I, as relative newcomers to Massachusetts, decided to immerse ourselves more firmly in local history, and an internet search brought us to a website about Moswetuset Hummock. The next day, we drove to the South Boston shore, parked in a small lot, and walked up the hill. Heavily wooded, the hummock faces the Atlantic, backing into a tidal flat at the mouth of the Neponset River. It is not particularly tall, but despite ongoing efforts to dr...