Horace Mann was an American education reformer , and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. […]

Results of the division 1 relays held on Saturday, April 28, at Franklin High School are as follows: The 4 100 placed second with a time of 49.77. Running on the relay was Alison Kaba, Gelynne Berger, Michel-le Meranda and Nicole Genard. […]

An 18-year-old Franklin youth accused of videotaping a hallway assault on a fellow Franklin High School student and briefly posting it online has pleaded not guilty. […]

Middle and high school teachers came to the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Mass., April 17-19, 2012, during school vacation for science, technology, engineering and mathematics training. […]

Police say two students involved in an assault in the hallway at Franklin High School are headed to court. […]

Today, Senator Karen Spilka filed amendments to the Senate fiscal year 2013 budget that will directly benefit MetroWest, including support for the Natick Veterans Oral History Project and Framingham-based Tempo, a resource center helping underprivileged young people become healthy and productive adults. […]

HOLLISTON, Mass. - Republican Marty Lamb announced he has more than enough signatures to appear on the ballot for State Representative district that includes part of Westborough, Southborough, Hopkinton, Holliston and Medway. […]

The critics are out there. It is inefficient some will say. Others say it is boring and the seats are too hard. […]

Needham resident Carmen Fields joins residents from Newton, Brookline, Mansfield, Sharon and Medway in representing Massachusetts' Fourth District in the 2012 Democratic National Convention. […]

The Dover-Sherborn Gridiron Club will hold a "Touch-a-Truck" party at Dover-Sherborn High School on Saturday, May 19 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Children will be able to sit in the driver's seat and play on the following trucks: two fire trucks, a police car, a dump truck, a concrete mixer, a concrete pumper truck, a backhoe, a bulldozer, a . […]

Trooper Mark V. Lemieux of Norfolk, who served on the Bristol County Drug Task Force from 2002 to 2004, appeared in federal court Wednesday to face charges of conspiring to distribute OxyContin and using extortion to collect drug debts, according to the affidavit filed in U.S. District Court. […]

A Overcrowding in state jails is a growing problem , including limited quarters at the Norfolk County Correctional Center , Sheriff Michael Bellotti told theA Boston Globe . […]

But that was not going to stop anyone from hiring the controversial Carl Stanley McGee, the elephant, as the $121,000-a-year "interim" executive director of the new Massachusetts Gaming Commission. […]

The newly appointed interim head of the state gaming commission abruptly resigned Wednesday night, saying that the ''growing distractions'' created by allegations of sexual abuse against him had made it impossible to be effective in the job. […]

Norton had a good-size drop in its unemployment rate in March, according to data released last week by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. […]

A crowd of students came to the King Philip School Committee meeting Monday night to voice their thoughts on recent teacher layoffs. […]

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Medfield had its unemployment rate drop by nearly one percentage point in March, according to recently released data by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. […]

Outside the Harney Academy, an Irish dance school in Walpole, a sign in the front window congratulates Melissa McCarthy on her victory in the World Irish Dancing Championship in Belfast, Ireland. […]