News

Researchers at the National Zoning Atlas spent several years poring over every zoning code in Massachusetts to determine precisely what can be built where in this state.
Daniel Anthony O’Connor III, of Groton, Massachusetts, passed away on July 2, 2025, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was 74.Born in Troy, New York in 1951, Daniel led an ...
Jennifer Cromack discovered a lost 1847 anti-slavery resolution by New England ministers in the American Baptist archive in Groton, Massachusetts.
GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in ...
Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery document had been lost forever after fruitless searches at Harvard and ...
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery. The 5-foot-long ...
The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.
Fireworks were banned in 1943 as a World War II measure. Massachusetts Department of Fire Services also says that fireworks are illegal in the state because they are dangerous.