News Headlines for Ashburnham, Massachusetts

Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts plan Lowell membership drive for Sept. 27 (Lowell Sun)
LOWELL -- The new Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts will hold a membership drive Sunday, Sept. 27, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Western Avenue Artist Studios, 122 Western Ave., Lowell. The Scouts are looking for girls in grades kindergarten through 12.

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Cuko helps Massachusetts defeat Holy Cross, 45-42 (Boston Globe)
Armando Cuko kicked a 42-yard field goal as time expired to lift the University of Massachusetts to a thrilling 45-42 victory over Holy Cross on Saturday.

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Route 8 closed at Massachusetts line (Republican-American)
State Police closed Route 8 northbound in Winsted around 1:30 p.m. after a traffic accident just over the state line in Massachusetts. Police will be diverting travelers attempting to drive north on Route 8 near Northwestern Connecticut Community College toward Colebrook. It is not known how long the road will be closed.

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Ballot question on gay marriage in Massachusetts (Republican-American)
BOSTON — Attorney General Martha Coakley on Monday authorized a ballot question proposing to reinstate a nearly century old law barring out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts, according to The Associated Press.

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Westfield High School gymnastics seeks repeat of 2007 Western Massachusetts championship (The Republican)
Patriots fans take notice. "Every year we've won Western Mass., the Patriots have won the Super Bowl," Westfield coach Joanne Hewins said after the Bombers won the 2007 Western Massachusetts Championships and before Super Bowl XLII.

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Tropical Storm Hanna has Massachusetts in its sights (Boston Herald)
Tropical Storm Hanna is bearing down on the Eastern seaboard and preparing to wallop Massachusetts with wind and rain, and emergency officials expect some flooding but minimal...

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Massachusetts boy dies after injury (Sports Illustrated)
HOLLISTON, Mass. (AP) -- A Holliston High School football player has died after being struck in the chest during a full contact scrimmage.

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Massachusetts Braces For Hanna (FOX 25 Boston)
Tropical Storm Hanna is on the way and Massachusetts is preparing. FOX25's Adam Pellerin has more on how people across the region are bracing for Hanna.

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This could only happen in Massachusetts, believe it or not (Boston Globe)
Massachusetts was a perfectly normal place, right up until about 10,000 years ago when the first people arrived. Then things started getting weird. Certainly nature left unique marks on the land, such as the water-carved marble of Natural Bridge in North Adams, which was once under a shallow ocean, or Balance Rock in Pittsfield State Forest, a boulder left precariously ...

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Massachusetts governor requests disaster aid for shellfishermen after red tide outbreak (Canadian Business)
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is requesting federal disaster aid for shellfishermen hurt by this year's red tide outbreaks. Between April and July, high levels of the toxic algae closed more than 600,000 acres of shellfish areas between the North Shore and Cape Cod.

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