Researchers have discovered that fish use the pituitary gland in their brains to directly "see" daylight, which explains how ...

Michael Flye, president of the Phillipston Historical Society, was awarded the Alphonse W. Chartier, Sr. Public Service Award during a ceremony at Phillipston Congregational Church. Flye was ...

Things are going to look quite different for the Mahar Regional boys basketball team this winter. With so many players graduating, the Senators essentially promoted its entire junior varsity team to ...

My sister said to me recently, “Kiffer, I don’t ever wish someone ill health or worse but I wish the cholesterol intake of a ...

Coach Francis Phillps speaks to the Mahar girls basketball team at a preseason practice, Tuesday in Orange. Credit: ADAM HARGRAVES / Staff Photo Sign up for the Athol Daily News' morning newsletter ...

Sublime Systems has paused work on its low-carbon cement plant in Holyoke and plans to cut its workforce by 10% due to the Trump administration's cancellation of an $87 million grant.

Voters at a Special Town Meeting in Phillipston approved borrowing $10.8 million to replace the roof at Narragansett Regional ...

On Sunday, Dec. 7, the lighting of the Memory Tree was held in Phillipston on the Town Common, hosted by the Phillipston Historical Society. Each light on the tree represents a person whom friends and ...

High school students would take end-of-course tests designed, administered and scored by the state under new graduation ...

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $524,000 to Ralph C. Mahar Regional School to upgrade its ventilation systems and eliminate its oil usage. MassCEC officials toured the school on ...

Athol Police Sgt. Jarrett Mousseau has been chosen as the department's new police chief, succeeding current Chief Craig Lundgren, and will officially assume his new duties on Jan. 9, pending contract ...