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By DOMENIC POLI

You’ve possibly known a haunted house to be held in a school or an armory. But how about one inside a 15,000-square-foot Gilded Age brick mansion built for a sewing machine millionaire’s wife and eventually owned by a Masonic sisterhood called the...

The three Quabbin Reservoir Fishing Boat Launch Areas are now open for the 2020 fishing season, and as of Saturday, Aug. 1, visitors can rent boats, motors, canoes and kayaks on a first come, first served basis.According to a notice from the state...

By DOMENIC POLI

ATHOL — Quabbin Valley Healthcare is now in its third month of new ownership.Scott Wheeler and several partners from Blupoint Healthcare purchased the facility at 821 Daniel Shays Highway from Cambridge Healthcare Group on Jan. 1. Wheeler said except...

By JOSHUA SOLOMON

PETERSHAM — The widespread word in the regional recovery community about the substance abuse intensive treatment center at the Quabbin Retreat is last month it “abruptly closed,” but the manager of it, Heywood Healthcare, says the program is merely in...

By DAVID McLELLAN

NEW SALEM — In 1938, four Massachusetts towns bustled with farmers and factory workers along the Swift River. However, in April of that year, Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott all would be disincorporated and drowned in the creation of the Quabbin...

By DOMENIC POLI

When North Quabbin residents get frustrated with the Statehouse politicians and bureaucrats in Boston, sometimes they hint that they’ll shut off the water.But these people aren’t plumbers. They’re alluding to the Quabbin Reservoir, the largest inland...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Fans of the novelist Stephen King, especially those living in Orange, may soon have a conversation starter about their hometown.Hulu, a subscription video-on-demand service, has picked Orange as a filming location for an upcoming...