North Brookfield

The town common in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, will once again be adorned in rainbows, celebrating love and the LGBTQ+ community in the annual Small Town Pride celebration. “Small Town Pride tries to offer, like, big city experiences for the rural areas,” said Rural Justice Network President Rob Orpilla. After two years in West Brookfield, the Rural Justice Network got approval…

A small town will celebrate the LGBTQ community again after two years of fights.

The town of North Brookfield, Massachusetts, has agreed to “refrain from future interference and alter permitting process” after it was sued for trying to block this year’s Small Town Pride, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Two members of the select board unlawfully blocked a permit for the June 29 event because it included a drag show,…

A woman is dead after a snowmobile crash in the town of Milan, New Hampshire on Friday. New Hapshire Fish & Game says multiple agencies responded to a report of a woman suffering serious injuries after a snowmobile crash at around 4:30 p.m. on Primary Trail 109. According to authorities, the woman, identified as 39-year-old Shawnee Hollis of North Brookfield,…

Today: Dry, increasing sun, highs in the mid to upper 80s. Tuesday: Few Showers and isolated thunderstorms through Western Mass. Highs near 86°.

It was a very busy Sunday across New England with widespread heavy rainfall, flooding, and even an EF-0 tornado in North Brookfield. The tornado had wind speeds around 85 mph and lasted about 3 minutes. As the tornado threat diminished, the instances of heavy rain and flash flooding increased. Widespread 1 to 2 inch rain totals were observed. Isolated 3…

The tornado touched down just before 11 a.m. in North Brookfield, west of Worcester, and had a path of 2 miles in length and 250 yards, estimated about 80 miles per hour as it whirled through the area. There were no injuries or damage to homes reported.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF-0 tornado touched down in central Massachusetts on Sunday morning. The tornado touched down just before 11 a.m. in North Brookfield, west of Worcester, and had a path of 2 miles in length and 250 yards, estimated about 80 miles per hour as it whirled through the area. There were no injuries…

A Pride celebration that includes a drag performance scheduled for a small Massachusetts town has the proper authority to take place as originally planned, the town’s lawyer wrote in a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, ending weeks of uncertainty about the event. The clarification Friday from a lawyer for the town of North Brookfield came two days...

The North Brookfield select board had voted 2-1 at its April 11 meeting to pull permission.