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Outdoor enthusiast Eliot Goodwin offering classes on skills needed at DCR’s Camp Nihan Education Center. 

The defending state boys’ and girls’ champions will be challenged on the Prospect Mountain course at Tuesday’s state final. 

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urlingtonPolice K-9 Havoc served his last shift on Feb. 15 after 10 years with the department. 

The former three-year captain lives in South Boston, still plays ball, and is an international consultant for Explorica. 

Last November, the Carlisle resident learned that she was one of two winners of a national humor writing contest. 

“People say to me, ‘Thank you for writing this, because I cannot talk about it myself,’” said the author of “Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Life and Love.”  

The Newburyport author’s first novel, “Twine,” is “a social commentary on the places I call subrural, characterized by strip malls and Walmarts.” 

As many area families struggle with the high cost of housing, Somerville has taken a new step to stem the tide of evictions. 

More than 120 firefighters from 11 fire departments practiced training drills in the closed mall early this month. 

Senior guard Packy Witkowski of Melrose averaged 28.5 points per game in a pair of wins for the Coast Guard Academy men’s basketball team. 

Their almost 20-year-long relationship focuses on raising scholarship to help young adults in El Ocotillo attain a bachelor’s degree. 

A kind of magic happens in this tourist place where young and old, northerners and southerners, Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals meet. 

An owl is rescued in Burlington, a priest says someone hacked into his payroll checks, an employee in Wellesley is mistaken for a robber, and other odd tales from local police blotters. 

Marshfield’s Liv Creative Cuisine has a very homey, enclosed 30-seat patio with a large wood fireplace and owners who like to use it. 

Patty Levasseur will speak on “The Life History and Conservation of the Diamondback Terrapin,” a once abundant turtle species. 

Brady Rymer and the Little Band that Could will perform two shows at the Concord Conservatory of Music on Saturday, Feb. 29, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. 

Giving Glamorously, the second annual charitable evening benefiting the Lowell Transitional Living Center, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27. 

Elizabeth “Libby” Moore, former chief of staff to Oprah Winfrey, will be the keynote speaker at an intergenerational forum for women at Endicott College on Saturday, Feb. 29. 

Officials said the new policy was prompted by a recognition that for some people, overdue fines are not simply an inconvenience but a financial barrier to using the library.  

Area residents have a chance to hear live performances from nine Boston area rock and jazz bands when the annual North Shore Shelter Fest takes place on Saturday, Feb. 29.  

Jan, a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois, recently joined the Holbrook Police Department as its youngest, and furriest, member. 

Town Administrator Tom Mayo told selectmen at their Feb. 11 meeting that he would award the 10-year operating contract to SUEZ. 

Despite its rejection by Town Meeting, Dedham’s recreation director said his board will continue to look for ways to build a recreation complex on town-owned land known as Manor Fields. 

Flaherty, who had been acting chief since Frederick Ryan retired in January 2019, was appointed to the permanent position by Town Manager Adam Chapdelaine. 

Joseph C. Hicks, who has served as chief for nearly four years, recently announced his plan to retire on March 8.  

From a former governor to a local music star to a police dog, Jane Alpert Bouvier has interviewed them all. 

On the North Shore, four communities claim to be a nexus where brave citizens first organized into fighting units that later evolved into branches of the US military.  

The 6-foot-9 Watertown native remains the only Brandeis player to net 1,000 career points and rebounds. 

The St. Mary’s grad is a five-time conference Rookie of the Week for the Gulls, ranked 21st in Division 3.