ATHOL – Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey visited Athol High School Thursday, where she toured manufacturing and robotics classrooms associated with the school’s Innovation Career Pathways Program as ...

A man from Puerto Rico was sentenced to prison on Wednesday in connection to a child rape case in Athol back in 2023.

Governor Healey’s first stop was at Athol High School where she joined Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler on a tour of their robotics classrooms. She also announced new funding for the ...

Athol and his sister Glenda won ballroom dancing prizes together. (In “Master Harold,” it is the Black characters who are the dancers.) He studied automobile mechanics in high school and then ...

ATHOL – Katalin Krieger is one of four people currently in the race to fill two seats on Athol’s Selectboard.

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...

It was Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost playwright and the great chronicler of his country’s apartheid past. There he was, sipping a cup of coffee like any ordinary person. I plucked up ...

This is another team that, at times, played a little better than its final record indicated. Guard Sasha Kaplenko led the way ...

While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation. Born in Middelburg, South Africa ...

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ever playwright, has died. He was 92. According to AP, the South ...