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Generations of Somerset County residents have told tales of seven devils, a hidden treasure secreted away in the hills of Jenner Township and one man’s attempts to claim the riches
“No one would confuse the current day Legislature with a New England town meeting or an Athenian hillside,” said Secretary of State William F. Galvin, a former lawmaker himself.
A pair of firsts for the Mass House leadership team
Claire Cronin will become the first female majority leader and Kate Hogan will be the first LGBTQ pro tempore, the No. 3 leader
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated February 11, 2021, 4:25 p.m.
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Claire Cronin will become the first female majority leader of the Massachusetts House.Office of Representative Claire D. Cronin
House Speaker Ronald Mariano, who pledged to make the chamberâs leadership more diverse when he was elected six weeks ago, said Thursday he will appoint the chamberâs first female majority leader and, for the first time, an openly LGBTQ member will serve as the chamberâs No. 3 Democrat.
EAU CLAIRE â The COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a difficult final year of service for all three of west-central Wisconsinâs outgoing state legislators, but the frustration felt by Sen. Patty Schachtner was intensely personal.
Not only did Schachtner, a Somerset Democrat, see the dark side of the pandemic daily in her other job as medical examiner for St. Croix County, but this fall the virus hit her family hard.
The toll began with a sister-in-law, brother-in-law, sister and niece testing positive and ended when her father, Richard Rivard, came down with the virus. The 88-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran, who was a resident at Hammond Health Services, died from COVID-19 on Nov. 14.