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Highly active and controversial. That's what many are saying after learning that Eddie Johnson passed away early Father's day morning, after a brief illness.       A few listeners pay tribute to Eddie Johnson. Eddie founded the Citizens Leading Environmental Action Network and the Parting Ways Museum of African American and Cape Verdean American Ethnohistory. He bragged ab...

It's been years in the making, but the mural dedicated to the famed Civil War 54th Regiment was officially unveiled Saturday afternoon.

State education officials say improvements by Hispanic, low-income and non-native English speaking students helped drive up Massachusetts' public high school graduation rate for the seventh consecutive year.   The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Monday that 85 percent of students who entered as ninth-graders in 2009-10, or entered that class at any point, graduated withi