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Junior Emma Cormier (left) netted three goals against Old Rochester and a penalty stroke against Uxbridge. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe StaffHere are the notable performances this past week from high school field hockey players competing in Eastern Mass. conferences/leagues. Emma Cormier, Somerset Berkley — With three goals against Old Rochester on Monday and a key penalty stroke goal in Saturday’s 5-5 draw with Uxbridge, the junior was impactful for the No. 9 Blue Raiders. Audrey Heath, Swampscott — The senior scored six goals over three games: a hat trick against Saugus (5-1 win), two goals against Danvers in a 3-3 tie, and a goal vs. Peabody in a 9-1 romp. Abbey Pompei, King Philip — A third-quarter goal by the senior proved to be the game-winner for the No. 10 Warriors in a 2-1 victory, the program’s first over Franklin since 2018. Halle Tisbert, Andover — The junior had five goals for the No. 8 Golden Warriors, including a hat trick Monday in a 5-1 Merrimack Valley Conference win over Chelmsford.

Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding has launched a comedy writing prize in the name of her most famous creation, aimed at unearthing funny new voices from the north of England. The Bridget Jones prize for northern comedy writing will go to the funniest self-contained, first-person prose of 1,000 words. The format echoes the anonymous diary columns in the Independent that first brought Bridget to readers in the mid-1990s. Fielding, who grew up in Yorkshire, wrote the original columns and four Bridget Jones novels, as well as co-writing the blockbuster film adaptations starring Renée Zellweger. She said Bridget’s humour was drawn from the people she grew up with: “laughing together at our mess-ups; bringing the fancy and pretentious down to earth”. “There are lots of famous northern comics,” she said. “But this prize is for the comic voices of people who aren’t famous: just living their lives being quietly hilarious.”Writers living in the north who have neither been published nor signed with an agent are eligible to enter.

Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding (right) alongside film star Renée ZellwegerBridget Jones author Helen Fielding has launched a new prize aimed at discovering funny diary writers from the north of England, saying opportunities across the UK are "very uneven". West Yorkshire-born Fielding, who penned Bridget's famous diary as well co-writing the film adaptations, has set up the Bridget Jones Prize with charity New Writing North. The award will go to the person who submits the funniest 1,000-word piece of first-person writing. Speaking at an event for the Independent, which first published Bridget's diary in 1995, Fielding said the spread of opportunity for writing in the UK is "very uneven", adding: "There's much more opportunity in the south than in the north, where I grew up. "The winner of the new prize - set to run for an initial three years from 2027 to 2029 - will receive a £2,000 prize and a package of writing support from Fielding's literary agents and New Writing North. Fielding's original newspaper column went on to be published as a best-selling novel titled Bridget Jones's Diary in 1996.

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The Pilgrim Monument is part of the historic district in Provincetown, a town where local control desires and state government realities sometimes collide. Sen. Julian Cyr of Provincetown said his district sends more home rule requests before the Legislature than any other part of the state. (Ruth H Curtis on Unsplash) On issue after issue, Democrats who control the Legislature are publicly apoplectic about the sharp shift in values and governing approaches under complete Republican control at the federal level. Though they are more circumspect about it, municipal officials in Massachusetts are also feeling disempowered by their state partners while the vise of property tax restrictions, swelling inflation and budgets, and limited increases in local aid is tightening on cities and towns.

Stream New York's #1 news - AccuWeather - original content 24/7Friday, October 23, 2026 8:31AMMASPETH, Queens (WABC) -- A 6-year-old girl is recovering in the hospital after she was struck by falling bricks while playing outside in Maspeth. The incident happened just after 7:30 p.m. Thursday near 56-61 59th Ave. Police said a chunk of bricks fell from a building and hit the child while she was outside playing. She was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. Video from the scene shows a small pile of bricks on the sidewalk. It appears part of a brick broke away from the building and came crashing down. The city's Department of Buildings responded and is investigating. Inspectors were seen taking photos of the building as part of their investigation. Police officers also searched the sidewalk with flashlights as they worked to determine what caused the debris to fall. The Department of Buildings is expected to evaluate the structural integrity of the building as the investigation continues.