Massachusetts
Four high school sports takeaways from a snowy Saturday that saw Nobles name a new football coach – The Boston Globe
A great team win today battling the elements.
Methuen 19- @TritonVikingAD 11
Moves us to 4-2 on the year.Congrats to senior captain Jared Cripps on passing the 200 career points threshold. A great player who continues to make program history. pic.twitter.com/M1fvEIelQL
— MHSRangersLAX (@LaxRangers) April 12, 2025
For the third straight season, Noble & Greenough will have a new football coach. Longtime Governor’s Academy coach Jim O’Leary announced he will be taking over at Nobles after 15 years with the Governors, including 14 as head coach.
O’Leary had announced he was stepping down at Governor’s in November, and now will take over a Nobles team coming off a 7-2 season and a win over Kingswood Oxford in the NEPSAC John Mackay Bowl under coach Mike Curran, who had replaced Rob Murray following a 3-5 campaign in 2023.
O’Leary went 83-37 at Governor’s, winning five ISL championships and three NEPSAC bowl games. He previously coached at Triton.
His son, Peyton, is a wide receiver at Michigan with one more season of eligibility remaining. Another son, Shane, is a graduate student boys’ lacrosse player at Ohio State after playing four seasons at UMass.
I am excited to announce that I am the new Head Football Coach at Noble and Greenough School! I am looking forward to being part of Bulldog Nation. pic.twitter.com/sYXr15IOR5
— Jim OLeary (@CoachONobles) April 12, 2025
North Andover has promoted Dave Duquette to offensive coordinator after he coached both lines for the Knights last season. Previously, Duquette had stops at Burlington, Lowell, Austin Prep, and Andover.
Please welcome Coach Dave Duquette to the KNIGHTS staff.
Coach brings close to 20 years of experience as well as a committed love for the North Andover community!
Coach is excited , eager & can’t wait to get going!
•Burlington HS 2007-2009
-Oline/ Dline
•Lowell 2010-2019 pic.twitter.com/v2o5dcTMi9— NAKnightsftbl (@NAKnightsftbl) April 11, 2025
Billerica senior Nyrah Joseph, a two-time MSTCA pentathlon champion, has committed to run track at UMass Lowell.
Billerica senior Kaylie Govoni announced she will play soccer at Long Island.
Methuen lineman Joshua Najeeullah has committed to play football at Bridgewater State. The 5-foot-9-inch, 250-pound senior played center and nose guard for the Rangers.
Very proud of my guy @JoshuaNajee65 and can’t wait to see what the next 4 years at Bridgewater State University will bring for him. Thanks Coach Ryan and everyone that helped Josh get to this point. Let’s go Bears!!!🏈🏈🏈 pic.twitter.com/NeDNeMIGzZ
— Eddie R. Najeeullah (@ednaj6) April 11, 2025
North Andover held a signing day Friday for several athletes committed to continue playing in college. Jessica Vautour will play softball at Emmanuel, Luke Yorba will play baseball at Westfield State, Trevor Hunter will run track at Saint Anselm, Jake Jackson will play football at RPI, Quinn Bennett will play hockey at Anna Maria, Anya Buyea will dive for Tufts, Niko Catalano will play basketball at Endicott, Trey Kean will play lacrosse at RPI, Nicole Kroon will run cross-country and track at Bryant, Emmett Larosa will run cross-country and track at Central Connecticut State, Dylan Lawrence will play baseball at Bentley, Meg Rozzi will play soccer at Savannah College of Art & Design, Virginia Smith will play field hockey at Plymouth State, Luke Sutera will play football at Endicott, Jack Ventre will swim at Bryant, and Zachary Faro will play baseball at Keene State.
3. Daily lacrosse leaderboard
Jack Balfour, Mashpee, 8
Willy Robinson, Scituate, 6
Avery Valicenti, Archbishop Williams, 6
Quinn Garry, Weston, 5
Maeve Kelly, Medfield, 5
Lexi Davos, Norwell, 4
Kendall Herrick, Medfield, 4
Jayson Kelleher, Bridgewater-Raynham, 4
Izzy Kittredge, Medfield, 4
Joe Ladosci, Weston, 4
Connor O’Neil, Pingree, 4
Balfour, Mashpee, 8
Kelly, Medfield, 8
Kelleher, B-R, 7
Robinson, Scituate, 7
Dominic Matteodo, Mashpee, 6
Clare O’Keefe, Archbishop Williams, 6
Valicenti, Archbishop Williams, 6
Brendan Kurie can be reached at brendan.kurie@globe.com. Follow him on X @BrendanKurie.
SIMSBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — A Massachusetts woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with DUI after a crash in Simsbury, according to police.
The crash happened at around 2:15 p.m. on Hartford Avenue and Elm Street. Police responded to reports that one of the operators of the vehicles was unconscious, later becoming conscious.
Upon arrival, police found that operator, who was identified as 39-year-old Allison Beu of Southwick, Massachusetts, outside of her vehicle and interacting with the other involved parties.
The two occupants in the other vehicle were not transported to the hospital.
Beu was charged with DUI and failure to drive in proper lane.
BOSTON (WWLP) – Following the shooting at Brown University, claiming the lives of two students and injuring nine others, Governor Healey is joining calls for anyone with information to contact authorities.
Police have not yet made any arrests in connection with the shooting, but they have released footage of a person of interest, calling on the public for help.
“At this time, we just have to encourage anyone in the public who may know something, see something, to immediately contact law enforcement,” said Healey.
Governor Healey says the Massachusetts State Police are in Rhode Island to assist with the investigation. The governor also spoke to mounting fear on college campuses, as the number of mass shootings in the United States exceeds the number of days so far in the year.
“In speaking with many of them, I know that they are taking all measures to ensure the safety of students and faculty, and certainly as a state we will do everything that we can to support those efforts,” said Governor Healey.
Local to western Massachusetts, UMass Amherst told 22News about their campus safety plans, which include adding emergency preparedness to student orientation and hosting optional active threat training for students, staff, and faculty.
The FBI is offering an award of up to $50,000 leading to an arrest and conviction. Anyone who thinks they may have information is encouraged to call the Providence Police.
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This week’s jobs report was messy, but it shows cracks in the economy as 2026 looms – The Boston Globe
“We anticipated that once the government reopened there would be a few months of noisy data, and we would not get a real sense of where the jobs market is until early 2026. That is exactly what we got,” Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at corporate advisory firm RSM, wrote in a blog post.
Despite potential statistical distortions from the shutdown, the report underscored that private employers remained stuck in low-fire, low-hire mode in October and November, while unemployment reached the highest rate in four years. Wage growth has stalled.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week, with most officials saying they were more worried about the job market falling apart than inflation heating up. Tuesday’s payroll numbers show their concerns weren’t unfounded:
- The private sector added an average of 60,500 jobs in the past two months, extending a mostly anemic run of hiring, while the federal workforce declined by 168,000 as DOGE-related deferred resignations took effect.
- The jobless rate crept up to 4.6 percent in November from 4.4 percent in September. (The Labor Department didn’t tally unemployment in October due to the 43-day shutdown.)
- The number of people working part time because of economic conditions increased by more than 1 million, or 24 percent, over the past year.
“The labor market is showing growing fragility as firms grapple with uneven demand, elevated costs, [profit] margin pressure and persistent uncertainty,” economists Gregory Daco and Lydia Boussour said in note.
Here are some job trends I’ll be watching as we move into the new year.
Just a few sectors are in hiring mode.
The economy is vulnerable to a downturn when job growth is limited to a few sectors.
Health care and social assistance accounted for most of the new jobs in November, with a smaller gain in construction.
The economically sensitive manufacturing and transportation-warehousing industries lost jobs, as did information and finance, two largely white-collar sectors that are important employers in Massachusetts. (State-level data for November will be published later this month.)
Layoffs are low but will that last?
Employers are moving cautiously as they assess the impact of tariffs on their businesses, the direction of consumer spending, and whether artificial intelligence might allow them to operate with fewer workers.
Because the slowdown in hiring has yet to turn into a wave of firing, unemployment is relatively low by historical standards even after recent increases.
But there are concerning signs.
- The unemployment rate among Black workers climbed to 8.3 percent last month from 6.4 percent a year earlier even as white unemployment was little changed. Black workers are often hit first when hiring slows or layoffs begin.
- Similarly, the jobless rate for workers without a high school diploma has risen to 6.8 percent from 6 percent over the past year, and unemployment among 20-24 year olds is at its highest level (excluding the COVID shock) since 2015, the tail end of the long “jobless recovery” that followed the Great Recession.
Slack is building in the labor market.
The supply of workers is growing — surprising some economists who expected a decline amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and aggressive deportation campaign.
With hiring on the decline, many people are idle or not working as many hours as they would like.
The U-6 unemployment rate — a measure of labor-market slack that counts not only the officially unemployed, but also discouraged workers who’ve stopped looking and people stuck in part-time jobs who want full-time work — jumped to 8.7 percent in November from 8 percent in September. That’s the highest rate since early 2017 (excluding the COVID era).
How does the Fed react?
Last week, Fed chair Jerome Powell said the central bank’s quarter-point cut, plus two others since September, should be enough to shore up hiring while allowing inflation to resume falling toward officials’ 2 percent target.
Most Fed watchers don’t think the latest jobs report alters that view — for now — and are forecasting just two more rate cuts in 2026.
“The report contains enough softness to justify prior rate cuts, but it offers little support for significantly deeper easing ahead,” Kevin O’Neil at Brandywine Global, told Bloomberg.
Final thought
Massachusetts, which has been shedding jobs this year, seems to be leading the way for the rest of the country.
Call me cautiously pessimistic: Things will get worse before they get better.
Larry Edelman can be reached at larry.edelman@globe.com.
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