ATHOL - The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has announced that Daniel Shays Highway will be closed Monday, Jan. 27, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning to complete barrier ... Read More

Moments before a Danvers resident appeared ready to end his own life on the morning of Jan. 1, a Shutesbury police sergeant located the man's vehicle parked off Route 202 and engaged in a conversation ... Read More

Massachusetts State Troopers helped save an injured owl after it was stuck by a vehicle. On New Year's Day, Troopers Mathew Buscanera and Sean Mucci were called to reports of an injured owl on Route ... Read More

I probably drove the car a hundred times back and forth on the route between Lexington, Massachusetts ... 60 miles from Lexington to Athol, where I'd then get on the curvy Route 202. The bulk of Route ... Read More

A section of Route 202 in New Salem was shut down following a head-on crash resulting in a car fire Friday evening. New Salem Police told 22News Route 202 was closed from the Shutesbury town line ... Read More

SHUTESBURY - A serious car crash temporarily closed a stretch of Route 202 late Tuesday night, but the driver involved in the incident was virtually unscathed, according to a Massachusetts State ... Read More

RINDGE - An 18-year-old Winchendon, Mass., man died in a two-vehicle crash on Route 202 Friday night. Jose E. Freitas Jr., a driver of one of the vehicles involved in the crash, succumbed to ... Read More