“The towns (are) joining together in an unprecedented way to speak as one voice to the MWRA (Massachusetts Water Resources ...

Though it’s located in Western and Central Massachusetts, most of the water from the Quabbin Reservoir flows to the Boston ...

to when the state created the enormous Quabbin Reservoir. A bill before the legislature would increase the annual compensation to the towns around the reservoir for sacrifices they've made in ...

The Enfield Overlook in Ware, Massachusetts, with a view of what used to be the town of Enfield and is now part of the Quabbin Reservoir. In the early 1900s, four western Massachusetts towns ...

A social media post about Boston's water winning a taste contest alerted the Western Massachusetts legislator to the fact that residents of Greater Boston had no idea where their water came from ...

Six cents for four towns? A State House book talk this week offered an interesting tale of the four towns that state government took and flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir -- and it also lent ...

Even though located at the edge of the Quabbin Reservoir that provides drinking water for millions of residents in and around ...

one of four towns flooded nearly a century ago to create the Quabbin Reservoir. The pieces might have been lost forever were it not for the woman who once owned them, and spared no expense to ...

A State House book talk Wednesday offered an interesting tale of the four towns that state government took and flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir — and it also lent historical context to ...

A recent book about the construction of the reservoir, “Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley Drowned by the Quabbin,” by Elena Palladino, gives a human voice to the decades-long process that ...

In the early 1900s, four western Massachusetts towns disappeared from the map. They were flooded to build the Quabbin Reservoir, which now provides drinking water mostly to Boston and dozens of ...