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  ❤️  Donate Monday, January 12, 2026 ☁️   Partly cloudy, with a high of 39. Good Morning Boston, The New England Patriots will advance to the playoffs' Divisional Round after beating the Los Angeles Chargers 16-3 during  last night's game  in Foxborough. MVP candidate Drake Maye led the team to their first playoff win since 2019.   (Now I understand why  they've been writing songs about him. ) Pats Nation will eagerly watch tonight's matchup between the Texans and Steelers to see who the team will face next. Now, to the news: Running dry:  Nearly 3 million people in eastern Massachusetts rely on the  Quabbin Reservoir  — located just east of Amherst — for their drinking water. But keeping the reservoir clean and healthy falls to those towns surrounding the water. Now, as drought conditions have drained the reservoir, abutting towns want some financial help  — and a seat at the table making decisions about the reservoir, WBUR's Amy ...

  ❤️  Donate Monday, December 22, 2025 ☀️  Sunny, with a high of 32.  Good Morning Boston, The Patriots officially clinched their first playoff appearance in four years with last night's  fourth-quarter comeback win  against the Baltimore Ravens. (In case you went to bed early, you can  watch the highlights here ). Oh how fun it is to drive:   After what was predicted to be record-breaking  Thanksgiving ,  Fourth of July  and  Memorial Day  weekends, AAA is  expecting us to break another travel record  over the end-of-year holiday season. "We're starting to sound like a broken record here," AAA Northeast spokesperson Mark Schieldrop told WBUR's Cici Yongshi Yu. (  Same , Mark.) Over the final two weeks of 2025, more than 2 million road trips are expected to go through Massachusetts, according to AAA. If you're worried about traffic bogging down your holidays, here's when they suggests hitting the road: The b...