Editor's note:This story was originally published in 2021. We are republishing it for the anniversary of the storm on Saturday. The Blizzard of '78 was a catastrophic storm that killed about 100 ...

BROCKTON — It was 47 years ago to the day that a "vicious" nor’easter, described as the worst in memory by public officials, paralyzed the Brockton area, according to The Enterprise reporting on Feb.

When it comes to the long history of martial arts movies, which encompasses more than six decades, there's no year that was better for the genre than 1978. The genre was still relatively young at that ...

Downtown Wilmington in 1978 was in dire straits. Many retail businesses had left or planned to leave to various area shopping centers such as Hanover Center and (by 1979) Independence Mall. Some of ...