Raegan Loughrey

Raegan Loughrey Journalist & Communications professional based in New England. UMass Amherst grad 2020

A very pink, very girls’ girl kind of Saturday. 🎀💗🍷✨ Two besties at an event by BADDIE BESTIES PODCAST… safe to say we w...
09/20/2026

A very pink, very girls’ girl kind of Saturday. 🎀💗🍷✨ Two besties at an event by BADDIE BESTIES PODCAST… safe to say we were exactly where we belonged. 💅🏼👯‍♀️

Such a fun day at the Pause Festival with Stacy Sirkissoon- Duquette, surrounded by so many amazing women and incredible women-owned businesses and vendors. Basically a girls’ girl dream. 💗

We had VIP, which made the day even better — goodie bags filled with goodies (including free Kendra Scott jewelry 💎), custom embroidered makeup bags, finding our perfect color matches at Delta, making our own custom perfumes, and getting to write letters to our besties. Naturally, Stacy and I wrote ours to each other. 🥹💌

There was SO much to do, too. They even had yoga and other workout classes, plus facials! We didn’t get a chance to try those ourselves, but I loved that they were part of the experience. 🧘🏻‍♀️🧖🏻‍♀️✨

And I have to give a special shoutout to the nonalcoholic w**e. 🍷🤰🏻 I’ve tried a few NA options since being pregnant, and this was the first one that actually tasted like w**e. Baby and I finally got to participate in girls’ w**e day. 😂

One of my favorite parts was getting to watch Kayla Burton on the panel. Going from working alongside Kayla at Western Mass News to sitting in the audience watching her shine and share her perspective as a woman working in professional sports was such a full-circle moment. So proud of her and everything she’s doing. 🏀🏈🎤

And we got to keep the little Western Mass News reunion going after the event with dinner with — who’s now reporting in Boston, but will forever also be my old Pure Barre buddy from before she moved away. 🥹🍽️💗 So fun getting the girls back together, even if just for a night.

Pink everywhere, perfume made, makeup bags embroidered, bestie letters exchanged, bags full of goodies, and a whole lot of women supporting women. The Baddie Besties understood the assignment. 💅🏼🎀✨

09/19/2026

For some, The Big E is a tradition they’ve grown up with. 🎡🎟️🍟 For others, opening day was their very first time taking it all in.

I caught up with fairgoers on both ends of the spectrum today — from Connecticut teens who have been coming since they were little, to a group of women who traveled from Rhode Island for their first-ever trip to The Big E.

Different generations, different experiences… and maybe a few new traditions in the making. 🎠🥔🍎✨

Here’s my full story from opening day

09/18/2026

Just another normal day at the office. 😂🎡🎤💻

Big E Eve: a day in the life of a local TV news reporter and her photographer the day before the gates open 🎡🎢🎟️🎠🎤🦮
09/18/2026

Big E Eve: a day in the life of a local TV news reporter and her photographer the day before the gates open 🎡🎢🎟️🎠🎤🦮

09/18/2026

Could Big E traffic possibly get any worse? We’re about to find out. 🎡🚗

The gates open tomorrow for the 108th edition of The Big E—marking the first opening day since MassDOT’s “road diet” project reduced travel lanes on Memorial Avenue to make room for bike paths and a center turn lane.

Eastern States Exposition President and CEO Eugene Cassidy fears the new layout could create the biggest traffic jam in the fair’s history. Officials are urging visitors to leave early or consider the new PVTA shuttle from Union Station.

09/16/2026

In case you missed it live last night at 6 p.m. — here’s my full story on Massachusetts’ new push to address gaps in maternal mental health care. 🤰🤰🏻🤰🏼🤰🏽🤰🏾🤰🏿

In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Gov. Maura Healey announced a multi-million-dollar effort to bring more support directly to new moms, including a proposed $2 million expansion of the “Welcome Family” program, which would offer every new parent in Massachusetts a free, voluntary home visit from a nurse.

I also spoke with the CHD Griswold Center about the growing need for maternal mental health services here in Western Massachusetts, the stigma that can keep new moms from asking for help and how local providers are working to expand perinatal care and support.

The goal: making sure no mother has to navigate the challenges of a new baby alone. 🤍

09/08/2026

23 years ago Sergeant Gregory Belanger was killed in Iraq.

09/05/2026

‘Unfair’: Ludlow father frustrated over $250 school bus fee policy ⬇️

09/04/2026

Part one of my two-part series on endometriosis 💛

Stories like this remind me why I wanted to become a journalist in the first place. While I do not have endometriosis myself, women’s healthcare, being believed, and advocating for better care are issues I care deeply about.

Here in part one, I’m taking a closer look at Massachusetts’ new Endometriosis Task Force — why advocates say it’s needed, what they hope it will change, and why so many women are still waiting years for answers.

A huge thank you to Amanda Berg for trusting me with your story and being so open about your experience, and to The Endometriosis Alliance of Massachusetts for the work you’re doing to educate and advocate for the endometriosis community here in Massachusetts.

Part two will take a deeper look at why endometriosis can be so difficult to diagnose, why debilitating period pain has historically been normalized, and why experts say there are still major gaps in how the disease is understood and treated.

As of right now, part two is slated to air September 8th. I’ll keep you all posted once I know exactly what time it’s scheduled to air. 💛

09/02/2026

South Hadley voters have decided the fate of a $3.5 million tax override that town leaders say is needed to prevent deep cuts—but some residents fear the added cost could make it harder to remain in their homes. Polls closed at 8 p.m. Western Mass News will bring you the results as soon as they come in.

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