A 20-year-old man from Gloucester, Massachusetts, made his lifelong dream come true on Sunday — conquering the greasy pole, ...

Sunday marked the last day of the Italian Feast in Springfield. And it's no Italian celebration without the grease pole ...

Five-time defending Sunday greasy pole champion Derek Hopkins came about as close as you can get to another victory on his first competitive round attempt at this year’s farewell Fiesta ...

Gloucester greasy pole competition, where participants take turns running down a greased pole to capture a flag before ...

A 45-foot long telephone pole, dripping with grease, juts off a pier 200 feet off Gloucester’s Pavilion Beach and people just can’t wait to run it.

Today’s Social Rundown features a ladder of humans trying to climb a greasy pole for prizes, a non-profit reaching a ...

Sunday was the last day of the festival’s greasy pole competition, also being held on Friday and Saturday. Unlike Friday and Saturday’s editions, which featured contestants selected in the months ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The grease pole competition will return to the city of Springfield for the first time in more ...

The world-famous greasy pole contest started Friday at St. Peter's Fiesta in Gloucester. Videos of contestants attempting to scamper across a slippery 45-foot telephone pole that juts out over ...

Joe DaSilva fell during the greasy pole competition at Pavilion Beach on Sunday. GLOUCESTER — As a thick fog rolled over Gloucester Harbor, a man in a white T-shirt stepped out onto a 40-foot ...

The greasy pole contest is a major part of St. Peter's Fiesta. The weekend-long event is scheduled on the weekend closest to the feast day of St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen.