FITCHBURG — The city recently announced that the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust has awarded an additional $6,621,582 in loan forgiveness for the city’s ongoing Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) separation and rehabilitation projects, with forgiveness from the Trust now reducing the loan by nearly 40%. Caused in recent years during widespread flooding, CSOs occur when the […]
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Mt. Wachusett CC awarded $5M to support 1st-gen, low-income, students
GARDNER — Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) recently announced they were awarded three U.S. Department of Education TRIO Student Support Services grants totaling $5,066,500 — $1,013,300 annually — to continue to support programs that help low-income students, first-generation college students, and students with disabilities to succeed in college. These grants are awarded every five years […]
Gov. Healey offers plan to offset federal research grant cuts
The Bay State will attempt to bridge the economic divide caused by the federal government’s sudden seeming aversion to paying for scientific research with research funding of its own.
Bar advocates stand firm against Massachusetts bill that boosts pay by $20 per hour
“I say to you today and to the leadership, we’re going nowhere. Your ridiculous proposal that you put forward yesterday has only strengthened our resolve,” attorney Sean Delaney said at the State House Thursday.
Pan-Mass Challenge riders at the starting line of 186-mile bike-a-thon to fight cancer
Over the weekend thousands of Pan-Mass Challenge riders will come together for a bike-a-thon across 186-miles of Massachusetts — pedaling towards a record goal of $76 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Boston 1-bedroom rents jump, remain 3rd highest in U.S.
One-bedroom rent costs jumped in Boston in July, as national prices remained mostly steady, according to a new report.
