BOSTON — The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced over $1 million in grants to support tree planting and expand the urban forest canopy in Gateway Cities across Massachusetts. Seven projects are receiving awards through the GGCP’s Non-Profit Partnership Grant Program, which includes projects in Leominster, Fitchburg and Lowell. In addition, six municipalities, two non-profit organizations, and […]
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Food rules the day at the Lowell Folk Festival
LOWELL — A little after 10 a.m. Saturday, the preparations for another day of the Lowell Folk Festival had begun with about two hours to go until the official start time of Day 2. Stage techs could be heard setting up and checking the sound equipment for the second day’s musical acts, volunteers bustled around making sure everything was squared away and, most importantly, a faint, smoky haze loomed over Downtown Lowell as groups fired up their grills to start making another day’s worth of food from around the world.
Sharks reportedly taking striped bass from fishermen, Cape Cod researchers tag shark near whale carcass off Scituate
Sharks reportedly taking striped bass from fishermen, Cape Cod researchers tag shark near whale carcass off Scituate, coyote spotted attacking a seal
Appreciation: Jack Connors was a quiet hero of Boston
“If all the people he helped came together, you’d need Fenway Park to hold them all,” said Joe Nolan, a friend for decades. “If a guy needed a car, Jack would show up with one. He did one good deed after another.”
A Massachusetts prison guard was reportedly ‘knocked unconscious’: ‘Enough is enough’
A Massachusetts prison guard was reportedly ‘knocked unconscious’: ‘Enough is enough’
Karen Read back on trial Jan. 27, all original charges remain for now
Karen Read will be retried in January of next year, her trial judge ruled today.
