AYER — After police seized 162 animals on her property in February, a 77-year-old woman was arraigned on over two dozen counts of animal cruelty in Ayer District Court on Monday, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. In collaboration with Ayer Police Chief Brian Gill and the MSPCA, Ryan’s office confirmed that Ruth Maxant-Schulz, […]
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Housing families in state-funded shelters in Mass. can cost taxpayers $300 a night
Nightly rates to house homeless families in hotels and motels can run hundreds of dollars, with agencies often baking in the cost of food and supportive services into the bill they hand to the state, according to contracts reviewed by the Herald.
Earthquake felt in Massachusetts: Boston researchers have quake warning system ‘on our radar’
Earthquake felt in Massachusetts: Boston researchers have quake warning system ‘on our radar’
Massachusetts housing department approved four no-bid contracts for migrant shelter crisis
Massachusetts’ statewide housing agency inked at least four no-bid contracts in the past year to stand up services at state-run emergency shelters amid an influx of migrants, including a $6.8 million deal with a Cape Cod cab company to provide free transportation to shelter residents.
Groton-Dunstable override defeated
GROTON — Voters in Groton and Dunstable soundly rejected a proposed Proposition 2½ tax limit override, leaving their Select Boards and the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee facing a hard deadline of June 30 to have new fiscal 2025 budgets approved.
Coward! Steward Health CEO dodges Senate hearing
A chair for Steward Health CEO Ralph de la Torre was notably vacant during the Senate’s hearing on the catastrophic financial mismanagement of the company’s Massachusetts hospitals and growing precarious role of private equity in healthcare Wednesday.
