The New England Patriots are stepping into a new era on Thursday.
The team will take to the field at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, Thursday night for the first time under new leadership.
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Nantucket wind turbine troubles: Solutions could be on the way
Solutions to the ongoing turbine trouble off Nantucket could be on the way.
This comes as the remaining part of the damaged blade could fall into the ocean at any time.
A lot of concerns were expressed during Wednesday night’s select board meeting on Nantucket, but much of the focus was on GE Vernova, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and their ongoing response to this situation.
During the meeting, GE Vernova’s chief sustainability officer confirmed there are still parts of the damaged blade hanging from the turbine – it amounts to about 7 to 8% of that blade.
He said crews plan to remove the rest of the damaged blade that’s dangling over the ocean on Thursday, weather permitting.
Nantucket residents were also able to direct their questions to state and federal agencies involved. One pressing question that came up was, what might happen with the remnants of Tropical Storm Debby headed our way?
“There are still pieces hanging from the turbine, lots of pieces still hanging from the turbine and there was no one around. No vessel to be seen, nothing anywhere. So again, we are expecting big winds, so does that mean we’re just supposed to keep having trash and debris roll into our beaches and into the water column and into the mouths of the animals that live out there?” asked Amy, Nantucket resident.
“We have very high confidence that the turbines and the blades that have been installed, they will be very stable through these winds,” said Roger Martella, GE Vernova chief sustainability officer.
However, residents were skeptical of this assertion.
If the weather doesn’t cooperate Thursday, GE Vernova admitted crews will be prepared for more debris removal.
Comfortable, partly sunny Thursday ahead of heavy rain from Debby’s remnants
Bottom line: we’re dodging a lot of Debby’s wrath, which honestly, doesn’t seem to be too wrathful at this point.
Thursday sees the clouds gather and a few light showers pop-up late afternoon and early evening. We’ll wa…
‘Dreams come true’: Ruby Remati helps Team USA to 1st artistic swimming medal in 20 years
Artistic swimmer Ruby Remati, a native of Andover, Massachusetts, says when she was a little girl, she would write her goal on her mirror every day to make the national team.
Not only did she make the team to compete in Paris, but she helped bring home the silver — America’s first Olympic medal in the sport in 20 years.
“It hasn’t even sunk in yet,” she said Wednesday when asked what she would tell that little girl now. “I would say dreams come true. I can’t believe I’m standing here with a silver medal. Literally every night, I’ve visualized this moment, and the fact that it’s, like, reality right now is actually insane to me.”
At 14 years old, Remati decided to pursue her dream of competing in artistic swimming full-time, leaving Andover to train in California.
“I’m just so happy that, like, I’ve had so much support from my parents, my friends, my family,” she said. “That’s all that I’m thinking about right now, I’m just so happy that I can, like, get back to them and just be like, ‘It’s all worth it.’”
It’s the first artistic swimming medal for Team USA since 2004, when Remati was watching on, inspired to chase her Olympic dreams.
Students’ antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard moves forward
A federal judge will not dismiss a lawsuit against Harvard University alleging it failed to protect its Jewish students from antisemitism.
After months of scrutiny, a lawsuit against the school will move forward.
“It is a damning indictment on the state of higher education, and on the state of Harvard University, that in order to receive equity, and justice and equality, we have to sue them,” said Shabbos Kestenbaum, one of the Jewish students who filed the lawsuit.
The suit alleges that Harvard ignored discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students in the aftermath of Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, and amid protest against Israel’s response in Gaza.
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The judge found Harvard’s reaction was, “at best, indecisive, vacillating, and at times internally contradictory.”
“We had a physical assault at the business school, we had a Jewish student who’d been spat on, we had an Israeli student being told by their professor to leave class because their nationality made others uncomfortable,” Kestenbaum said. “I mean, it’s almost as if you were writing a horror film.”
Other schools across the country have faced similar lawsuits from Jewish students, including at MIT — a lawsuit the same judge dismissed last month.
“This is the reality that far too many Jews have been experiencing on Harvard’s campus and on college campuses across the United States since Oct. 7,” Kestenbaum said.
Meanwhile, Harvard has repeatedly claimed that protests were allowed to continue on campus in order to protect freedom of speech.
A spokesperson for Harvard… saying in part:
“We appreciate that the court dismissed the claim that Harvard directly discriminated against members of our community, and we understand that the court considers it too early to make determinations on other claims,” a school spokesperson said in a statement. “Harvard is confident that once the facts in this case are made clear, it will be evident that Harvard has acted fairly and with deep concern for supporting our Jewish and Israeli students.”
Harvard’s former president, Claudine Gay, stepped down earlier this year following criticism over her testimony about antisemitism during a congressional hearing.
She also faced allegations of plagiarism.
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