Two people are dead after two unrelated crashes in western Massachusetts Thursday night.
The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said a 17-year-old from Westfield was killed when his car crashed on Southampton Road in Westhampton. He…
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Join us for the Negro Election Day Parade
Join us for the Salem United Negro Election Day Parade on Saturday, July 20, at 12 p.m.
The parade celebrates Negro Election Day as a state holiday in Massachusetts and commemorates the first Black voting system in the Commonwealth, dating ba…
Perfect weekend ahead: New England to enjoy warm and dry weather, with low humidity
Our lawns and plants are starting to get crunchy if you haven’t been watering. I know it seems as if we have had a ton of rain, but in reality, Boston hasn’t seen enough.
As this is the hottest stretch of summer, peak evaporation o…
Man accused of robbing three Fall River stores within half hour
A man is accused of robbing three Fall River, Massachusetts, stores within a half hour on Thursday.
The first robbery occurred at about 10:08 p.m. at the Maplewood Mini Mart on Stafford Road, Fall River police said, where a man with a green T-…
Pilgrim nuclear plant wastewater discharge plan denied
The company decommissioning a nuclear power plant in Plymouth cannot discharge a million-plus gallons of industrial wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, per a determination state regulators released Thursday.
Holtec International, which owns the decommissioned Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, has sought for years the authorization to discharge 1.1 million gallons of wastewater from the plant’s spent nuclear-fuel pool — which contains some radioactive material — into the bay.
Local advocates have long opposed the plan, and last summer the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection tentatively denied a permit for the company to dump the wastewater into the bay, under the state’s Ocean Sanctuaries Act
On Thursday, the department made its final determination to officially deny the permit Holtec sought for the discharge.
“MassDEP reviewed the Holtec application, and after consultation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, determined that Cape Cod Bay is a protected ocean sanctuary,” a release from MassDEP said. “The Ocean Sanctuaries Act prohibits the ‘dumping or discharge of commercial, municipal, domestic or industrial wastes’ into ocean sanctuaries. The water that Holtec proposes to discharge qualifies as industrial wastewater, and therefore, the proposed discharge is prohibited.”
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Sunny skies and beautiful conditions to end the workweek
So far, the drier air hasn’t disappointed. Cooler start Friday morning one we haven’t seen the likes of since the beginning of the month!
The recent stretch of humid weather was record-setting in the city of Boston. For 15 straight…
