Firefighters battled a blaze in a waste management building in Avon, Massachusetts, on Monday morning.
The fire was reported around 8:45 a.m. in a commercial building on 40 Ledin Drive, according to the Avon Fire Department. That is the listed…
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From dry to damp: Humidity and rain return to New England this week
After a pleasant and dry weekend, the humidity and rain are both back this week.
Monday will be one of the better days of the week, until the weekend. Temperatures peak in the low to mid-80s for highs Monday, with more clouds this evening and …
Shuttle buses replace service on portion of Green Line due to electrical issue
Shuttle buses replaced service on a portion of the Green Line on Monday morning due to an issue with overhead wires.
Shortly after 8 a.m., the MBTA said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that an issue with an overhead wire near Lechme…
More debris from broken wind turbine found on Nantucket
More debris from the broken wind turbine was found on Nantucket over the weekend.
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture of Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, says it received a report on Sunday that debris from the damaged wind turbine blade was washed up near Madequecham Valley Road, south of Nantucket Memorial Airport.
Beach crews were “immediately dispatched” to that location along with a helicopter, the company said in a statement Sunday.
“Vineyard Wind personnel on the beach are monitoring for debris to assist in maintaining safe conditions for beachgoers and swimmers,” the company said. “Vineyard Wind is focused on assisting in the recovery of debris caused by GE Vernova’s damaged wind blade.”
The turbine was damaged more than a week ago, and since then, more than six truckloads of fiber glass debris have been removed from the shore.
Operations at the first offshore installation to provide clean power to Massachusetts were “shut down until further notice” by the federal government as investigators look into what caused the breakage in one of the project’s massive, 107-meter blades.
Anyone who finds wind turbine debris should call the Vineyard Wind’s reporting hotline at 833-609-5768.
Vineyard Wind has 10 operational turbines delivering about 136 megawatts of power to the regional grid. Project overseers eventually plan to scale up to 62 turbines providing 806 megawatts.
More on the Nantucket wind turbine incident
Mass General Brigham returns to regular service after global Microsoft outage
Two days after the Crowdstrike outage affecting Microsoft computers worldwide caused disruptions at hospitals, airports and more across the Boston area, Mass General Brigham says they’re back to regular service.
The hospital says they we…
Karen Read’s new trial date could be determined Monday
We could get a date soon for the new Karen Read murder trial.
Read’s defense team and prosecutors are expected in court Monday to consider the next steps.
After a mistrial, prosecutors made it clear that they intend to retry Read, who’s accused of hitting her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in the snow.
Read’s defense team says five jurors have come forward and confirmed the jury was only unable to agree on the manslaughter charge. Now, they’re looking to hold a post-verdict inquiry to confirm the jurors found her not guilty of second-degree murder and leaving the scene.
Prosecutors are asking the court to deny that request, and if the judge does agree to hold such a hearing, legal experts say there’s a real chance prosecutors could be barred from retrying Read for murder.
The new date must be before July first 2025, exactly one year after the mistrial was declared.
