A much-needed agreement between the federal government and the Bay State to replace the Sagamore Bridge has been reached, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps owns both the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, a pair of aging spans that cross the Cape Cod Canal, and has determined that the bridges will need … Read more
As Nantucket continues to reel from the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure, critics are raising concerns around how the project’s parent company, Avangrid, has donated thousands of dollars in campaign money to state elected officials. A Herald analysis found that employees who list Avangrid as their employer have made 217 donations totaling $57,677 to dozens … Read more
A proposed wind farm in the Nantucket Sound that would feature miles of transmission cables on the ocean floor and under the streets of a Barnstable village is at the center of a freshly filed lawsuit. Nine residents in Centerville, the village where the project is slated to run through, have filed an open meeting … Read more
As cleanup crews removed debris from a broken turbine blade on the shores of Nantucket, state representatives did not include a wind farm commission in their approved climate bill. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: July 20, 2024 at 7:38 p.m. Read original article here Denial … Read more
Using Cape Cod’s nearly nine-decade-old Bourne Bridge as a backdrop, a Republican challenger looking to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a swing at his Democratic rival for not working harder to fix some of the state’s most important aging infrastructure. Former military prosecutor John Deaton, standing alongside state Reps. Steven Xiarhos and Matt Muratore, … Read more
A shark was reportedly stabbed by a fisherman and left for dead on a local beach over the weekend, as a leading shark researcher urged fishers to “be aware these protected sharks are out here.” The juvenile sand tiger shark was found by a woman walking along a Marshfield beach on Saturday — who reported … Read more
Things have certainly changed for gay Bay State politicians since Barney Frank and Gerry Studds were almost run out of Congress, Barney for his sordid affair with a rent boy named Hot Bottom, and Studds for plying a teenaged male Congressional page with vodka and then sodomizing him. Now Julian Cyr is the flamboyantly gay … Read more
It is good that Gov. Maura Healey, in the wake of the deadly bridge collapse in Baltimore, assured Massachusetts residents that the bridges in the Commonwealth are inspected and safe. At the same time, though, reverberations from the deadly disaster at the important Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore will soon be felt in Massachusetts, … Read more
Maybe it’s Old Man Winter crying and howling because Bill Belichick is leaving. The precipitation just won’t quit this week, as the next storm is set to blast the region from Friday night into Saturday. The potent system will be the third storm to hit the Bay State within a week. The intense storm with … Read more
