Just hours after his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited, as one reason, the impact offshore wind may have on marine life. “If you’re into whales,” Trump said, “you don’t want windmills.” Whale experts say the facts show otherwise.
Winter is planting season for kelp, a growing industry in New England.
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Lake Morey Resort, which has been maintaining the lake's skating loop, lost their insurance coverage. But at the eleventh hour, the town of Fairlee stepped in, agreeing to maintain the ice and provide insurance coverage for the activities there.
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Amherst-Pelham Regional School District Superintendent E. Xiomara Herman responded publicly today to allegations she threatened employees with physical harm and used inappropriate language. The events are described in an anonymous letter sent to the district school committee and others.
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One of their attorneys called Trump’s pardons “a big middle finger to America.” Trump says the move “ends a grave national injustice.”
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The organizations argue that the Trump administration's move to end end birthright citizenship for the children of some immigrants is unconstitutional.
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Even with the surge of interest in typewriters, Tom Furrier says the time has come for him to close Cambridge Typewriter and retire.
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Obama-era rules, which Trump kept in place during his first administration, currently prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests at so-called “sensitive locations,” including schools, churches and hospitals. But Trump reportedly wants to rescind that policy.
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It was important to have Rhimes as the guest speaker due to the gravity of her work and her commitment to change, according to The Westport Library’s Marketing and Communications Director, EJ Crawford.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in the line of duty in Coventry on Monday afternoon, authorities said.
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