The state also reported 711 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here’s the data reported Friday, April 9, 2021. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
N.H. confirms: Mass. residents will be allowed to come over the border for the vaccine
Gov. Chis Sununu says the state will offer the vaccine to “any person from anywhere.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
New details emerge about the MBTA’s Green Line Extension
Officials also revealed the branch assignments for the two GLX arms. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
‘Don’t do this job in fear of losing it’: Kim Janey got advice from mayors of 2 other major cities. Here’s what they said.
“The critics are everywhere.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
‘You are like a bomb waiting to go off’: Maine man ordered held without bail for his role in the Capitol breach
Kyle Fitzsimons, 37, of Lebanon, faces charges including causing injury to two police officers. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Boston councilors form committee focused on how COVID-19 relief cash is spent
Councilor Kenzie Bok said the federal relief funding presents a “once in a generation chance for us to actually show people what it looks like when government steps up to meet a really big challenge.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Ransomware attack cancels school in Haverhill, delaying in-person learning
The cancelled day will be considered a “snow day” and will be made up at the end of the school year in June, officials said. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
‘The response needs to be pretty aggressive’
“We need to take these variants incredibly seriously, much more seriously than we’re doing now.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
RMV vehicle inspection system shutdown could last into next week, company says
The RMV is asking law enforcement not to ticket anyone with an inspection sticker that expired in March. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
These ‘road rage’ TikToks by a Peabody man echo all your Massachusetts driving woes
“CAN YOU PICK A LANE?!” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey enters race to seek a full term
“The work to address the challenges we face from COVID and racial inequalities that have been inherited from centuries of structural racism will take longer than a few months to change.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Vermont prioritized BIPOC households in its vaccine rollout. The governor just condemned the ‘vitriolic’ backlash.
“And it is evidence that many Americans, and many Vermonters, still have a lot to learn about the impacts of racism in our country and how it has influenced public policy over the years.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Slain Capitol officer, a Mass. native, recalled as proud dad with great sense of humor
“This has shaken a lot of people’s worlds.” Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Berklee student Grace Kinstler stops the show in the All Star round of ‘American Idol’
Beane and Colin Jamieson, two other finalists representing Massachusetts, will perform Monday night. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Firefighters battle 6-alarm blaze involving several homes in Lawrence
Some people could be trapped inside the buildings, according to Jennifer Mieth, a spokesperson for the state fire marshal’s office. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Here’s who is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday
Just over 20% of the Bay State’s population has been fully vaccinated so far. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Mass. reports 2,263 new COVID-19 cases, 30 new deaths
The state also reported 707 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here’s the data reported Saturday, April 3, 2021. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
New Hampshire couple leaves $144K to state wildlife, K-9 programs
It came as “a complete surprise to us,” said Col. Kevin Jordan, the Fish and Game Department’s top law enforcement officer. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Update: Firefighters extinguish 4-alarm blaze in Somerville, six people displaced
Multiple fire crews worked to put out the flames. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Mass. to fund more than $4M for Quincy center for homeless
The funding for the Father Bill’s & MainSpring facility was announced Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Baker after a tour of the facility, The Patriot Ledger reported. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
Capitol Police officer killed at barricade was North Adams native
State Representative John Barrett III was mayor of North Adams for 26 years and recalled handing Evans his diploma when he graduated from Drury High in 1998. “It is a shock,” Barrett said in an interview Friday night. “He was just a good kid who had a great sense of humor, was well-rounded, and he…
Births among endangered right whales highest since 2015
“It’s a somewhat hopeful sign that they are starting to adjust to this new regime where females are in good enough condition to give birth,” said Philip Hamilton, a right whale researched at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Top Featured Tags: – Massachusetts News Press Release Distribution Service
