BOSTON – November 28, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today announced more than $3.9 million in grant awards to 13 communities to protect over 900 acres of land through the Local Acquisitions for Natural Diversity (LAND) Grant Program. The grant program, which is overseen by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ (EEA) Division […]readmore
The UMass Dartmouth Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will hold the “Maritime Innovation: Connecting, training, and advancing” conference on Wednesday, November 30, from 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM , at 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA, 02723. “The focus of this year’s conference will be on the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the […]readmore
BOSTON – November 21, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today announced $300,000 in grants to the Commonwealth’s regional Buy Local agricultural organizations for projects that will enhance efforts in western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts. Regional agricultural Buy Local organizations connect Bay State farmers with their surrounding communities. Started in the Pioneer Valley with Community […]readmore
Grant Will Fund Demolition of Abandoned Mill and Parkland Conversion BOSTON – November 21, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded $520,000 to the Town of Monroe to demolish part of the former Ramage Paper Mill and create a new public park in its place. As a condition of the grant, the Town of Monroe […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI – «What cheer, Netop.” The famous greeting of the Narragansett to Roger Williams along the shore of the Seekonk River in 1636 still resonates throughout the Ocean State today. A new exhibition at the Rhode Island State Archives, entitled “First Nations who helped form Rhode Island” chronicles the history of indigenous peoples, including […]readmore
Article will run in the Summer 2017 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation In an article that will run in the Summer 2017 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation . University of Massachusetts School of Law Professor Jeremiah Ho and alumnus Alexander Rovzar (UMass Law ’16) propose a bold policy that would promote […]readmore
This is an open letter to President-elect Trump. I want you to know that America expects better of you as president than what it saw in the campaign you ran. You are now to be our president, and that brings new responsibilities. I hope you feel the call of history to live up to them. […]readmore
BOSTON – November 10, 2016 – Effective sunrise on Monday, November 14, 2016, the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) will reopen all approved and conditionally approved shellfish areas in the Town of Wellfleet which were closed on October 13, 2016 as a result of a Norovirus outbreak linked to shellfish harvested from the area. Federal […]readmore
Initiative uses single-occupancy restrooms to expand access and strengthen commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion In a continuing effort to extend its commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, UMass Dartmouth has converted more than 62 single-occupancy restrooms to all-gender restrooms.The restrooms are located in all but two campus buildings. Eighty percent of the all-gender bathrooms […]readmore
BOSTON – The New Bedford Industrial Pretreatment Program in New Bedford, Mass. was recently selected by EPA for a 2016 Regional Industrial Pretreatment Program Excellence Award. The pretreatment program staff of New Bedford, led by Wayne Perry, Industrial Pretreatment Program Engineer, under the supervision of Jamie Ponte, Wastewater Superintendent, was recognized by EPA’s New England […]readmore