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Taunton Daily Gazette
March 3, 2018
The 102nd season of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra is funded in part by Entergy and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. .... to patients and their families, vigil visits at the time of death and to help with day-to-day activities such as running errands and providing local transportation.
Eagle-Tribune
March 2, 2018
Before the nor'easter arrived, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation placed a sign on Beach Road in Salisbury, warning about the storm and ... Meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts, said the strongest winds can be expected Friday afternoon, likely leading toÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Taunton
March 2, 2018
Several major media outlets are partnering with Jane Doe this year to feature sports anchors in #ReimagineManhood public service announcements that will air throughout March. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation also plans to use its electronic billboards to bring attention to the campaign.
Wicked Local
March 1, 2018
Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said the T was placing sandbags at Aquarium Station, the downtown Boston Blue Line station which flooded ... to major -- and potentially life-threatening -- coastal flooding along ocean-exposed portions of the eastern Massachusetts coast over multiple high tideÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
February 28, 2018
About a year ago, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced it was considering doing South Coast Rail in phases, with service via Middleboro as Phase 1. The Middleboro route is slated for completion by 2022. The previously selected Stoughton route would offer shorter rides, butÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
February 22, 2018
It's time to build consensus on South Coast Rail, Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack told a largely sympathetic audience Wednesday at a meeting hosted by business and community leaders. DARTMOUTH — It's time to build consensus on South Coast Rail, MassachusettsÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
February 8, 2018
The location for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's proposed Pilgrim Junction commuter rail station is highlighted in year on the map of the South Coast Rail Projects routes. ... Department of Transportation issued a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report on a phased-in project.
Enterprise News
February 18, 2018
Partners HealthCare is a Boston non-profit group that owns both Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Those speaking in opposition to the closure of the unit included Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr., U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III and state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton.
Taunton Daily Gazette
February 8, 2018
The location for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's proposed Pilgrim Junction commuter rail station is highlighted in year on the map of the South Coast Rail Projects routes. ... Department of Transportation issued a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report on a phased-in project.
Fall River Herald News
February 8, 2018
FALL RIVER – Rail travelers from Fall River and New Bedford will save “approximately an hour” each day traveling to Boston when the Phase I Middleborough secondary route is completed by late 2022, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said. That comparison to auto travel, and an estimatedÃÂ ...
Progressive Rail Roading
February 7, 2018
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has filed a draft supplemental environmental impact report (DSEIR) for the proposed South ... which would extend the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Middleborough/Lakeview Line to New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton usingÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
February 6, 2018
Boston can expect 2 to 4 inches of snow starting around 9 a.m., said Meteorologist Lenore Correia, with the National Weather Service in Taunton. ... The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is urging drivers to be cautious on roadways during the storm, reducing their speed and allowing for extraÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Taunton
February 1, 2018
Berry, who ran for state Senate as a Republican last year, was previously legislative director for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Walsh was interim executive director of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, and she has worked at the public relations shop Denterlein and for theÃÂ ...
MassLive.com
January 30, 2018
BOSTON -- The people of Massachusetts want more renewable energy, a price on carbon, climate adaptation, natural gas leak repair, electric transportation, environmental justice, and an end to new fossil fuel infrastructure, according to the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change.
Taunton Daily Gazette
January 30, 2018
State Department of Transportation worker removed the ties following the complaint. Massachusetts has regulations under the Department of Environmental Protection that addresses diesel trains “which states that diesel cars should not remain idle for more than 30 minutes,” said Bond. Robert Norvish, 26ÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
January 30, 2018
The new base of operations will address the critical care transport needs of patients across southeastern Massachusetts and further improve emergency response times to the region. “We have seen increased demand for our services, and by opening this base we are continuing to strive to better serve theÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
January 27, 2018
The millionaires who fund his campaign accounts think things are good under Charlie Baker's status quo, but the rest of us know that Massachusetts needs a plan to invest in transportation and education, resist the Trump Administration, fight the opioid epidemic and lower the cost of healthcare. It's clear thatÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
January 12, 2018
20, Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School Committee meeting. “This is strictly a financial decision based on increasing costs of transportation.” Under Massachusetts General Law all children residing in a regional school district, in grades kindergarten through twelve and who live more than two miles fromÃÂ ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
RAYNHAM – The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors Monday approved the awarding of a contract for approximately $20 million to replace the bridge that carries vehicles on Route 44 over Route 24 in Raynham. The full scope of work for this project includes replacing theÃÂ ...
CapeNews.net
November 24, 2017
The current immersion program, approved by Massachusetts voters on a ballot question in 2002, ... Shaunna O'Connell (R-Taunton) said. .... Counterfeit Airbags (H 1803)—The Committee on Transportation held a hearing on ...
Wicked Local Taunton
November 22, 2017
Currently, the lower posted limits are suggestions, Transportation ... in Massachusetts rose 12.8 percent in 2016, to 389 from 345 in 2015.
Eagle-Tribune
November 22, 2017
... the mid-40s, according to Kim Buttrick, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Taunton. ... Bill Boynton from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation Public Information Office ... Massachusetts ranks 20th.
Taunton Daily Gazette
November 21, 2017
... to bring commuter rail service to Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton. ... the Massachusetts Department of Transportation gave an update on ...
Wicked Local Mansfield
November 16, 2017
... be sent to the Mansfield News, 5 Cohannet St., Taunton, MA 02780. ... housing costs, car repair bills, funeral expenses, transportation and in ...
Fall River Herald News
November 14, 2017
FALL RIVER – The Massachusetts Department of Transportation ... on the Veteran's Memorial Bridge over the Taunton River between Fall ...
Wicked Local Taunton
November 8, 2017
Care about transportation and the MBTA? ... gauntlet in April when the Massachusetts Republican Party will hold its election year convention, ...
Wicked Local Taunton
October 26, 2017
In a presentation submitted to lawmakers, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said it was working with the Federal Highway ...
Taunton Daily Gazette
December 31, 1999
The current immersion program, approved by Massachusetts voters on a ... Shaunna O'Connell, R-Taunton. .... COUNTERFEIT AIRBAGS (H 1803) -- The Committee on Transportation held a hearing on legislation that would ...
Lowell Sun
December 31, 1999
A second worker, a 33-year-old Taunton man who was on the back of the ... The Massachusetts Department of Transportation released a ...
Progressive Rail Roading
March 29, 2017
The project calls for restoring rail service to the New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton, Mass. Photo - MassDOT. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has chosen a phased approach to help accelerate a project aimed at restoringÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Taunton
March 27, 2017
The first step in buying a green car is to define what "green" means in the context of personal transportation. One simple definition of a green vehicle is one that uses significantly less petroleum and generates significantly less polluting and ...
Wicked Local Taunton
March 27, 2017
By checking off any of six boxes on the form, taxpayers can donate some or all of their refunds to the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Fund, the Organ Transplant Fund, the Massachusetts AIDS Fund, the Massachusetts U.S. Olympic Fund, the ...
Enterprise News
March 27, 2017
Providing diesel-based commuter rail service to the South Coast via Middleboro would cost about a third as much as the $3.3 billion price-tag for building an electrified route through Stoughton, according to the Massachusetts Department of ...
The Patriot Ledger
March 26, 2017
The department is in charge of more than 450,000 acres of Massachusetts land, including beaches, parks, historic sites, forest, swimming pools and skating rinks, a couple of golf courses and the cottages on Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor ($400 a year ...
SouthCoastToday.com
March 26, 2017
Either way, he maintains that without a station in downtown Taunton, the Middleboro route unfairly isolates one of the three Southeastern Massachusetts cities not served by commuter rail. "It basically cuts Taunton out of the equation, in terms of ...
Wicked Local Dedham
March 24, 2017
Information about the cost of the first phase of the rail project is not available, according to a Massachusetts Department of Transportation spokesman. MassDOT is ... Taunton Sen. Marc Pacheco had hoped the state would continue to pursue service along ...
MassLive.com
March 23, 2017
Officials with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation filed a notice on Wednesday advancing the project, which is likely to cost several billion dollars.
The Sun Chronicle
March 22, 2017
Those in need of a ride to visitation may call the funeral home at 508-695-0200 to make an advance reservation for such complimentary transportation. In lieu of flowers, her family has requested that donations may be made in Nancy's memory to Paws of ...
Wicked Local Wareham
March 22, 2017
Wachusett Greenways is best known as the steward of the Mass Central Rail Trail in central Massachusetts. Organizers ... Bus transportation through the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Authority is available to the Multi-Service Center for a nominal fee.
Taunton Daily Gazette
March 22, 2017
Information about the cost of the first phase of the rail project is not available, according to a Massachusetts Department of Transportation spokesman. MassDOT is still developing budget estimates, spokesman Patrick Marvin said, but expects ...
KHQ Right Now
March 21, 2017
(AP) -- A 74-year-old Massachusetts man living in public housing for the elderly faces drug trafficking charges after police say they found cocaine valued at about $150,000 in his unit.
The Sun Chronicle
March 21, 2017
PLAINVILLE - Nancy Dianne (Kelloway) Pelletier, 67, of Plainville, passed away on Monday, March 13, 2017 at Norwood Hospital in Norwood, MA.
The Sun Chronicle
March 18, 2017
Eleanor G. (Baptista) Tansey, 75, of Attleboro, peacefully passed away surrounded by her loving family on Friday, March 17, 2017, at Wingate of Norton in Norton.
Wicked Local Wareham
March 17, 2017
Wachusett Greenways is best known as the steward of the Mass Central Rail Trail in central Massachusetts. Organizers ... Bus transportation through the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Authority is available to the Multi-Service Center for a nominal fee.
Fall River Herald News
March 16, 2017
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced the Route 6 westbound roadway on the Veteran's Memorial Bridge (over the Taunton River) between Fall River and Somerset will be temporarily closed to vehicular traffic on Saturday, March 25.
New York Times
March 14, 2017
Subway service in New York City was curtailed, with the Metropolitan Transportation Agency ordering all aboveground tracks and stations closed.
Martha's Vineyard Times
March 14, 2017
The construction and demolition of the temporary bridge had an original contract total of $9.2 million, and was completed with an estimated contract total of $10.5 million - a $1.3 million overrun, according to Massachusetts Department of ...
Journal Inquirer
March 14, 2017
Stephanie Dunten, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Taunton, Massachusetts, predicted Monday evening that today's snowfall would begin blanketing the area around 4 a.m.
Wicked Local Taunton
March 14, 2017
New York, Connecticut and western Massachusetts are experiencing significant snowfall and the snow is moving east, Baker said at an 8 a.m.
Boston Business Journal
March 14, 2017
The MBTA plans to run on a normal schedule, though the Mattapan trolley on the Red Line will be replaced with buses starting this morning, according to transportation officials. The commuter rail will run on a "Blue Level," or "severe weather ...
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