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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
Around New England
Town Meeting voters in Westport have said no to marijuana farming, despite an effort by the Craft Cannabis Co-Op Committee appointed by the town's board of selectmen. The zoning bylaw change would have allowed growing and manufacturing marijuana and selling it to a wholesale retailer elsewhere in Massachusetts,
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Federal officials have brought 13 New England cottontails to a small island about 3 miles south of Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard to try to jumpstart the struggling population. The eight males and five females are expected to reproduce, well, like rabbits.
Around New England
A former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party is running for a Boston City Council seat that includes the Back Bay. Jennifer Nassour, 47, originally from Long Island in New York, got hooked on politics during college, switching her major to political science from the pre-medicine plans she previously had.
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Connecticut is dropping its "Still Revolutionary" tourism branding because of its perceived ineffectiveness. The state has been using the slogan for seven years. Some critics say it appeals to a narrow aspect of state history. Connecticut is also thin on major Revolutionary War events.
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Massachusetts legislators should roll back the state's sales tax to 5 percent, where it was for decades until the state Legislature increased it in 2009, an anti-tax group says. The state's sales tax is currently 6.25 percent, with a 0.75 percent local option that
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Falmouth officials are trying to mitigate the financial damage to the town from two stilled wind turbines. Removing them is estimated to cost between $8.1 and $9.6 million, and the town is also potentially on the hook for $3.5 million of a $5 million loan from the
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Several district attorneys in Massachusetts are calling on judges to stop using more lenient sentencing guidelines that contradict minimum sentences set by law. One example: Rape and abuse of a child aggravated by age difference between the defendant and the victim carries a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence in state
Around New England
Several district attorneys in Massachusetts are calling on judges to stop using more lenient sentencing guidelines that contradict minimum sentences set by law. One example: Rape and abuse of a child aggravated by age difference between the defendant and the victim carries a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence in state