Boston Harbor advocacy groups merge, name leaders

BOSTON – The merger of the Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance has produced a new nonprofit advocacy organization with a high-powered board and led by Kathy Abbott, a former Department of Conservation and Recreation commissioner under then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican. Boston Harbor Now is forming after more than a year of deliberations with plans advance a "bigger mission" for the harbor and "to knit the mainland and the islands together to better shape the future

BOSTON – The merger of the Boston Harbor Association and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance has produced a new nonprofit advocacy organization with a high-powered board and led by Kathy Abbott, a former Department of Conservation and Recreation commissioner under then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican. Boston Harbor Now is forming after more than a year of deliberations with plans advance a "bigger mission" for the harbor and "to knit the mainland and the islands together to better shape the future…