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Luxury Apartments … in Downtown Brockton?

Matthew McDonald

We're not talking Back Bay, but the 24 apartments have 11-foot-high ceilings and all sorts of quality finishing touches in what is one of the poorest cities in Massachusetts. "And that's something new to downtown Brockton," the developer says.

Around New England

From Nomans Land To Bunny Island?

Matthew McDonald

Nomans Land, a small island three miles south of Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard, has been uninhabited since the 19th century; the U.S. Navy bombed it for decades in the latter part of the 30th century. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which considers the island an important way station for migrating birds, hopes to introduce a colony of New England cottontails, which thrive in the kind of young, dense, bushy forest that is declining in Massachusetts because of development.

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