A human recently contracted Eastern equine encephalitis in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced this past weekend.
The person who got it is a male in his 80s who got a mosquito bite in Worcester County, according to a press release from the state's health agency. It is the first reported human case of Eastern equine encephalitis in Massachusetts since 2020.
The Nantucket board of selectmen has released what might be described as a dispatch from the front lines of offshore wind development, a hot take on what it's like to be a municipality trying to co-exist with the nation's first industrial-scale wind farm.
