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No Weed Farming in Westport

Matthew McDonald

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, but no retail sales within the town.

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Nomans Land May Soon Be Known As Rabbit Island

Matthew McDonald

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.

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