STATE HOUSE — Attorney General Maura Healey would be stripped of her authority to regulate firearms under a bill filed Friday afternoon by the state Senate minority leader.
Sen. Bruce Tarr of Gloucester filed his "act to protect due process and strengthen public safety" 12 days after Healey announced her office would step up enhancement of the state's 1998 assault weapon ban on what she described as "copycat" guns that are similar in construction to banned guns or have interchangeable key parts.
Now through Nov. 6, let the Peabody Essex Museum make an impression on you! Co-organized with the North Carolina Museum of Art in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory of Maine, the PEM presents the Childe Hassam exhibition designed to immerse guests in a multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary experience of more than 40 of the prolific American Impressionist's finest works.
Entering the second floor gallery of the Museum, visitors are wrapped in time and place by a floor-to-ceiling black and white panorama of life in the summer colony of Appledore. With Star Island, Appledore is known as a part of the Isle of Shoals. Appledore, the largest island in the Atlantic's archipelago, is where Boston-born, Lowell Institute-trained Hassam spent most summers between 1886-1916. There he inhaled the salt air and basked in the light of coastal New England.
