Editor's note: An earlier version of this story initially reported the city of Somerville's launching of an immigration-related hotline. The hotline was launched jointly via several nonprofits.
SOMERVILLE — The birthplace of so-called "sanctuary city" policies, which bar police from sharing arrestees' information with federal immigration officials, is stepping up its resistance to President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
A 200-year-old white ash tree was taken down in Scituate, Rhode Island.
One of relatively few tall trees to survive the Hurricane of 1938, the tree at the time of its felling was 110 feet tall and 17 feet around the base. It took four hours for a tree service to take it down, according to The Providence Journal.
