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A UMass Amherst nursing professor has been named to a national panel of inventors — the first nurse to be honored alongside engineers and computer scientists from companies like Microsoft and IBM.
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Central Maine Power (CMP) and a group of stakeholders in the western region of Maine, where the company wants to build a major new transmission line, have struck a mitigation deal worth up to $22 million.
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Walk down the hallway at Holyoke High School and step into room 319, the student support room, and you’ll see a dozen chairs arranged in a broad circle. There are plants in the windows.
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Earlier that same year — 1968 — the Vietnam war was raging, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, race riots were erupting and Cesar Chavez, a leader for migrant farm workers, went on a hunger strike. Kennedy, then U.S. senator from New York and former U.S. attorney general, brought a message of tolerance and hope to the striking workers in California.
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This week is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F.Kennedy. While the controversy and conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of his brother John F. Kennedy are well known, the death of Robert Kennedy is far less familiar to the public. A political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth created an archive devoted to RFK’s assassination that has been a valuable resource for those looking into alternate theories about the murder.
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Lake Champlain will get a $4 million increase in federal clean-up funds this year. But the Environmental Protection Agency says Vermont still needs to develop a funding source of its own.
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After Hurricane Maria last September, a few thousand school aged-students were among those who left Puerto Rico with their families and came to New England. As the school year wraps up some of them are graduating, thousands of miles away from home. Mayrangelique Rojas De Leon is among them. She recently completed her last exam…
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In New Hampshire’s increasingly tight rental market, one area where there’s new development is conversion of industrial buildings. It’s a niche market, but one that’s attracting multiple generations of residents.
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Solar power’s emergence as an important feature of New England’s energy landscape just hit an important milestone.
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OPINION In her search for a house to rent, Kristin Bradbury has called maybe a dozen property owners, and the excuses she’s heard fall into a few distinct categories. When she asks about renting a home in Madison, Conn., and mentions that she and husband Anderson (Andy) have three children, property owners are quick to…
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