Posts Tagged ‘mayor’
Mayors take oath of office in Fitchburg, Malden, Taunton
Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong, who survived a strong challenge to win her third term in office, said today she was honored to be reelected at a time of anti-incumbent fervor. “I’ve had a long-term approach to a lot of issues and I’m glad that has been recognized by the voters,” said Wong after [...]
Boston property taxes to rise about 2 percent
Homeowners will pay slightly more in property taxes in fiscal 2012, the city announced today. The residential rate will rise from $12.79 per thousand dollars of valuation in fiscal 2011 to $13.04, the mayor’s office said in a statement. That amounts to an increase of about 2 percent.The rate for [...]
School bus crash reported in Charlton
A school bus crashed in Charlton this afternoon, police said. The accident occurred around 2:40 p.m. on North Sturbridge Road, a Charlton police dispatcher said. No one on the bus was injured, the dispatcher said. But at least one other person was injured. The dispatcher did not have any further [...]
Hours after raid, Menino says he sympathizes with Occupy Boston protester issues
Hours after Boston police shut down the Occupy Boston protest in Dewey Square, dismantling tents and arresting dozens of demonstrators, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said he thought the operation had come out “real well.” At the same time, he said he felt the movement included “a lot of good [...]
Occupy Boston protesters respond with defiance and a promise to take their movement elsewhere as police sweep into Dewey Square
Robin Jacks wanted to be arrested, even as she tweeted details of the predawn police raid on the Occupy Boston encampment. She longed for that moment of solidarity with about 40 demonstrators taken into custody by Boston Police officers. It was not to be. “They made me leave,” the 31-year-old [...]
Watching Dewey Square
Globe reporters and photographers continue to track developments at the Occupy Boston encampment that took root in Dewey Square in September. It was not cleared out by the city Thursday night despite a midnight deadline handed down by Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The fate of those who remained was [...]
Intensive probe underway into fatal Worcester fire; search continues for missing resident
Fifteen to 20 investigators are sifting through the rubble of a tripledecker on Arlington Street in Worcester today, looking for the cause of a three alarm-blaze that killed one firefighter -- and for an occupant who may have died in the blaze, authorities said. The fire “is under active [...]
Some Occupy Boston protesters said they plan to stay until they are forced to go
With determination in his voice and a hammer in hand, Occupy Boston protester Harry said today he is willing to risk arrest in order to continue living at the Dewey Square encampment. One day after Mayor Menino ordered an end to the tent village, the Dorchester man hammered a wooden stake into the [...]
In Fukushima’s wake, Attorney General Coakley asks regulators to take second look at risks at Pilgrim nuclear plant
Attorney General Martha Coakley is asking US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to review the refusal of its licensing board to consider the impact of the recent nuclear disaster in Japan on relicensing procedures for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, on the coast south of Boston. [...]
After midnight deadline, a waiting game
Midnight came and went at Occupy Boston, and little changed. The brass band kept playing. The chants continued. And the crowd seemed to grow by the minute as Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s deadline passed. The crowd, which had been down to a couple hundred earlier in the afternoon, ballooned to about a [...]
