The second planned closure of the nearly 100-year-old Sumner Tunnel, which connects East Boston to downtown, will begin on July 5 this year but will last only one month rather than the planned two-month closure initially announced by state transportation officials. “We are doing this as quickly as we can,” she said. “We are very cognizant of the disruptions that this caused and ... we’re ...
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NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Interstate 95 in Connecticut reopened Sunday after a flaming crash involving a gasoline tanker scorched a bridge and left the roadway closed for days, officials said. Authorities shut the highway down in both directions after a three-vehicle crash Thursday involving a gasoline tanker, which burst into flames and damaged an overpass above I-95 in Norwalk. No one was ...
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ORONO, Maine (AP) — The world’s largest 3D printer has created a house that can cut construction time and labor. An even larger printer unveiled on Tuesday may one day create entire neighborhoods. The machine revealed Tuesday at the University of Maine is four times larger than the first one — commissioned less than five years ago — and capable of printing ever mightier objects. That includes ...
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A Connecticut-based marine and heavy construction company is being blamed for a pier collapse last fall that sent five workers into the Acushnet River, injuring two of them, according to federal officials. Mohawk Northeast Inc. — which is based in Southington and has an office in Groton — faces a total of about $214,000 in penalties after Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
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The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state's former coal-fired generating station. Avangrid’s New England Wind is the United States' eighth large offshore wind project to be greenlit and is tied for the largest ever approved, but will probably be smaller. Avangrid says it will be ...
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A former chief financial officer at a construction equipment supplier in Connecticut has pleaded guilty to a federal charge stemming from a scheme he used to embezzle nearly $900,000. Charles Ameer, 64, of Weston pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud during a hearing Thursday in federal court in Bridgeport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. He is free ...
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After a cargo ship crashed into and knocked over a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said bridges across the Bay State are regularly inspected and “up to date.” Healey, appearing on Boston Public Radio on WGBH, said she’d be meeting with officials from the Coast Guard, state Department of Transportation, Massport and Massachusetts Maritime Tuesday ...
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Mar. 25—Charise Hewitt has lived near Konold's pond in the West Hills neighborhood of Woodbridge for about 20 years, and every spring and summer her yard floods twice a month. It takes weeks for it to dry out enough to walk on the ground, she said, and it's gotten worse over time. In a nearby grove of trees, a small ancient dam more than 100-years-old is choked with brush as it holds back the ...
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Mar. 22—BOSTON — Nearly $200,000 in back pay for 37 workers from a Lawrence company was recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor, the federal agency announced. The employees from Stone Art Inc., 9 Osgood St., were not paid prevailing wages and fringe benefits while working on a federally funded project at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Providence, Rhode Island, according ...
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Mar. 19—SALEM, Mass. — An asbestos removal company that's worked in the Merrimack Valley and across the state was arraigned on violations of the state's Clean Air Act and worker safety regulations in Salem Superior Court on Monday. Franklin Analytical Services Inc. of Marion and its owners, Thomas McCoog and Amy Franklin McCoog, were indicted in April 2023 on 98 criminal counts in connection ...
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