They opened the doors to the Gloucester Biotechnology Academy on Saturday, uncovering a portal to the future for students from Gloucester, Cape Ann and beyond interested in working in the life sciences field of biotechnology. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
The expansion comes as the center has grown from essentially no staff to a corps of eight part-timers and a small army of volunteers. It also comes as the center has been bolstered by a $75,000 state earmark secured, board President Mary Jane McGlennon noted, by state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante and state Senate Minority Leader…
When state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante presented House citations saluting Courtland Kelly, Meghan Stratton and Marina Lavender, the three AmeriCorps workers serving Gloucester’s Backyard Growers, she noted the work of the city’s growing and farming community. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr and Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante are urging state Attorney General Maura Healey to explore any “appropriate legal means” to support the federal lawsuit seeking to block NOAA Fisheries from shifting the costs of at-sea monitors to Northeast groundfishermen. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Lawmakers are moving to shrink the wage gap between men and women in Massachusetts, but some business groups say the legislation is unnecessary and could instead expose companies to costly discrimination lawsuits. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Special kiosks set up at some police stations collect unwanted and unused prescription medication, and some departments accept unwanted guns and ammunition on dedicated takeback days. Massachusetts police departments could next become a point for addicts seeking recovery to turn in unwanted heroin and other drugs, without the threat of prosecution, under legislation recently filed by…
A bill filed by state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante aims to boost the state’s assault on the opioid crisis by essentially taking a core element of the program launched last year by the Gloucester Police Department and expanding it statewide. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Millions of pounds of lobster caught by Massachusetts fishermen are shipped to Canada for processing — mostly because a decades-old law prohibits the meat from being prepared locally. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Students in two Gloucester elementary schools previously ranked among the state’s lowest 20 percent so outperformed their cohorts across the state in standardized tests last spring that they raised their schools and the Gloucester school district as a whole to a Level 2 classification in the state Department of Education’s accountability system. Read more on…
The audit of the project had been requested by two Gloucester lawmakers —state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr and state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante — in March 2014 after DOT safety inspections on the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge and Gloucester’s Blynman Bridge, aka the Cut Bridge, on Western Avenue, led to reductions in weight limits on…
