Addison Gilbert Hospital has been awarded $294,000 as part of the Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization and Transformation (CHART) grant program — a revenue stream once dubbed the “distressed hospital fund,” from which AGH’s parent company, Lahey Health, sought help for the local hospital last year. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Voters on Cape Ann and across the state of Massachusetts may not have to wait until 2016’s Election Day to cast their ballots if a bill backed by the Massachusetts House last week becomes reality. On a 141-10 vote, House lawmakers approved legislation authorizing early voting in presidential elections and online registration in Massachusetts — both…
In a visit to Gloucester schools Wednesday, state Secretary of Education Matthew Malone stopped by O’Maley Innovation Middle School, admiring the curriculum and speaking about “replicating” the O’Maley education model in more innovation schools he hopes will pop up across the state. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
State Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante has been appointed vice chairwoman of the Joint Economic Development Committee by House Speaker Robert DeLeo, the speaker announced Thursday. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
In crisis mode, angry and worried, as many as 40 parties — fishing industry plaintiffs and their attorneys from North Carolina to Maine — are scheduled to participate in a conference call Friday to discuss whether to appeal a federal judge’s decision upholding a radical reorganization of the groundfishery. Read more on the Gloucester Daily…
The state’s U.S. senators, and congressional representatives of Gloucester and New Bedford Thursday wrote to “implore” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to make public the findings of a special master’s report on the most egregious cases of law enforcement misconduct against the fishing industry. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Forged in independence, laid low by regulatory constraints, America’s original fishing port told its story in many voices from many perspectives Tuesday, appealing to one arm of the U.S. Commerce Department for relief to help survive the harm done by another. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Starting her second term as a member of the state House of Representatives, Ann-Margaret Ferrante has been given a seat on the House Ways and Means Committee which handles the distribution of revenue. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Gloucester has been granted a designation as a “green community” by the state’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. And with that designation comes the eligibility to reel in $198,200 in grant funding to explore municipal renewable power and energy efficiency grants. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Gloucester’s state lawmakers have launched a campaign for a special federal prosecutor to investigate possible criminal behavior by national fisheries enforcement agents, who seized assets from and fined fishermen and then spent the money. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→