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HISTORIC TRIANGLE — Catch up on important news and notes in brief from in and around the Historic Triangle. Williamsburg Landing Wins Workplace Excellence Award…

More than 150 people attended the UIA Housing Action meeting Tuesday in New Bedford.

Tempers flared at a New England Fisheries Management Council meeting about its proposed Scallop Fishery Management Plan adjustment.

The discovery brings light to Savannahs role in the Revolutionary War, which is often overshadowed by its Civil War history.

The Port of New Bedford will add another base of operations and terminal logistics facility to support offshore wind projects off Massachusetts and the northeastern coast seaboard. The former Sprague/Eversource...

Acushnet Avenue to join one of 12 additional selected districts to participate in MassDevelopments Transformative Development Initiative.

NEW BEDFORD —  Three city councilors, two businesses and one state representative are partnering up in what might be a last attempt to keep the North Ends pocket parks.  Councilor-at-large Ian Abreu announced on Facebook that monthly cleanups for two pocket parks in the North End will start on Saturday, May 8 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. "It is my hope and desire that these cleanups will help empower our community to take back ownership of these public resources," Abreu wrote. "I would like to g...

Pressure mounts for Massachusetts to vaccinate educators By Emma Platoff and Felicia Gans Globe Staff,Updated March 2, 2021, 8:15 p.m. Email to a Friend Vaccination site workers boarded a school bus transporting education workers as it arrived at a mass vaccination site in a parking lot at Hollywood Park adjacent to SoFi stadium during the Covid-19 pandemic in Inglewood, Calif. on Monday.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Pressure mounted Tuesday on Governor Charlie Baker to join the majori...

State Rep. Arciero named chair of housing committee Community Content State Rep. James Arciero, of Westford, was chosen on Feb. 12 as the new house chair of the joint committee on housing by statehouse speaker Ronald Mariano, of Quincy, who made his leadership and committee assignments for the 192th legislative session. “I am honored by the trust and confidence that speaker Mariano has shown me in this selection,” said Arciero, who is serving his seventh term in the Massachusetts House of R...

Legislators call for more vaccination sites in Southeast Massachusetts Wicked Local BOSTON – Chair of the Southeastern Massachusetts Legislative Caucus Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton, has announced that 26 legislators have called for more vaccination sites in Southeastern Massachusetts. The following legislators have signed onto a letter calling for the sites: Senators Michael D. Brady, Mark C. Montigny, Susan L. Moran, Rebecca L. Rausch, and Walter F. Timilty, and Representatives Antonio F....