Johnw Olver News Today

As mass timber construction evolves from the first decade of projects, we're finding an increasing variety of mass timber solutions. Here are three primary examples.

Voters in Ward 7 ousted their longtime councilor while Ward 6 residents returned their incumbent candidate to the City Council in city election races Tuesday.

Tuesdays City Council election will give voters in Wards 2, 3, 6 and 7 the chance to decide whether theyd like to return several familiar faces to the citys legislative

For all its advantages, mass timber also has a less-heralded quality: its acoustic challenges. Exposed wood ceilings and floors have led to issues with excessive noise. Mass timber experts offer practical solutions to the top five acoustic issues in mass timber buildings.

If you worry about climate change, hearing Bob Perschel, Chilmark resident and executive director of the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF), share about the organization’s work is a comfort. NEFF’s exciting forest restoration initiative, which has the potential to offset 30 percent of our regional climate mitigation needs to avoid the worst consequences of a […]

Efforts to build community and political support date back decades for 104th Fighter Wing.

“John answered the call to public service with the curiosity of an educator, with the precision of a scientist and with the integrity of the man that he was.”

More than 200 people gathered in the atrium of the John W. Olver Design Building on the UMass campus Sunday to remember the late Congressman John Olver.

A memorial service for the late U.S. Rep. John W. Olver will be held Sunday, April 16, at 1 p.m. on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

On Sunday, April 16, at 1 p.m. a memorial ceremony will take place in honor of the late John W. Olver, who served our region in the state Senate and U.S. Congress for 44 years. The event will be held in the beautiful, award-winning, John W. Olver...