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This week: It's our 2021 year-in-review News Roundup. From vaccines to variants, and more. Offshore wind surges forward, right whales fall farther behind, and the machine gun range project hangs fire. The CAI reporting staff looks back at some of the top stories of the year.
The offshore wind industry took a big step forward this month. The state awarded contracts for two new windfarms. That could shake up the economies, and even the look and feel, of some South Coast communities. CAI host Patrick Flanary spoke with South Coast reporter Daniel Ackerman about the new wind farm contracts.
This week: The federal government will be looking for public input on the proposed machine gun range. One million gallons of radioactive water could be released from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant into Cape Cod Bay. And we celebrate a whale mother.
Falconry — the practice of hunting with trained birds of prey — developed thousands of years ago in the Middle East and Central Asia. Joe Gomes is one of Massachusetts’s 40 permitted falconers currently hunting with birds like peregrine falcons, red-tailed hawks, great horned owls and other raptor species.
Fall means cider, leaf-peeping and crisper weather to some, and traditional winemaking to others.