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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.

Tuesday's City Council election will give voters in Wards 2, 3, 6 and 7 the chance to decide whether they'd like to return several familiar faces to the city's 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 […]