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Swampscott may get money for racial equity action plan House accepts, adopts state Rep. Lori Ehrlich's funding amendment Wicked Local Swampscott stands to receive up-to $100,000 from the state government to produce and implement a racial equity municipal action plan. State Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead,  successfully submitted the appropriation amendment into the House’s Fiscal Year 2022 state budget that representatives adopted and put forward last week. Whether the town captures the money hinges on Ehrlich’s amendment emerging from a conference committee when both the House and the ...

Swampscott lands $80K grant for town pier's rehabilitation Wicked Local Swampscott landed an $80,000 grant from the Massachusetts Seaport Economic Council to fund initial design and engineering for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the Swampscott Pier at Fisherman's Beach.  The Swampscott Harbor and Waterfront Plan (also financed with a 2016 grant from the council) identifies the rehabilitation of the town pier as an urgent and vital coastal-resilience and economic-development project. The $80,000 grant coupled with a $20,000 commitment will cover the project’s phase 1.   “This r...

BOSTON — The growth of “news deserts” in Massachusetts and the possible solutions to improving local journalism in underserved communities will be the focus of a new commission approved in

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State commission will explore ways to support local journalism Newspapers GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Published: 2/11/2021 2:21:04 PM The growth of “news deserts” in Massachusetts and the possible solutions to improving local journalism in underserved communities will be the focus of a new commission approved in the final hours of the last legislative session. The initiative by Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead, and Sen. Brendan Crighton, D-Lynn, was part of the massive economic development bill approved by lawmakers and sent to Gov. Charlie Baker last month. It will examine the sustainability of lo...