Sen. Timilty announces amendments filed to budget for Sharon
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BOSTON Sen. Walter F. Timilty, D-Milton, recently filed amendments this week to the fiscal year 2022 Senate Ways and Means Budget Recommendations.
The amendments will support substance use prevention efforts, public safety improvements, and food pantry aid in the town of Sharon.
Timilty is advocating for a $350,000 allocation to be distributed equally among 14 local food pantries in the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth District. Specifically, an equal portion of this funding, if voted favorably, will be distributed locally to the Community Food Pantry at the First Congregational Church of Sharon.
“We have seen that during this COVID-19 pandemic, constituents have struggled with food insecurity,” said Timilty. “Funding these valuable community resources is critical, right now.”
Rare peregrine falcon spotted on the South Shore in Hull
HULL A rare peregrine falcon was spotted hunting a pigeon along Nantasket Avenue in Hull Thursday. The peregrine was previously considered an endangered species, but through conservation efforts has been reclassified as a species of special concern.
In the 1950s, the number of falcons in the peregrine species had declined dramatically in the east due to pesticides such as DDT, but as Americans stopped using the harmful pesticide and conservationists worked to breed the falcons in captivity, the birds have come back in large numbers. Now we have more peregrines in Massachusetts than we probably ever did historically, Norman Smith, former director of Mass Audubon s Blue Hills Trailside Museum, said. Even in downtown Boston last year there were nine nesting pairs.