Sandra Denisuk
Originally published on April 2, 2021 4:02 pm
A western Massachusetts doctor has launched a campaign urging people to remove the straps on their COVID-19 masks before throwing them away. He says he s trying to protect wildlife.
Dr. Masood Mohammed spends his days and nights trying to save the lives of humans as an emergency medicine resident at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.
Through an effort he calls Mask Off, Straps Off, he s also trying to help save animals. He said he decided to act after a friend showed him a picture of a bird with the strap of a blue disposable mask entangled around its leg.
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A. Rima Dael, General Manager of WSHU
George J. Lombardi, long-time general manager of WSHU Public Radio, based in Fairfield Connecticut and owned by Sacred Heart University, has retired, ending his 44-year tenure with the station. He has been succeeded by A. Rima Dael, a development and management executive with over 25 years of experience with nonprofit organizations in the public media, arts and education sectors.
“The WSHU of today is the station that George built, and Sacred Heart University is deeply grateful for his contributions to the university and to the community at large,” said Michael Iannazzi, vice president for marketing & communication and chief of staff at Sacred Heart University. “We are thrilled to have identified an extremely worthy and capable replacement in Rima. She is a leader who has already demonstrated her commitment to WSHU’s mission and will usher the station towards a vibrant future.”
Originally published on January 27, 2021 9:27 am
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The U.S. government has lifted a quarantine on an invasive insect, the emerald ash borer, that s killed many trees in Massachusetts and Connecticut. But critics of the change have been more vocal outside those states.
The emerald ash borer was first discovered in the U.S. in 2002 in Michigan. The federal government soon instituted a quarantine there on ash products, which restricted their movement unless the wood had been treated first.
The quarantine zone spread as the bug infested more states and with good reason. The insect can kill ash trees within three to five years, according to Tawny Simisky, an entomologist at UMass Amherst.