Fort River Elementary School building plans advance in Amherst
Fort River Elementary School
Published: 2/12/2021 10:52:49 AM
AMHERST An expanded, renovated or rebuilt Fort River Elementary School, with significant financial support from the state, is moving to the feasibility stage.
The board of directors for the Massachusetts School Building Authority on Thursday invited Amherst, as well as Maynard and Winchester, into the next step in the process of getting a school project completed.
“These feasibility studies will carefully examine potential solutions to the issues identified at the school facilities and will help us develop the most cost-effective plan to address those issues,” State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg, chairwoman of the MSBA, said in a statement.
Healey appoints new commissioner to Mass. marijuana agency
Ava Callender Concepcion, a Dorchester attorney, will fill final vacant seat on Cannabis Control Commission
By Dan Adams Globe Staff,Updated January 12, 2021, 3:59 p.m.
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Ava Callender Concepcion has been appointed to the state Cannabis Control Commission by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.Handout
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Tuesday that her office has appointed Ava Callender Concepcion of Dorchester to the state Cannabis Control Commission, capping a series of recent changes to the makeup of the five-member marijuana agency.
Concepcion is an attorney who previously worked for state Senator William Brownsberger and, until September, served as the director of government affairs and external partnerships for Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. She will fill the commissionâs public safety seat, which was vacated by former commissioner Britte McBride l
Mass. legislative leaders to get three pay raises starting Friday
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated December 31, 2020, 7:07 p.m.
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The House chambers at the Massachusetts State House.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
State legislative leaders are entitled to three separate pay raises starting Friday, and the salaries of some of the stateâs top elected officials could swell by more than $9,000, thanks, in part, to a controversial law that will help ensure they get a third pay increase in as many legislative sessions.
The round of pay hikes land at an economically fragile time across Massachusetts, when restaurants, bars, and other businesses are struggling to stay open amid the coronavirus pandemic and the unemployment rate stands at 6.7 percent â more than double what it was a year ago.
Two new commissioners tapped for Massachusetts marijuana agency
Gaming commissioner, AT&T executive will join Cannabis Control Commission on Jan. 1
By Dan Adams Globe Staff,Updated December 15, 2020, 4:32 p.m.
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Nurys Camargo, right, will join the Cannabis Control Commission on January 1.David L. Ryan
State officials said they have appointed two new members of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, adding fresh faces to the agencyâs leadership for the first time since its creation in 2017.
Nurys Camargo, a regional AT&T executive who previously directed the youth violence prevention programs under the administration of former Governor Deval Patrick and founded a nonprofit to mentor Latinas, will assume the commissionâs social justice seat for a five-year term beginning January 1.