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Quench your thirst for craft beer at the 13 best Boston breweries, taprooms, and beer halls
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Boston’s relationship with beer is a long and storied one (the Bell in Hand Tavern, said to be the oldest in America, poured its first drink in 1795). Still, some of the most inventive craft breweries here are decidedly modern, from Aeronaut’s...
EXCLUSIVE: Boston Mayor Opens City Hall Doors To Chinese Communist Party Members
The Daily Caller
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration appears to have a cozy relationship with a nonprofit that has repeatedly hosted members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Beijing’s intelligence network at City Hall, a Daily Caller News Foundation...
After months of construction, Wickford waterfront project nears end
Providence Journal - Rhode Island
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Construction at Wickford’s waterfront began last summer The project will cost about $2.5 million and be completed around September or early October Where there were once metal pilings, passersby will now see a handsome seawall NORTH KINGSTOWN – In...
Google signs 200MW fusion energy deal to power data centers by 2030s
Energy, Oil & Gas magazine - Florida
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July 9, 2025
Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest energy, oil and gas news. Google’s latest clean energy move is as bold as it is ambitious. The tech giant has secured an agreement to purchase 200 megawatts of carbon-free...
Immigrants are key to New Bedford’s fishing industry. Since January, some are on edge.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Grave is part of a long line of immigrants who help sustain the fishing industry in New Bedford, the most valuable fishing port in the country. But immigration crackdowns by the Trump administration across New England and in New Bedford, where...
For a decade, Massachusetts missed its spending goal for veteran-owned businesses
WGBH - Massachusetts
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July 9, 2025
Every year since 2015, Massachusetts has pledged to boost the value of state contracts going to veteran-owned businesses. The goal is 3% of state agency discretionary budgets. But every year since 2015, the state has fallen far short of that...
22 bucket list activities in Greater Boston, for visitors (and residents, too)
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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If you’re at a loss for what to do in a city as rich with history, culture, and sports as Boston, you might be looking in the wrong places. Here is our absolute bucket list of activities for visitors and residents alike. Some are beloved local...
5 things to do this weekend, including Stanley Whitney at the ICA and Boston Jerkfest
WBUR - Massachusetts
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Thursday, July 10The free concert series — a co-production of Berklee College of Music, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción and the city of Boston — kicks off this Thursday with Barbara Zamora Vargas. The Cuban singer is one of Boston’s jazz gems, a...
Crews battle 3-alarm fire at home under construction in Reading
WCVB Channel 5 Boston - Massachusetts
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July 9, 2025
Firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a home under construction in Reading, Massachusetts, early Wednesday.The home and a detached garage on Summer Avenue were engulfed in flames as crews arrived at 1 a.m. No injuries were reported in the...
Firefighters battling blaze at Reading home under construction
NECN - Massachusetts
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A fire broke out overnight at a home in Reading, Massachusetts. The Reading Fire Department says they responded to a report of a fire at a home on Summer Avenue that's under construction. Fire officials say a barn behind the home caught fire and...
Horace Mann School gets $5M grant to improve air quality, energy efficiency
The Salem News - Massachusetts
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SALEM — The Horace Mann Laboratory School recently received a $5 million Green School Works Grant through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The grant is expected to pay for an upgrade to school facilities to be more energy efficient and...
Bruins’ Newest Enforcer Explains Why He Signed in Boston
Heavy.com
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July 9, 2025
Bruce Bennett/Getty Images The Boston Bruins signed Tanner Jeannot to a polarizing five-year contract in NHL Free Agency. The Boston Bruins made a rather controversial move in NHL Free Agency this summer. Boston signed former Los Angeles Kings...
Chinese Black Panther II Robot Dog Breaks Speed Records; Mirror Me Challenges Boston Dynamics
Top News
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China's Black Panther II robot dog, developed by Shanghai-based startup Mirror Me, has made headlines by achieving speeds up to 10.3 meters per second during a televised demonstration. This feat not only surpasses competitors like Boston Dynamics'...
Jaylen Brown’s Boston Project Earns NBA Legend’s Respect as Celtics End Future Speculations
Essentially Sports
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July 9, 2025
Jaylen Brown didn’t need a championship parade to make his mark this summer. No, the Celtics star pulled off something far rarer as he made headlines for not dribbling a basketball. Instead, he invested in futures, literal ones, through his Bridge...
Seven boutique hotels in Boston to check out (that you won’t want to check out of)
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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The term “boutique hotel” gets used to describe nearly every pricey lodging option, but don’t be fooled. A true boutique hotel is small (150 rooms or less), needs to have an attentive staff, and, most of all, it has to have that essential quality...
Book lovers take note: These are the 10 best bookstores around Boston
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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What makes a good bookstore? A wide selection of titles, of course, a knowledgeable staff, a solid roster of literary events, that bookstore smell — all mandatory. But these shops, including some exceptional new players on the scene, made The...
Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the entire robotics industry
VentureBeat
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July 9, 2025
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Hugging Face, the $4.5 billion artificial intelligence platform that has become the GitHub...
Op-ed: Clean energy can’t come at the cost of clean water or local control
The Lowell Sun - Massachusetts
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July 9, 2025
In recent guest commentaries and a televised interview, Joe Curtatone — President of the Alliance for Climate Transition (ACT) and a registered lobbyist — applauded Massachusetts’ aggressive push for battery energy storage systems (BESS). He...
Innovent Technologies Leads the Way in Specialty Welding Services for High-Precision Industries
The AI Journal
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July 9, 2025
Innovent Technologies, a rapidly growing leader in advanced manufacturing solutions, is setting a new standard in specialty welding services tailored to the demands of high-precision industries. Peabody, Massachusetts, United States, July 9, 2025...
Massachusetts pizza chef named one of the best in the world
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 8, 2025
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — A Massachusetts pizza chef has been named one of the best in the world. Juan Gabriel Perez, the executive chef at Assembly Square’s ‘Posto’ ranked #54 at “The Best Pizza Awards 2025″ held in Milan, Italy. Chef Perez earned the...