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Today's Local News in Local MA Newspapers

• New Bedford Standard Times: Local Stories
  
  
• Cape Cod Times: Local Stories
  
  
• Boston Globe: South Edition
  
  
• The Wanderer
  A weekly newspaper serving the communities of Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester in Southeastern Massachusetts.
  
  
• Capenews.net
  The online version of the Enterprise Newspapers serving Bourne, Falmouth, Sandwich, and Mashpee, MA
  
  
• Old Colony Memorial
  MPG Newspaper serving Plymouth, MA
  
  

Local Broadcast Media with posted web stories

• ABC6 TV
  
  
• WCVB-TV Online
  
  
• WHDH-TV
  
  

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Selected Articles From Area Newspapers on the BBP or Buzzards Bay Environment

{note: generally only NB Standard Times articles are posted here because they are the only area paper that keeps archives publicly available, at no cost to the public}

• NBST- 7/3/08: Lawmakers' letter urges tougher oil spill law
  
  
• NBST- 6/18/08: Con Com gets new part-time agent
  
  
• NBST- 5/12/08: State biologists on red tide alert
  
  
• NBST- 4/27/08: When blue turned black
  
  
• NBST- 1/21/08: 6 communities to benefit from estuary grants
  
  
• NBST- 7/6/07: Wareham Land Trust adds 68-acre parcel
  
  
• NBST- 4/4/07: Westport Schools are tackling high school dropout problem
  
  
• NBST- 11/21/07: Coalition for Buzzards Bay spreading the word about oil spills
  
  
• NBST- 8/13/07: More than half of Bristol County beaches exceed bacteria limits
  
  
• NBST- 7/12/07: Coliform counts keep Mattapoisett's Shining Tides closed to shellfishing
  
  
• NBST- 9/10/07: Memorial Park plan sparks veterans concerns
  
  
• NBST- 4/18/07: Wareham Town Meeting to tackle budget
  
  
• NBST- 4/11/07: Nitrogen loading subject of Wareham Land Trust session
  
  
• NBST- 2/26/07: INSIDE SCIENCE: Smart development protects the bay
  
  
• NBST- 3/8/04: Bay group disputes spill data
  
  
• NBST- 11/8/04:Town garners state funds toward Eel Pond cleanup.
  
  
• NBST- 3/8/04:Bay group disputes spill data.
  
  
• NBST- 7/26/04:Watchdog sees through underestimate by Bouchard.
  
  
• NBST- 7/29//04:Coast Guard memo: Oil spill likely closer to 98,000 gallons.
  
  
• NBST- 4/21/04:Grants available for Buzzards Bay towns.
  
  
• NBST- 5/27/04:A second chance for quahogs.
  
  
• NBST- 11/8/04:Volunteers aim to bring tidal waters to marsh .
  
  
• NBST- 5/23/03: The foot soldiers in oil spill response.
  
  
• NBST- Construction moratorium meeting scheduled for tomorrow: 9/ 24/ 2003
  
  
• NBST- Buzzards Bay program hands out federal funding: 7/20/03
  
  
• NBST- Wareham must tackle nitrogen issue: 10/ 26/ 2003
  
  
• NBST- Wareham has a chance to lead : 10/ 26/ 2003
  
  
• NBST- Celebrate Buzzards Bay to make splash Saturday: 7/16/03
  
  
• NBST- 5/23/03: The foot soldiers in oil spill response
  
  
• NBST- 6/6/03: Survival rate slim for birds after oil spill
  
  
• NBST- 5/20/03: Spill numbers expected to be revised up
  
  
• NBST- 7/30/03: Tihonet Pond South project avoids bylaw roadblocks
  
  
• NBST- 6/9/03: Oil could sully shores for years
  
  
• NBST- 5/23/03: Reopened beds listed
  
  
• NBST- 8/14/02: Tihonet Pond plan delayed until drainage is tested
  
  
• NBST- 10/2/02: Makepeace considers alternative suggestions
  
  
• NBST- 9/10/02: Tihonet Pond development options on table
  
  
• NBST- 5/2/02: Town hopes to win grant to deal with stormwater runoff
  
  
• NBST- 3/20/02: Town of Wareham and Lands Trust protect 66 acres along Weweantic River.
  
  
• NBST- 3/13/02: Coalition starts lecture series on the environment.
  
  
• NBST- 3/1/02: Sippican Lands Trust helps protect 246 acres as open space.
  
  
• NBST- 2/11/02: Proposed Mattapoisett Golf Club raises concerns.
  
  
• NBST- 2/11/02: Buzzards Bay Watershed Team video hits the road.
  
  
• NBST- 12/10/01: Progress continues on Town of Marion sewage treatment facility upgrade.
  
  
• NBST- 12/26/01: Westport dairy Farmer takes action to protect environment.
  
  
• NBST- 10/14/01: Growth issues dominate agendas of Buzzards Bay watershed Town Meetings.
  
  
• NBST- 10/16/01: Marion voters ok funds for sewage treatment facility upgrade.
  
  
• NBST- 7/9/01: Progress on Wareham sewage treatment facility upgrade.
  
  
• NBST- 3/27/01: Dairy Farmer settles lawsuit on pollution cleanup.
  
  
• NBST- 12/10/01: Estuaries project will create vital planning tool
  
  
• NBST- 1/24/01: Sludge plans stir harbor concerns
  
  
• NBST- 6/04/00: Higher profile, more controversy
  
  
• NBST- 3/17/00: Nine communities win wetlands grant
  
  
• US EPA Coastlines Article 12/00: BBP's Broad Marsh River stormwater remediation project.
  
  
• CCT 9/13/00: Boat Sewage No Discharge designation: Consequences for Cape Cod waters.
  
  
• NBST- 8/5/00: BBAC: Buzzards Bay declared a no-discharge zone.
  
  
• NBST- 8/5/00: Marion beaches reopened.
  
  
• NBST- 8/5/00: Motor oil contaminates Clark's Cove.
  
  
• NBST- 7/28/00: Another Myster Oil Spill in New Bedford Harbor.
  
  
• NBST- 7/27/00: Coalition for Buzzards Bay festival to celebrate the Bay.
  
  
• NBST- 7/23/00: Oil Spills in Buzzards Bay: Preparing for the worst.
  
  
• NBST- 7/13/00: Coalition's Buzzards Bay Swim: Plunge to save the bay.
  
  
• NBST- 6/20/00: BBAC: Buzzards Bay might become no-discharge zone.
  
  
• NBST- 6/1/00: Coalition's Director Rasmussen Rebuttal to S-T editorial On Mattapoisett Sewering.
  
  
• CCT 4/15/00: BBAC: Bilge Sock Article.
  
  
• NBST- 3/18/00: Buzzards Bay Action Committee seeks to ban boat discharge.
  
  
• NBST- 3/17/00: BBP awards $21,000 in wetlands grants.
  
  
• NBST- 3/10/00: Coalition awards Buzzards Bay Guardian Awards.
  
  
• US EPA Coastlines Article 2/00: BBP's Tidally Restricted Salt Marsh atlas.
  
  
• NBST- 2/13/00: BBP effort to protect open space.
  
  
• NBST- 2/8/00: Coalition: Buzzards Bay ecosystem lecture series.
  
  
• NBST- 2/8/00: BBP helps Wildlands Trust gain 13 acres.
  
  
• NBST- 12/22/99: Len Gonsalves and BBAC given Visionary Award
  
  
• CCT 12/11/99: Coalition receives $130,000 gift for Baykeeper Boat.
  
  
• NBST- 12/16/99: Coalition for Buzzards Bay proposes "Bay Keeper" patrol
  
  
• NBST- 9/19/99: Eel Pond Mattapoisett Suffers from Too Many Nutrients
  
  
• NBST- 9/26/99: Buzzards Bay Fish Populations
  
  
• CCT 9/26/99: Proposed Makepeace Development in Wareham Plymouth and Carver.
  
  
• NBST- 6/25/99: New Buzzards Bay NEP report maps area marshes
  
  
• NBST- 6/13/99: Wareham STF: Steps to clean Agawam won't be cheap
  
  
• NBST- 5/16/99: Slocums River water quality article
  
  
• NBST- 5/2/99: Eutrophication of Buzzards Bay waters
  
  
• NBST- 5/2/99: Drift Road dairy farm helps put Westport River on critical list
  
  
• CCT 3/15/99: Article on BBP Septic System Test Center.
  
  
• CCT 7/13/98: Free Beach Garbage Bag Project by Coalition for Buzzards Bay.
  
  
• NBST- 7/7/98: Summit on Sewer overflows
  
  
• NBST- 7/3/98: Coalition Baywatchers water quality monitoring program
  
  
• NBST- 7/2/98: Heavy Rains close clam beds, cause shortages
  
  
• NBST- 4/17/98: State gives sewer expansion loan to Dartmouth
  
  
• NBST- 7/5/97: UMass opens CMAST Marine Science Center
  
  
• NBST- 5/18/98: BBP Planner Mark Rasmussen, leaves Project to head Coalition
  
  
• NBST- 5/18/98: EPA Region I Administrator John Devillars writes about Buzzards Bay
  
  
• NBST- 4/4/98: Buzzards Bay NEP visits newly protected Wareham Parcel
  
  
• NBST- 3/6/98: Buzzards Bay NEP signs MOU with Action Committee and Coalition
  
  
• NBST- 3/5/98: Area towns receive CZM grants (state match for BBP funding)
  
  
• NBST- 1/30/97: Grants awarded to Dartmouth, Wareham
  
  
• NBST- 3/20/96: Coalition Annual meeting, Dr. Costa Keynote speaker
  
  
• NBST- 7/25/96: Buzzards Bay NEP awards grants to towns
  
  
• NBST- 6/25/95: Volunteers construct wetland in Marion
  
  
• NBST- 6/22/96: Project awards grants to towns
  
  
• NBST- 7/3/96: Alternative septic system project in Dartmouth
  
  
• NBST- 7/28/96: Fairhaven gets $6500 for boat pump-out facility
  
  
• NBST- 2/8/96: Mattapoisett will apply for BBP grant for Open Space Plan
  
  
• NBST- 6/11/96: BBP helps Brittany Dye secure $425,000 grant
  
  
• NBST- 10/30/96: BBP helps Mattapoisett study stormwater problem
  
  
• NBST- 3/28/96: "Nitrogen choking bay", Results of Project-Coalition water quality report
  
  
• NBST- 5/16/96: Wetlands line controversy in Mattapoisett
  
  
• NBST- 5/23/96: Mattapoisett wetlands line, Part II
  
  
• NBST- 3/31/96: Land rush is on, Open space planning
  
  
• NBST- 3/22/96: Coalition for Buzzards Bay issues town report cards
  
  
• NBST- 3/18/96: Open space purchase in Mattapoisett coming to a vote
  
  
• NBST- 12/20/96: Editorial on land use planning
  
  
• NBST- 3/22/96: Seth Garfield editorial on 3 Bay organizations
  
  
• NBST- 10/23/96: Mattapoisett Dam project need
  
  
• NBST- 11/24/96: "Baywatchers" report findings
  
  
• NBST- 2/17/96: "PALMS" project, work of Coalition for Buzzards bay
  
  
• NBST- 11/3/95: Kalisz's first try for Mayor
  
  
• NBST- 10/22/95: Funding for Mattapoisett River dam project
  
  
• NBST- 6/8/95: Star Plating gets toxic use reduction award
  
  
• NBST- 6/18/95: Article at heat of Title 5 debate, good to examine in retrospect
  
  
  
  

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