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Gloucester will receive a $3 million federal grant that will allow the city to move ahead with the construction of a flood barrier at its Water Pollution Control facility on Essex Avenue.
The city, with the assistance of its congressional delegation, secured the grant from the federal Economic Development Administration.
According to the office of U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, the grant will fund the final design, permitting and construction of a flood barrier at the facility that has been at the mercy of flooding and storm surge during major storms, such the one in March 2018.
Across the United States, 911 is the number to call in the case of emergencies, 211 is the number for local community services, and 511 is the number for transportation information.
Now, under a bill co-written by Rep. Seth Moulton and signed into law Saturday by President Donald Trump, Americans will have a new three-digit hotline, 988, to call if they have questions or concerns about the mental health of a loved one — or their own.
LYNN — Rep. Seth Moulton paid a visit to Camp Fire North Shore yesterday where he addressed the economic hardships that after-school programs like Camp Fire are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’ve supported about $100 million for childcare.” Moulton, the Democratic representative for the 6th Congressional district, told Camp Fire Executive Director Laurie Hamill. “We’re never going to get all of that. But obviously the Senate isn’t moving on it at all.”
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan House panel said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space and biotechnology were “making traditional battlefields and boundaries increasingly irrelevant” — but that the Pentagon was clinging to aging weapons systems meant for a past era.
A new research article identifies the strengths that students who are military veterans bring with them to higher education.
Katie Sullivan and Kay Yoon, both associate professors of communication at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, surveyed and interviewed 115 total student veterans at a large public university in the Southwest for the article, published in The Journal of Continuing Higher Education.
A bill to designate 988 as the three-digit telephone number for the national suicide hotline has passed in the House of Representatives and is headed to President Trump for signature, according to U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton's office.
SALEM, MASS. (WHDH) - Two Gold Star families in Salem are speaking out against remarks President Trump allegedly made about veterans and those serving in the military.
The controversial remarks prompted Congressman Seth Moulton to reach out to these families.
Moulton served four tours in Iraq and is a U.S. Marine.
The families told 7NEWS the remarks, if true, are an insult to their fallen children.
The Trump administration will cut the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 3,000 this month, a top military commander said in the country on Wednesday, a reduction from about 5,200 there now.
The move is part of President Trump’s effort to reduce the American military footprint in Iraq and Afghanistan before Election Day on Nov. 3, officials have said. The top U.S. commander in the Middle East, Gen. Frank McKenzie, said improvements in Iraq’s security forces allowed the U.S. to downsize.
Prominent veterans Friday called out President Trump’s “contempt” for the military, as Trump denied reports that he has repeatedly disparaged service members captured or killed in action.
The reports say Trump canceled a visit to a French cemetery for American servicemen killed in World War I, describing the graveyard as “filled with losers,” and complained after Senator John McCain’s death that flags had been lowered for the “loser” who spent five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
The U.S. Postal Service mailboxes that were removed across the city this weekend will be replaced.
The blue USPS collection boxes were collected from various locations in Gloucester this weekend, conjuring up concerns among some residents about why they were being taken. The boxes are being replaced with more secure boxes that have a slot as opposed to a pull-down handle.