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NEWBURYPORT — The city celebrated the return of William Shuttleworth Thursday morning after his 3,000-mile walk across the country in support of the nation’s veterans.
Shuttleworth, a 71-year-old Market Street resident and Air Force veteran, left Newburyport on May 15 with a 25-pound backpack and two trekking poles, kicking off a coast-to-coast walking tour to raise public awareness about the health care, housing and financial issues facing men and women who served in the U.S. military.
“Be not afraid to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares….” was the biblical exhortation chosen by Congressman Seth Moulton to anchor his remarks on immigration before a group of Bedford and Burlington residents at Temple Shalom Emeth on September 3. The Town Hall session was organized by Rabbi Susan Abramson and was well attended by local clergy, town officials, and activists from both towns concerned about the current immigration crisis.
Representative Seth Moulton had just dropped out of the presidential race, a decision he was bound to be asked about during a town hall-style meeting at iRobot’s headquarters in Bedford earlier this week.
But you know what issue dominated the conversation in the packed room? The escalating trade fight with China.
The tariff questions, it turns out, were much tougher to answer.
SALEM, Mass. – Today, Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) announced that the United States Department of Health and Human Services has released a new round of State Opioid Response Grants that includes $35,879,685.00 of congressionally-appropriated funding for the State of Massachusetts. The state and local governments will use these funds to expand access to treatment and support near real-time overdose data.
SALEM — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton got a first-hand look Tuesday at how trade wars are affecting a small local cheese shop just around the corner from his district office in Salem, and a small family-owned high-end carbon fiber bicycle manufacturer just over the bridge in Beverly.
Both businesses’ owners say they are getting squeezed by proposed or present tariffs.
For North Shore foodies, the Cheese Shop of Salem at 45 Lafayette St. is facing up to 100% tariffs on cheese, olives and other specialty food items coming from the European Union.
BOSTON — Local leaders are asking Congress to designate a national mental health emergency hotline to help those suffering from mental illness.
Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton is calling on Congress to pass The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which Moulton introduced with Utah Rep. Chris Stewart last week.
BOSTON — Suicide rates have reached their highest levels since the end of World War II, according to federal data, claiming an average of 20 lives a day.
Congressman Seth Moulton, D-Salem, says it's time to treat suicide like any other life-threatening public crisis, and he wants Congress to take the lead.
Moulton is co-sponsoring a proposal with Congressman Chris Stewart, R-Utah, that would establish a three-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline — 988.
“Dead in the Water,” a documentary about the impact of government regulations on the New England commercial fishing industry, will have an encore screening at the Chatham Orpheum Theater Saturday, Aug. 31, at 10 a.m.
Filmmaker David Wittkower will attend the showing, which will include a question and answer session with local fishermen.
The one-hour film was shown at the Orpheum a year ago and has since played at a number of festivals and won an award at a film festival in Alaska, said Wittkower. In all, the film has won nine awards.
LYNN — The city has been reimbursed $1.2 million in federal funds for repairs to the Seaport Landing Marina, which was devastated by a February 2013 blizzard.
The funds, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Federal Disaster Aid Program, will be supplemented by a $1 million investment into the 165-slip marina from the city. The grant was announced by U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton’s (D-Mass.) office on Wednesday.
Some Boston-based suicide prevention advocates are backing a bill co-sponsored by Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton that would make 988 the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Creating an easy-to-remember three-digit number for the crisis hotline would improve access to mental health support and end stigma attached to getting that help, according to Moulton. He's a veteran who recently publicly shared that he sought help for post-traumatic stress after doing four tours of combat in Iraq.