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SAUGUS — Public safety is heating up in Saugus.
The town will hire five new firefighters with nearly $885,000 from the state. The money comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant program.
It will allow the Saugus Fire Department to “increase firefighter presence” and decrease response time, which will allow them to better protect residents during emergencies, said Saugus Fire Chief Michael Newbury.
“Maintaining adequate staffing is absolutely critical for first responders,” said Newbury.
ANDOVER, Mass. — Congressman Seth Moulton joined war veterans for the 2019 Day of Service at Ironstone Farm in Andover on Sunday.
The departments will use the grant to purchase radios that will allow them to communicate with each other and other departments in the region at the scene of large fires.
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) voted in favor of two bills that would protect America’s coasts from offshore drilling, which is a direct threat to the state’s fishing and tourism economy and the critically-endangered North Atlantic right whale. The bills, The Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act and The Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act, both passed in the House of Representatives.
“No one trusts a leader who can’t decide who his enemies are. Burning through three national security advisors in two years, all of whom have fundamentally different views, shows the president doesn’t have a clue about national security.
Easthampton Fire Department Awarded Over $600k to Hire Four New Firefighters
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.