ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

ZBA rejects permit for Cedarville bog expansion
Board chair says the project’s scope was modified too dramatically for it to ‘make an honest decision’ on the proposal.
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Opponents of Hedges Pond business park file appeal to stop work
They cite ‘destruction of historic resources and the unceded ancestral lands of the Wampanoag people.’

It’s official: Bird flu presence in Plymouth confirmed by testing
Officials urge residents to continue taking precautions to limit spread of the disease.

He inherited a deadly condition that took his mother’s life. But buoyed by family and friends, Anthony Boccalini is hopeful.
With a transplanted kidney failing, a race is underway to find a new donor.

Holtec owns a valuable 1,600-acre parcel around the nuclear power plant site. What’s to become of it?
There are plenty of ideas being floated, but cutting a deal that involves the town buying some or all the land won’t be easy.

Saquish: So close, yet so far away for most
A newcomer sets out to explore the remote part of Plymouth beyond Duxbury Beach.

‘The entire hospital is short-staffed’
Beleaguered BID-Plymouth nurses complain that they have too many patients to care for. Hospital president Kevin Coughlin says it’s ‘aggressively’ trying to retain and recruit staff.

An overwhelmed Beth Israel Deaconess aims to ease the crunch with $116 million expansion
The hospital’s plans include doubling the size of its congested ER and opening a separate hematology-oncology center.

With snow in the forecast, parking ban set for 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday
A fast-moving storm is expected to bring the season’s first significant accumulation to most of Plymouth.

Avian flu believed to have spread to North Plymouth, Long Beach
Officials are concerned by report of dogs running unleashed in the vicinity of dead birds.

Plymouth’s apparent avian flu outbreak said to be state’s ‘largest ever’
Another 71 dead birds were retrieved from Billington Sea on Wednesday. Earlier, an entire backyard flock of chickens had to be euthanized.
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