Category: Press Release
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MWRA TO INSTALL INTERIM FENCING AT ECHO BRIDGE
Work Will Require Brief Closure FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2007 CONTACTS: Ria Convery, 617-788-1105 or [email protected] The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority will install new interim chain link fencing to replace the snow fencing along the existing railings at Echo Bridge. Weather permitting, MWRA’s contractor, Steelco Fence of Needham Heights, will be installing a 4-foot…
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New DCR Commissioner
On Wednesday, May 23, 2007, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles named Richard Sullivan, currently mayor of Westfield, to be Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). He takes office June 11.
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Echo Bridge to Close to Pedestrians March 15, 2006: MWRA
What follows is the text of a memorandum sent to the Hemlock Gorge Reservation Site Supervisor by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) that Echo Bridge will be closed temporarily to pedestrians. MWRA Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2006 CONTACTS:Ria Convery, 617-788-1105 [email protected] ECHO BRIDGE CLOSED TO PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC Handrails a danger to…
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Senator Creem’s 1998 Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 1998Contact: Mark S. Fine (617) 722-1639 ECHO BRIDGE, HEMLOCK GORGETO RECEIVE FUNDS IN SENATE BUDGET Senator Creem encouraged by Senate supportfor important Newton projects Funding to rebuild the Echo Bridge in Newton Upper Falls and to protect hemlocks tree in the MDC’s Hemlock Gorge Preserve was included in two Senate…
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Echo Bridge, Hemlock Gorge to receive funds in senate budget
$60,000 was also allocated by Senator Creem to protect the reservation’s hemlock trees from the threat posed by the Wooly Adelgid beetle. The Wooly Adelgid, which is native to Asia, first appeared in the United States in 1924. Since that time, the beetle has infested more than 25 percent of the hemlock trees in the…
