Daniel Ackerman
Daniel Ackerman has left CAI.
In his time at the station he coverered the South Coast. He came to the station from Minnesota Public Radio, where he reported on science and the environment. Daniel has produced audio documentaries on a motley mix of topics, from the science of sewage to the history of automobile license plates. He holds a PhD in climate change ecology from the University of Minnesota. Daniel was a 2021-22 Report For America corps member.
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It was a tough year for Massachusetts cranberry growers.Most farmers saw below-average crops yields—some by as much as 40% according to Hilary Sandler, Director of the UMass Cranberry Station in Wareham.
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In an outbreak that began in late October, 78 people incarcerated and 23 staff at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Falconry — the practice of hunting with trained birds of prey — developed thousands of years ago in the Middle East and Central Asia. Joe Gomes is one of Massachusetts’s 40 permitted falconers currently hunting with birds like peregrine falcons, red-tailed hawks, great horned owls and other raptor species.
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Nick Bernier, a lawyer and former prosecutor for the Bristol County District Attorney, will run to become Bristol County Sheriff in next November’s election. He hopes to unseat 24-year incumbent Thomas Hodgson, who ran unopposed in the last sheriff’s election in 2016.
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Amid a housing shortage in the region, refugee resettlement agencies have struggled to secure places for incoming families to live. Helena DaSilva Hughes runs New Bedford’s Immigrant Assistance Center. She said people who own summer homes on the South Coast could help by renting out their houses for the winter months.
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New Bedford and Fall River are set to remain in separate congressional districts — at least for another ten years. The Massachusetts house and senate voted Wednesday to finalize the state’s once-per-decade redistricting plan.
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Pedestrians and cyclists will have an easier time crossing the Cape Cod Canal once the aging Bourne and Sagamore Bridges are replaced.
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Fifty-three people at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Monday. That total includes 47 people incarcerated and six security staff. Some at the jail say Bristol County isn’t doing enough to contain the outbreak, which began about three weeks ago.
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State lawmakers today heard testimony on newly proposed congressional district boundaries. The hearing was part of the decadal redrawing of districts following the U.S. Census. Today’s arguments centered on whether Fall River and New Bedford should join the same district.
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At least twenty-nine inmates at the Bristol Country House of Correction in Dartmouth have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks, according to Jonathan Darling, a spokesperson for the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office.