Plymouth

When we first met Aaron Maloy 20 years ago, he was fresh out of college, and still emerging from a life spent in foster care from the age of 12. Today, he’s a nurse practitioner, with his own practice in Plymouth. But his master’s-level credential makes him an outlier. People who have been in foster care are some of the most educationally disadvantaged in the United States, even on Cape Cod.

The 70-mile walk will conclude at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility—the only place in the state that detains immigrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is reviewing the adjudicator's nearly 60-page recommended decision, which only she has the authority to finalize. Once she acts, the matter could go to court.

For the health study, researchers will place air monitors in several locations around the community. Then, they'll compare people who live in the most highly affected areas with a control group.

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station plans to drain radioactive water from two areas of the plant in April, leading to reduced evaporation of the water.

The process seems to be moving much slower than at Vermont Yankee, according to a Department of Public Health representative on the state's nuclear panel. At Pilgrim, a dispute over the disposition of radioactive water has led to delays.

The contingent included members of environmental groups, along with associations representing fishermen, charter captains, and the real estate industry. They asked the Healey administration to stop the ongoing evaporation of reactor water from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

Longtime employee David Noyes, who started at Pilgrim in 1989 and still works there — now as a compliance manager for Holtec — remembers being at the plant on the last day of operations.

Over a period of two years, sponsorship of parades and other community events was charged to the ratepayer-funded account. The company says it was a mistake.

A long list of changes would include shrinking the panel from 21 to 15 members, adding more state officials, and placing more emphasis on redevelopment of the Pilgrim property.