Liberty Utilities, which services a small southeastern pocket of Massachusetts, filed its rate hike request in June and is asking the Department of Public Utilities for permission to raise gas rates by about 55 percent on average.
Fall River
Posted inBook Review
Questioning competitiveness
Through 200 years of manufacturing in the South Coast communities of Fall River and New Bedford, Shaun Nichols outlines cycles of growth and decline in multiple industries, raising compelling and uncomfortable questions about regional economic development.
Posted inEducation
Charter school proposal roils South Coast
IT’S BEEN MORE than five years since the debate over charter schools in Massachusetts came front and center in the form of a high-profile ballot question that would have raised […]
Posted inPolitics
Correia declares victory in retreat
IT RINGS like an echo of the solution to the Vietnam War quagmire proposed by Vermont Sen. George Aiken — “declare victory and get out.” Fall River’s embattled mayor, Jasiel […]
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Correia declares victory in retreat
It rings like an echo of the solution to the Vietnam War quagmire proposed by Vermont Sen. George Aiken — “declare victory and get out.” Fall River’s embattled mayor, Jasiel […]
Posted inPolitics
Correia wins race to replace himself
“I AM SPEECHLESS,” declared Jasiel Correia — and he wasn’t the only one. The 29-year-old Fall River mayor had just been recalled from office — and then re-elected to that post […]
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Correia wins race to replace himself
“I am speechless,” declared Jasiel Correia — and he wasn’t the only one. The 29-year-old Fall River mayor had just been recalled from office — and then re-elected to that […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘I’ve done nothing wrong,’ declares Correia
AN UNSHAVEN JASIEL CORREIA, arrested by FBI agents earlier in the day, was led into a federal courtroom in Boston on Thursday afternoon in leg shackles and handcuffs, dressed in […]
Posted inPolitics
Correia arrested on federal fraud charges
FEDERAL AGENTS ARRESTED Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia early Thursday morning and charged him with defrauding investors in a company he started as a teenager, then using the money to “pay […]
Posted inPolitics
Fall River’s lightning rod
Photographs by Meghan Moore FALL RIVER MAYOR Jasiel Correia’s voice was scratchy and raw. It was March 13, the day after yet another nor’easter, and he had spent a good part […]
Posted inEducation
The faithful departed
It wasn’t that long ago that the Roman Catholic church was a spiritual, political, and social force in Massachusetts. With the influx of European immigrants beginning in the 19th century, […]
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The faithful departed
It wasn’t that long ago that the Roman Catholic church was a spiritual, political, and social force in Massachusetts. With the influx of European immigrants beginning in the 19th century, […]