Suffolk County, Boston | featured news

BOURNE, Mass. — One of the two main bridges to Cape Cod will be getting much-needed repairs. But fear not. Work should be completed before the summer vacation rush.Workers will replace damaged roadway joints on the 80-year-old Sagamore Bridge, the Cape Cod Time s reports.Lane closures will begin either March 27 or 28 before construction starts in early April, narrowing traffic down to one lane in either direction for 55 days.The Cape Cod Transit Authority is organizing a meeting about the lane closure for later this month.

MALDEN, Mass. — The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against a Boston-area nonprofit, saying that employees were illegally fired for trying to unionize.Human services agency Triangle Inc., dismissed three employees last August in a move that federal labor officials said was a summer-long effort to quash a union drive. Several employees of Triangle Inc. were trying to organize with SEIU Local 509, which represents human service workers and educators in Massachusetts.

STERLING, Mass. — A fire destroyed a two-story barn in Sterling, but spared a house, animal barn, and ice cream stand.
The Worcester Telegram reports the fire started next to Rota Spring Farm shortly after 6:00 p.m. Saturday evening, with four area fire departments and 24 firefighters responding to the blaze.

ORLEANS, Mass. — A popular fried clam shack on Cape Cod is awaiting its fate after a powerful nor'easter caused extreme beach erosion and put it at risk of collapse.The Orleans Board of Selectmen is expected to vote Monday on whether to raze Liam's seafood shack on Nauset Beach. The summertime eatery has been a staple for the Cape Cod beach crowd since it opened in the 1950s.

An MIT researcher hopes his study of fake news will encourage other scholars to take a closer look at why humans seem hard-wired to spread false news online and seek out ways to nudge people toward the truth.Data scientist Soroush Vosoughi’s work, published last week in Science, examined 126,000 “rumor cascades” of stories shared by 3 million people and found that the true stories took six times longer to reach 1,500 people than the fake ones, with false political stories going deeper, broader and ultimately reaching more people.

It may not have been March 14, but Pi Day festivities were in full swing at City Hall Plaza yesterday, where a crowd of Hub-area residents tried to make their mark in the Guinness World Records by tossing the most shaving cream pies at one time.

Tens of thousands of Bay State homes and businesses are still in the dark after last week’s damaging snowstorm blew through the region, with power utilities expecting all customers to be back online by midnight tonight.At 8 pm. last night, National Grid told its more than 18,200 customers without power that its hundreds of crews were doing all they could to bring the electricity back.

DENVER — The former Colorado governor behind Denver’s historic snubbing of the Olympics and the man who spearheaded the effort to stop Boston from hosting the Olympics think Colorado voters should be able to weigh in on whether Denver should host the Winter Games.Speaking at a community forum on Denver’s consideration of a possible 2030 bid yesterday, former Gov. Dick Lamm said democracies make up their minds by voting and said lawmakers should put a referendum on the ballot this fall.

At the heart of Friday’s killings of three women in a hostage standoff at a sprawling California veterans’ home was a single terrible irony: The three victims, including an Easton native, had devoted their lives, friends say, to helping the kind of traumatized veteran who authorities say took their lives.

In 2014, Gina Mercurio was looking to hire a teacher of restorative yoga — a slow-paced, therapeutic practice for people who have injuries or who simply need to wind down — when a colleague recommended Christine Loeber. Loeber showed up at Mercurio’s Petaluma, Calif., yoga studio for an interview, and after they sat and talked for two hours, Mercurio hired her on the spot.