Patrick McGuire of Brookline High School collaborates with WHOI to develop TideRider, a low-cost coastal water quality monitoring robot funded by Woods Hole Sea Grant.
The Baker-Politio administration is awarding nearly $800,000 in federal grant money to help towns and organizations protect water quality in Buzzards Bay.
The Buzzard's Bay Coalition has recieved a lion's share of the grants - $200,000 - to partner with Wareham, Bourne, Plymouth, and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy to evaluate the feasability of moving the Wareham Wastewater Treatment Facility.
The Baker-Polito administration announced on Thursday that $400,000 in grants will be awarded to six coastal communities, including two here on the Southcoast.
The New Bedford Department of Public Health has announced that sections of East and West Beaches have been reopened for swimming as of Thursday, and the beach inside Fort Tabor Park has been reopened as well.
Those beaches were closed on Tuesday and Wednesday because of elevated bacteria levels caused by heavy rain...