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Lawyer finds no wrongs yet in Steamship Authority probe
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NANTUCKET -- A lawyer hired by the Steamship Authority to
investigate a former employee's allegations of wrongdoing by senior
authority officials reported yesterday that he had found no substance
to two of her charges.
William G. Meserve, an attorney with the Boston law firm Ropes &
Gray, told Steamship Authority board members that he found "no
evidence of deliberate document destruction," as alleged by former
authority marketing manager Deborah Hughes.
Hughes alleged last week ...
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Forward steps in New Bedford
The Boston Globe
; New Bedford has seemed like an urban Willy Loman -- trying to get ahead but doomed to fail. The city's old dream of a casino that would bring money and jobs was a shoddy quick fix that would have dragged a nasty trail of pollution, traffic, and crime behind it. But these days New Bedford is
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Ill will marks stalemate over New Bedford ferry
The Boston Globe
; NEW BEDFORD -- State Pier extends its barren finger 700 feet into wide New Bedford Harbor, a battered relic of better days when cargo- heavy freighters would churn through the Hurricane Dike and stoke the commerce of this historic port. Now the pier is a platform for a rusting, yawning, underused
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Steamship Authority, New Bedford at odds.
The Boston Herald
; A simmering dispute between the Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Woods Hole Steamship Authority and the city of New Bedford over freight shipping flared up yesterday, as a Steamship Authority marketing director said she was fired for blowing the whistle on the boat line. Debbie Hughes said she lost
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Steamship Authority OK's new freight plan Proposal blasted in New Bedford
The Boston Globe
; Reacting to pressure to relieve traffic congestion on Cape Cod and offer a helping hand to New Bedford, the Steamship Authority has voted to begin freight service in May 2000 from an off-Cape port to the islands. But what the Steamship Authority sees as a win-win plan, New Bedford officials see as
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Oceans apart on ferry proposal Where New Bedford sees potential for profit, some islanders see potential for trouble
The Boston Globe
; NEW BEDFORD -- It was a businessman from Nantucket named Joseph Rotch who founded the city of New Bedford in the 1760s. But mention the word Nantucket to people in New Bedford these days and you're apt to get a response verging on the unprintable. The two communities are engaged in kind of war, and
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NEW BEDFORD BIDS AGAIN FOR VOTE PROPOSED MEASURE WOULD REORGANIZE AUTHORITY BOARD
The Boston Globe
; The longtime battle between the city of New Bedford and the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority heads to Beacon Hill today for a Legislative vote that could decide whether New Bedford gains an important vote or merely a seat on the authority's board. The vote will center
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Islanders see threat in mainlanders' hope New Bedford leaders say objections to added ferry service are insulting
The Boston Globe
; The economically depressed city of New Bedford sees dollars in freight-carrying ferry service to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, but wary islanders see a Trojan horse instead. New Bedford sees a bolstered waterfront, more jobs, and other commercial benefits in proposed legislation to provide
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MOOD SWING NEW BEDFORD'S FIGHT FOR FERRY SERVICE IS ABOUT SHOWING RESIDENTS OF THIS OLD MILL CITY THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LOSE ANY MORE BATTLES
The Boston Globe
; NEW BEDFORD - On the bus ride into New Bedford along Route 140, 150 years of local history flits by. The old textile mills loom above the road, abandoned and menacing, as masts of New Bedford's fleet bob along the distant waterfront. Low, green, barracks-like apartment buildings with broken windows
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Nantucket and Vineyard should be wary of New Bedford ferry plan
The Boston Globe
; Eric T. Turkington, a Democrat, is a state representative from Falmouth. Our two small islands, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, recognized worldwide as ecological and historical treasures, have been subjected to intense pressures from huge influxes of people, money, and notoriety in the past 10
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NEW BEDFORD TO SUE ON FERRY SERVICE
The Boston Globe
; In the latest salvo in its escalating battle to carry freight and passengers to the islands, the City of New Bedford plans to file suit in US District Court today in a bid to smash the monopoly of the Steamship Authority. The lawsuit asks the court to allow all federally approved vessels to carry
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