CTPost.com: Town officials have approved a measure that would allow the town to lease the lands beneath the Penfield Reef Lighthouse. The Representative Town Meeting last week passed a resolution that would allow the Penfield Reef Lighthouse Preservation Committee...

MVTimes.com: Chilmark, Massachusetts, selectmen on Tuesday took aim at the Massachusetts Estuaries Project, a state study to assess the health of coastal salt ponds. They criticized the cost of the study and wanted to know why it...

Inquirer & Mirror: A dolphin was spotted in Nantucket Harbor Tuesday morning swimming in circles near the Great Harbor Yacht Club docks. The New England Aquarium has been notified of the dolphin, and one of its biologists, Kurt Hood,...

TheHour.com: Police say a middle-aged homeless man who was found Saturday afternoon floating facedown in Five Mile River has died. Police hestitated Monday to release the victim’s name and age until all family members have been notified....

CTPost.com: The Connecticut Audubon Society has completed the installation of manmade beach dunes meant to halt erosion and create a habitat for endangered and threatened shore birds at Stratford Point. “This has never been done before on Long Island...

Newburyport News: It was one of the region’s biggest news stories for more than four years, but the dire TV broadcasts of destruction at the island’s ocean-battered beach center have vanished of late. That’s good news for Plum Islanders....

MVGazette.com: There is much ado over eelgrass. On the Vineyard the modest sea grass has brought dredging projects to a halt, thwarted would-be pier developers and has down-Island towns considering millions of dollars worth of sewering to restore water...

Tropical Storm Irene wasn’t near the storm boaters feared, but it did wreak plenty of havoc along the New England coast. Here’s a look at the storm’s aftermath through some of the news posts we ran in 2011. Irene...

Progressive Grocer: Sustainable seafood is no flash in the frying pan. All across the United States, supermarket operators and the companies that supply them are rolling out stringent programs to ensure that the product they offer green-minded consumers is...

 SouthCoastToday: A plan to remove the Hathaway Pond Dam is being halted as part of an agreement between the project’s petitioner, the Buzzards Bay Coalition, and its main opponent, Beaton, Inc., a cranberry grower abutting the dam. The 2...