BOSTON — A plan to charge drivers a fee for picking up or dropping off passengers at Boston’s Logan International Airport has been rejected by the agency overseeing the airport.
The aim of the proposal was to cut down on congestion and pollution. The Massachusetts Port Authority agreed to study the idea as part of an agreement with an environmental group. In exchange, the group agreed not to oppose a plan to add 5,000 parking spaces at the airport.
The Boston Globe reports the head of the authority told state officials on Monday that the agency will not move forward with the idea.
An official with the environmental group said other parts of the agreement, including expanded bus service, are more important for reducing congestion.
NORTHBOROUGH — Police have arrested a man they say ran around a middle school parking lot wearing nothing but a thong and twice exposed himself to a woman walking her dog.
Zachary Teplansky, of Northborough, was released on $1,000 bail after pleading not guilty Monday to charges including open and gross lewdness.
Police arrested the 21-year-old Teplansky after a woman called Sunday to say she was walking near the school when she encountered a man running laps in the parking lot.
She told police the man was wearing just a thong, which he pulled down twice.
When police arrived, Teplansky was dressed and said he was jogging, before telling officers “I plead the fifth.”
Teplansky’s attorney said it was a case of mistaken identity, and his client has no prior record.
PROVINCETOWN — Animal welfare officials in Massachusetts say a humpback whale previously entangled in Cape Cod Bay is now swimming free.
A Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises vessel reported the entangled whale Sunday about six miles off Provincetown, prompting a response from a Center for Coastal Studies’ Marine Animal Entanglement Response crew. The Cape Cod Times reports the crew worked to remove a line that went from the whale’s mouth to the tail stock.
They removed the line and the whale swam away and disappeared.
Humpback whales, frequent visitors to the waters of Cape Cod, are part of a federal inquiry called an “unusual mortality event” along the Atlantic coast.