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Bristol County Savings Donates Time Across Region
Bristol County Savings Bank (BCSB), headquartered in Taunton, recently held its fourth annual BCSB CARES: Employee Volunteer Day. The Bank closed all its offices, and more than 300 Bank employees, along with its affiliates, Bristol Wealth Group and Milestone Mortgage Solutions, spent the afternoon giving back at 18 different sites across the Bank’s service area in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The organizations served by this year’s Employee Volunteer Day included: My Brother’s Keeper, Old Colony Habitat for Humanity and the Hockomock Area YMCA.
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AAA Warns on 'Ticket' Scam
A new text message scam demanding money for unpaid traffic tickets is circulating across the region according to AAA. The text message states that the recipient has an outstanding traffic ticket and will be subject to several penalties if the payment isn’t made by a certain date. The penalties detailed in the text message include being added to the RMV violation database, suspension of vehicle registration and suspension of driving privileges for 30 days, among other actions, followed by a link for payment.
This new traffic ticket scam comes after a similar E-ZPass scam in which text messages demanded money for unpaid tolls.
Courts Support MBTA Zoning Laws
A Massachusetts Superior Court found that the MBTA Communities Law does not impose an unfunded mandate on cities and towns. The judge granted the Attorney General’s motions to dismiss nine lawsuits filed by the towns of Duxbury, Hanson, Holden, Marshfield, Middleton, Wenham, Weston, and Wrentham and by residents of Hamilton. The judge also denied the towns’ and residents’ motions for a preliminary injunction that sought to exempt them from their obligation to comply with the law.
