Quotes of note: "heard around New England".

"It's unacceptable to think, with all this money poured into the cleanup, that we are still going to have sewage closings in Boston in the summer. Every time those beaches are closed, it's a major problem for people who don't have vacation options, who can't jump into the SUV and go to the Vineyard for the weekend."

Maine Advocacy Center Director Peter Shelley, who filed the original 1983 lawsuit to end the dumping of raw sewage into Boston Harbor, on suggestion by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority that goals for harbor swimming could be eased. Published in The Boston Globe.

"Rhode Islanders take note. The administration is on a spending spree, and appears willing to risk significant state resources to lock [RI] into a multi-million dollar commitment it doesn't want and can't afford."

Save the Bay Director of Advocacy Topher Hamblett, promising his group would fight any attempt by outgoing Governor Lincoln Almond to build a container port at Quonset.

"That train is headed for disaster, and the disaster, if it has to be cleaned up, will be at...