The Tri-Town Fourth of July Parade returns after not taking place last year. Crowds lined Main St in Jay and Livermore Falls as the parade passed by. There were parade entry winners for most creative, Mario characters, and most patriotic, military truck, as well as judges choice, Red Hats float.
Scientists on Feb. 1 perform a necropsy on the right whale calf that washed up on Martha's Vineyard. It was the first right whale that died while entangled in Maine lobstering rope, though officials have not confirmed whether the rope caused the mammal to die.
Scientists gather for the necropsy of the North Atlantic right whale found dead in late January off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
The 20,000-pound right whale was towed to the northern harbor of Martha's Vineyard in January before it was trucked to another part of the island for a necropsy.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official walks past the body of a right whale that washed up on a Martha's Vineyard beach in January.
The right whale identified as "5120" was discovered washed up dead on Martha's Vineyard on Jan. 28.
Surveyors spotted the entangled right whale again in January 2023, this time in Cape Cod Bay. The team made several attempts to remove the ropes constricting the whale's tail and flukes but could not free the animal. It was the last attempted disentanglement before the whale washed up dead on the coast of Martha's Vineyard one year later.
The right whale calf found dead on Martha's Vineyard last month is seen in April 2021. The calf had been entangled in Maine lobstering gear, federal regulators said. (Photo courtesy of the Center for Coastal Studies/NOAA permit #19315-01)
A tugboat prepares to pull 5120 off the Edgartown beach. IFAW researchers affixed a buoy to her flipper to keep track of the whale.
All the rope that was examined after a North Atlantic right whale was found dead in late January off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
This section of rope with a purple zip tie nub was found entangled on a North Atlantic right whale whose body was found at the end of January off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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