| By 2010, Massachusetts wants to reduce municipal solid waste by 70 percent statewide. |
| Massachusetts is the southernmost part of their breeding range, since they are truly Arctic birds. |
| The air rights for these parcels are the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which is the agency overseeing the Big Dig. |
| The butcher-bird is today's loggerhead shrike, found only rarely anywhere in Massachusetts now. |
| Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York observed Labor Day on the first Monday in September that year. |
| Massachusetts in 1842 became the first state to commence comprehensive registration of births, deaths, and marriages. |
