Unprecedented attendance expected at Town Meeting!

  By Carol Britton Meyer, April 9, 2019 Plan to arrive at Town Meeting extra-early this year! The proposed water system acquisition issue is expected to draw an unprecedented number of voters to the April 22 Town Meeting, and a plan is in place to accommodate up to 3,950 participants if necessary rather than the …

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Hingham Library Upcoming Events – Week of APRIL 11, 2019

Guitar concert; family vacation fun MEET THE AUTHOR EVENTS Afternoon with the Author: Saturday, April 20, 2 p.m. Eamon Earls will talk about the Geologic History of Hingham, answering questions such as: Why do the rocks beneath Hingham have more in common with Africa than North America? What happened to mountains taller than the Himalayas right …

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Attention, voters: Absentee ballot/town election update

By Carol Britton Meyer, April 6th 2019 If you expect to be out-of-town during the Saturday, April 27, town election, be sure to pick up an absentee ballot in the Town Clerk’s Office now through noon on Friday, April 26. Absentee ballots can be filled out there. For more details, call the Town Clerk’s Office, …

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Snapshot: Broadstone Beal Street project underway

By Carol Britton Meyer, April 6th 2019   The four-story, 220-unit Broadstone rental housing development at 230 Beal Street adjacent to Lynch Field and across from Lincoln Plaza got the green light from the Zoning Board of Appeals in June 2017 following a long review process. The project is under construction at this time. The …

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Work resumes on colorful downtown mural

By Carol Britton Meyer, April 6th 2019 From left to right, Hingham artist Susan Kilmartin, and Hingham High juniors,Gwen Moyer, Jackson Carroll, and Isabella MacNaughton Work on the historically-themed mural that’s being painted on the back and side of the Hennessy News building in downtown Hingham is back on track. Hingham High and South Shore Charter …

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OPINION: “A rapid reply to misleading promises on the water company purchase”

April 6, 2019 by Edna English   Control of the water resource:  WE WON’T have control.  The Department of Environmental Protection controls the resource. The Selectmen will control the rates, and ratepayers will lose the protection of the Department of Public Utilities that acts as a consumer protection agency regulating rates, preventing unnecessary expenditures, and enforcing maintenance …

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OPINION: “What Price Control”

April 6, 2019 by Catherine Salisbury The Hingham Board of Selectmen’s decision to go it alone with regard to Hingham’s statutory option to purchase the assets of Aquarion Water Company is the option that puts Hingham taxpayers at greatest risk. Although it is the expectation that water bill revenues from Hingham, Hull and Cohasset rate-payers will pay off …

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