Photo by Joshua Ross Feb. 24, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Nearly 220 callers were on the line last night to listen to Supt. of Schools Paul Austin’s detailed $62 million Fiscal 2022 proposed budget presentation to the selectmen and advisory committee, with the school committee also participating. Selectmen Chair Mary Power noted that the …
February 23, 2021 from the Hingham Police Department For the second time in ten days, bank employees prevented an elderly resident from being scammed out of money that she was going to send to scammers. On February 22, 2021, an Officer was dispatched to the Hingham Institution for Savings branch located in the Linden Ponds …
February 23, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer The school committee last night unanimously approved during a remote meeting the school administration’s proposal for all non-remote K-5 students to return to school full-time (five days a week) on or before March 15, with students in grades 1 to 5 attending full days — with physical distancing in …
Photo courtesy of Christina O’Connor February 22, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Christina O’Connor, a Hingham High School history teacher for the past 19 years, is pleased to be among the 15 educators who applied for, and were chosen to participate in, a partnership between National History Day and the Library of Congress to create …
2020-2021 Patriot League Champions Saturday, February 20, 2021 – Story by Jake Bednarski/Joshua Ross, photos by Joshua Ross Hingham and Marshfield met in the final game of the boys hockey Patriot Cup in Bourne, Massachusetts on Friday night. Due to the lack of a State Playoffs and the Super 8 Tournament, this was the last …
February 19, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer The Hingham Police Department is repurposing funds from its capital budget to bridge a deficit between the cost of replacing the planned purchase of seven new police cruisers with seven Ford hybrid police vehicles instead. “The cost of the cruisers increased from when we originally put in our …
Gary Tondorf-Dick has been asked to fulfill the vacancy on the planning board until the next election (courtesy photo). February 19, 2021, Submitted by Gary Tondorf-Dick Dear Fellow Hingham Resident, I am running for re-election to the Hingham Planning Board and I would like to ask you for your vote and support for my fourth …
February 18, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer There’s a potential four-way race for retiring Town Clerk Eileen McCracken’s seat now that Thomas Patch has pulled nomination papers for that position. There’s already a confirmed three-way race for town clerk in the May 1 town election among Laura Marwill, Libby Lewiecki, and Carol Falvey. Lewiecki is …
February 19, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Following a lengthy discussion this week about a Town Meeting warrant article asking voters to support spending a potential $5.5 million for the reconstruction of the deteriorating town pier by the Iron Horse Statue at the harbor to address safety issues and potential flooding from expected sea-level rise, …
Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash February 18, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer The number of new Hingham COVID-19 cases reported each Thursday has decreased over the past few weeks. For the fifth week in a row, Hingham remains in the medium-risk COVID-19 “yellow” zone, with 46 new cases since the Feb. 11 Massachusetts Department …
