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South Shore Country Club update: Pool unlikely to reopen next summer
September 18, 2019 By Carol Britton Meyer The South Shore Country Club pool has been a popular summertime gathering place for many years, but a recent safety engineering report indicates that the pool and a portion of the maintenance facility underneath it are in such a deteriorating condition that they will need to be taken …
Rock Out at the 5th Annual Mad Love Music Festival
For the fifth year in a row the Mad Love Music Festival will be returning to the Jane Carr Amphitheater at the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham on Sunday, October 13, from 11 am to 5 pm. The 2019 Mad Love line up of rock bands, include: Toast, Quadrafunk, Dionysia, Dalton & the Sheriffs, SixFoxWhiskey …
League of Women Voters of Hingham Launches Active Season
September 12, 2019 submitted by the Hingham League of Women Voters On Sunday, September 15 from 4 – 6 pm, the Hingham chapter of the League of Women Voters will launch its 2019/20 program year, with a fun and informative gathering at the Hingham Community Center, 70 South Street. This is a great opportunity to …
Community Preservation Act Funding Requests: World’s End Visitors Center, Benjamin Lincoln House Purchase, Affordable Housing, and 10 others
September 12 by Carol Britton Meyer The Community Preservation Committee has its work cut out for this round of Community Preservation Act funding, tasked as they are with choosing which of $3.2 million-worth of proposals to recommend to Town Meeting out of the estimated $1.6 to $1.8 million that will be available after the state …
Academic Excellence and Support Center opens at Saint Paul School
Academic Excellence and Support Center Director Amy Barnes looks forward to working with the Saint Paul School students and classes this school year. September 11, 2019 submitted by Saint Paul School Saint Paul School, in Hingham, is thrilled to provide its students enhanced academic programming through its new Academic Excellence and Support Center. Over the …
Driver Discards Crack Cocaine Following Crash in Hingham
A 58 year-old Hull man was arrested after being involved in a crash last Tuesday. At the scene he told Officers he had thrown a bag of crack cocaine under his truck after the crash. He admitted to have just smoked crack. Both he and the other driver were both transported to the hospital by …
Hingham Health Department Warns About the Dangers of Vaping and Using E-Cigarettes
Nearly half of Massachusetts high school students have tried e-cigarettes at least once and nearly one quarter of them reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, a rate nine times higher than adults, according to the latest statewide data on the health and risk behaviors of Massachusetts youth. In an alarming comparison, more high …
Update: Historical Sign Installed at Harborfront — More to Come
September 10, 2019 by Carol Britton Meyer The first of three harborfront signs depicting some of the rich history of Hingham’s waterfront was installed Monday. The Hingham DPW has the remaining two signs and will install them soon. This is an opportunity for those who visit Hingham Harbor “to explore Hingham’s pertinent history and to …