June 10, 2026 Submitted By Glenn Mangurian In 1987 my financial planner told me that private colleges would cost $40,000 per year. (At the time, their cost was $15,000 per year.) She was correct. Back in 2012 I wrote an essay, “Are you ready for $100,000 per year college?” I predicted that we were headed …
May 28, 2026 Submitted By Glen Mangurian Congratulations graduates! Some of you are graduating from high school and others from college. All of you should be proud of what you have achieved and of the knowledge and discipline that brought you here. Sixty years ago this month, I stood where you stand now. I don’t …
May 7, 2026 Submitted by Beth Rouleau, Member of the Center for Active Living Building Committee The CAL remains unchanged and its impact on the community will continue to narrow. The highly informed guiding path in support of the CAL remains. Submitted by Beth Rouleau, Vice Chair, Center for Active Living Building Committee; former Chair, …
May 6, 2026 By Hilary Hosmer With Town Meeting voters rejecting a proposal to build a new senior center in Bare Cove Park, local officials now face a pivotal question: what comes next? The vote on April 27, 2026 indicates that relying exclusively on municipally owned land—a constraint originally intended to simplify development and avoid …
May 5, 2026 Submitted By Richard A Norman As an 86-year-old long-term Hingham resident, I attended this year’s Town Meeting to vote on the proposed new Senior Center. I have never visited nor used the existing facilities at Town Hall. What I knew about the proposed new center came from the few opinion articles in …
May 5, 2026 Submitted By Jack O’Connor My name is Jack O’Connor, 7th grade at BC High, and I love to fish. I’m working on a big school project and it is to restock Fulling Mill Pond and make it more accessible to fish. Fulling Mill Pond, (Hingham, MA), nested in the heart of the …
April 24, 2026 submitted by Mary Anne Jackson, Hingham Resident, Past co-chair, Back River Watershed Assoc., Retired teacher Deep in the forest of the southern end of Hingham’s Bare Cove Park there is a fresh water ecosystem that is one of only three sources of fresh water for the Back River estuary, a mix of fresh …
Maureen Spillane (Left) April 23, 2026 Submitted By Maureen Spillane I have watched as many people have spoken for the seniors and what they want and need, in the same sentence where they say they don’t use the Center for Active Living. How then do they know what those who do utilize it or want …
April 22, 2026 Submitted By Marsha Stevens My name is Marsha Stevens, I live on Gardner Street. I am 80 years old. I am concerned about proposals that would irreparably change and further encroach on Bare Cove Park. I know that the proponents of these changes claim that the land to be built on isn’t …
April 22, 2026 By John Borger On February 27th, I was a tentative Yes vote on the new Center for Active Living (CAL). Then the world changed. Even if normal traffic eventually resumes on the Strait of Hormuz, the disruptions to date and those likely to come portend a sour economic outlook. Space precludes a …
