July 27, 2026 Submitted By Diane DeNapoli As Hingham prepares for what is expected to be a Special Town Meeting in late October 2026, where residents may be asked to approve more than $130 million in public infrastructure investments through the HMLP Transmission Project and the school roof replacement projects, we have an opportunity to …
July 24, 2026 Submitted By Glen Mangurian Brown lawns. Wilting plants. No car washing. No filling swimming pools. Once again, Hingham is living under strict water restrictions. Residents naturally ask the same question every summer: Where has all our water gone—and why doesn’t Boston seem to have the same problem? This summer has been exceptionally …
July 17, 2026 Submited By Jennifer Burtner It is July 16th folks, a week shy of the astronomical summer midpoint. The astronomical summer is the one based on the solstices and equinoxes. This year (2026), summer began on June 21 and ends on September 22 – so the midpoint between those dates falls on July …
July 15, 2026 Submitted By Glenn Mangurian Last week, I read the winning essay in the 2026 Annual Hingham Historical Essay Contest, sponsored by the Hingham Historical Society. First place was awarded to Sam Elizabeth Downs, a rising sophomore at Hingham High School, for “From Outsiders to Neighbors: The History of Italian Immigrants in Hingham”. …
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 …
