April 30, 2021 by Brooks Robbins If you have lived in Hingham a while, you or a member of your family likely knew Pete – an institution in this town. He owned and operated Pete’s Barber Shop for many decades in Hingham Center. Moms, dads, and kids stopped by to get haircuts with uninterrupted regularity. …
Photo courtesy of Bill Reardon April 27, 2021, Submitted by William Reardon, Chair of the Harbor Development Committee Citizens who have walked or driven to the Harbor area for any of the high or ‘king’ tides in the last several years, and especially those who saw the results of the two March 2018 winter storms, …
Photo courtesy of Tim Miller-Dempsey April 26, 2021, Submitted by Tim Miller-Dempsey, Candidate for Hingham School Committee I am extremely proud to have been a public school teacher for the past 23 years. I live and teach a stone’s throw from the “City on a Hill” where public education first started in America, and believe …
A Gathering of Neighbors Preparations are underway for Hingham’s Annual Town Meeting. Imagine your neighborhood of about twenty households getting together to hire landscapers and snow plowing. Then imagine your neighborhood combines with other neighborhoods to purchase other shared services and set rules for the combined neighborhoods. As the number and scope of shared services …
April 9, 2021 by Glenn Mangurian “I am not throwin’ away my shot I am not throwin’ away my shot Hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young, scrappy and hungry And I’m not throwin’ away my shot” – Alexander Hamilton from “Hamilton” Have you received your Covid shot yet? I received my second …
Laurie Freeman, Hingham Net Zero April 13, 2021, Submitted by Laurie Freeman, Member of Hingham Net Zero Would you like to hear some great news about climate change? Recent studies including a groundbreaking report by Rewiring America show that we don’t need miracle technologies to address it – we have real solutions now, and if …
Dredging the Harbor is a new column exclusively for the Hingham Anchor by Hinghamite, Matt LeBretton. Matt’s musings will include tongue-in-cheek and irreverent observations around town. Matt lives in Hingham with his wife Michelle, his children Samantha, Abigail and Jake and his best friend Stella the Wonder Dog. Professionally, Matt is a lobbyist and a …
Glenn Mangurian April 1, 2021 by Glenn Mangurian By now you (and the nation) have heard that the Duxbury High School football team used the words “Auschwitz, dreidel and rabbi” as their audible signals in a recent game against Plymouth North High. We don’t know if this was the first time those words were used …
MARCH 29, 2021 – VIETNAM VETERANS DAY By Dave Sargeant There was a weekly magazine, called LIFE, which ended its publication in 1972. Indelibly etched in my memory is the magazine’s front page picture in March 1965 of the Marines landing in Danang on March 8th of that year on a section of the shore …
Glenn Mangurian March 19, 2021 by Glenn Mangurian Hingham would not be Hingham without hundreds of our citizens who volunteer their time as town leaders, committee members and youth coaches to name just a few. Those who have served as selfless citizens over the past 385 years have helped create the town we cherish today. …
