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. …
March 1, 2021 submitted by Matt LeBretton This week, the city of Boston will have almost 15,000 students receiving in-class education full time. Just over half of them are K-3rd graders who will reenter their classrooms for a full day for the first time in a year. The rest of the students who enjoy public …
Photo courtesy of the Hingham Historical Commission February 19, 2021, submitted by the Hingham Historical Commission The historic Skate House at 403 East Street on the pond near the Cohasset border is about to be demolished. Pursuing its mandate under a Town bylaw designed to save Hingham’s historic buildings from demolition “whenever possible,” the Hingham …
Feb. 13, 2021 by Maya Hobson Did anyone have a feeling that Christmas and other holidays would be different this year? Well, I did. Hingham has had various celebrations that might have been different from the past. As far as Covid goes, we weren’t able to have our big Christmas parties and the amount of …
