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Atlantis Charter/Westport football team looks overcome transfer of star QB
FALL RIVER — Early in the spring, the Atlantis Charter/Westport co-op football had their 2024 season dramatically altered. Sophomore star quarterback Davion Adediran transferred to powerhouse Catholic Memorial, which won consecutive state titles in 2021 and 2022. Adediran led the way for Tritons for the past two seasons. ...
Residential developments still ahead for Milton
Ten major residential development projects have been approved across all areas of Milton and residents can expect to deal with years of construction work. If all are completed, the result will be a greater diversity in the types of housing types and the addition of roughly 570 units of new housing. Those apartments and condominiums will include roughly 166 affordable units.
'It was a hard day today': Somerset Berkley vigil honors student who died from cancer
SOMERSET — Zachary Deane would have approved of the venue. He loved the times he spent on the front soccer fields at Somerset Berkley Regional High School. That is where friends, teammates, schoolmates, family members, teachers, administrators and more gathered at dusk on Wednesday for a candlelight vigil to honor the memory of Deane, the town resident and SBR senior who on Aug. 10 died of the rhabdomyosarcoma, a fast-attacking and lethal form of cancer. ...
It’s a Sailor’s Life for Me
The Nantucket Historical Association and the Egan Maritime Institute invite the public to join them for a series of three live maritime music performances featuring American troubadour Bill Schustik and his talented Nantucket crew. Bring a blanket to sit on, pack a picnic, and set sail into an evening of...
Celtics sign guard Lonnie Walker IV
BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics have filled their final roster spot, reportedly signing guard Lonnie Walker IV on Wednesday night. Brad Stevens continues to cook in the front office for the defending champs, as Walker was arguably the best free agent left on the market. There's no guarantee Walker will make the team, as he's reportedly signed an Exhibit 10 contract -- a non-guaranteed deal that is essentially just a training camp invite.But getting a player like Walker to fill the 15th spot on the roster is an embarrassment of riches for the Celtics. The 25-year-old averaged 9.7 points over 58...
East Boston church no longer able to offer housing to migrants
An East Boston church that recently took in dozens of migrants who have nowhere else to go says they will soon have to leave. An East Boston church that recently took in dozens of migrants who have nowhere else to go says they will soon have to leave. Massachusetts has...
Army Corps Dredge Due In Chatham This Week
CHATHAM – Two months late, the Army Corp is expected to begin dredging the Stage Harbor entrance channel this week. The Corps hopper dredge Murden was due to arrive in town at the end of this week, according to Coastal Resources Director Ted Keon. It will spend approximately 13 days in town, dredging daily with 24 hour shifts. The Murden was originally scheduled to dredge the entrance to the town’s only federal channel in late June, but repairs diverted the vessel to New Jersey. The repairs took longer than expected, and after they were completed the dredge did work in Baltimore and New Jersey before heading north, Keon said. Even though it’s coming at the tail end of the boating season, the dredging is still welcome, he said. “Definitely it’s later in the season than we’d hoped,” he said. But shoaling in the channel is “not as severe as it has been” in years past, so the lack of dredging prior to the season did not cause any major problems. Over the summer, the channel was in “pretty good shape, more or less,” he added. The dredging can be considered “advanced maintenance,” Keon suggested, as it may lessen shoaling over the fall and winter. In recent years prevailing currents have brought sand into the channel from the Morris Island area, sometimes building up large shoals that impede navigation. That pressure from the east has lessened some, he said, but not stopped completely. “It’s definitely not as severe as it has been,” Keon said. There’s no guarantee that will continue, however, should the winter bring easterly winds and storms. “That will still push a lot of sand into the channel.” The channel is on the schedule for the Barnstable County dredge in the winter, and the Army Corps has budgeted to bring the Murden back next spring, Keon said, which will address any shoaling that happens over the fall and winter. Permitting could be an issue, however. The town is closing in on completing renewal of 10-year dredging permits for town waters. While he’s confident state permits will be in place in time for next spring, Keon said he’s not as certain about the timing of the necessary Army Corps permit. While the Corps can dredge under its own authority, work by the county dredge will require a new federal permit. The town received a state grant to cover the county dredging cost. If there are delays, the scheduled Corps dredging could be the only project to clear shoals for next summer’s boating season. “We are never sure if the Corps is going to come back, even though they’ve said they’re scheduled to come back in the spring,” Keon said. “You just never know. But when the Corps says its available to come, you don’t want to say ‘never mind.’” Material dredged from the channel in the coming weeks will be deposited in an offshore area off Harding’s Beach. Because of the restricted channel width, mariners are urged to exercise caution when navigating around the dredge. Navigation buoys may also be temporarily relocated during the dredging.
Flags at half-staff honor fallen Wareham naval officer
It’s not uncommon to see the American flag flown at half-staff as a sign of honor. On Thursday, Aug. 29, flags across Massachusetts were lowered in honor of a Wareham resident, Kyle Thomas Duffy. Duffy, 23, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, Aug. 23. He was a Petty Officer Third...
Big Bad Officials Shut Down Kid’s Ice Cream Stand In Massachusetts
12-year-old Danny Doherty from Norwood, Massachusetts learned that hard lesson that no good deed goes unpunished. He was bored this summer and decided to open a little ice cream stand (a card table with homemade ice cream) to raise money for his brother’s hockey team. But the Boston Globe reports, that after just a few days, he was shut down.
‘Storrowings' are a Boston spectacle — and this year could see the most in a decade
It's "Storrowing" Season in Boston, and we're covering it from all angles. Read more here:. One Boston brewery's too-tall tale of getting 'Storrowed'. So far in 2024, there have been 14 bridge strikes along Storrow Drive and Soldiers Field Road in Boston. The record, 17, was set in 2022. The...
'Never again': Stoughton woman whose cousin was wrongfully imprisoned wants seat at table
STOUGHTON — One local woman is running for a seat on the Governor's Council after a court ruled her cousin was wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years — fueling her campaigning and fight for justice and equality for all. Tamisha Civil is not like your ordinary candidate. If elected, she would be the first Black woman in the state's history to sit on the Governor's Council, she said. ...
Ex-Massachusetts Cop Charged With Killing Pregnant Woman To Conceal Abuse & Exploitation
BOSTON, MA – A former police officer in Massachusetts is facing federal charges for allegedly killing a woman in 2021 to conceal his “longstanding sexual exploitation” of her beginning when she was a minor. Matthew Farwell, 38, a former Stoughton Police officer, was indicted on one count...
VOTE: Who is the SouthCoast high school football Preseason Offensive Player of the Year?
With the return of six of the top 10 scorers from a year ago, there will be plenty of firepower among SouthCoast football teams this fall. Among those to watch are record-setting running backs, veteran quarterbacks, highlight-reel receivers and big-time blockers. ...
How much ice cream can you eat? Surfside Creamery's new challenge might be for you.
NEW BEDFORD — Have you ever eaten a full carton of ice cream in one sitting and thought, "If this was an Olympic sport, I would get the gold." Well, now you can put your skills to the test for Surfside Creamery's first-ever Frozen Face-Off challenge on Aug. 31. On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., the ice cream spot at 26 Brock Ave. will be hosting an event challenging participants to put their ice cream-eating...
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