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South Shore town makes decision on new indoor pickleball facility
NORWELL − It’s official: Boston Pickle Club is coming to the South Shore. This month, Norwell’s zoning board approved plans for a new indoor pickleball facility with 10 courts inside a 28,000-square-foot space at a business park at 77 Accord Park Drive, just north of Route 3. The space will also have a lounge,...
Interfaith Social Services elects Donna McGinn and Joe Silva to its board
Interfaith Social Services recently voted in two new members to their Board of Directors. Donna McGinn of Marshfield and Joe Silva of Middleboro were appointed to serve three-year terms. Donna McGinn, who joined Interfaith’s board as an At-Large Member in 2022, is VP of Human Resources at Ryan Specialty, an...
Holtec doesn’t need a permit to evaporate radioactive water from Pilgrim plant
The state says Holtec Decommissioning International, the company that is disassembling the Pilgrim plant site in Manomet, does not need a permit to evaporate radioactive water from the former nuclear power station. That determination – made in a July 18 letter to Holtec from Seth Pickering, deputy regional director of...
Kuehn deserves praise for standing up to developer
Kudos to Plymouth Planning Board member Birgitta Kuehn for standing up to behemoth Makepeace as it plays its dirty tricks to try to add another 113 market-priced homes to the Redbrook housing development. As a Carver resident living in a manufactured home park that abuts one of Makepeace’s many sand...
State: No Pilgrim Wastewater To Enter Cape Cod Bay
Communities around Cape Cod Bay are praising a decision by state regulators last week to block Holtec International from dumping up to 1.1 million gallons of industrial wastewater into the bay from the former Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth. State officials determined that Cape Cod Bay is a protected ocean sanctuary where waste discharge is prohibited.
Major Red Line Braintree Branch Improvement Work to take Place September 6 – 29
The MBTA announced its plans to accelerate major Track Improvement Program work on the Red Line Braintree branch during a 24-day service suspension from September 6 – 29. Between JFK/UMass and Braintree, MBTA crews will make repairs to 18 miles of track, resulting in the removal of over 20 speed restrictions and improving round-trip Braintree branch travel times by as much as 24 minutes. This means there will be no Red Line trains servicing North Quincy, Wollaston, Quincy Center, Quincy Adams, and Braintree, though the MBTA is in the process of finalizing alternate shuttle bus plans that will be announced soon.
Rule-loosening at Brockton Fairgrounds could spark major development at 66-acre site
BROCKTON — The future of the old Fairgrounds is back in the spotlight. Starting Monday, city council will mull big changes to the rules on what can be built there. The sprawling 66-acre area is widely considered the last major undeveloped piece of the city. Before the city's school budget crisis became the talk...
MBTA Announces Twenty-four Day Repair Shutdown Of Braintree Red Line In September
— Quincy Massachusetts News by Quincy Quarry News – News, Opinion and Commentary. On top of recent as well as upcoming weekend closures of the Red Line mostly north of Downtown Crossing, the MBTA has announced a full shutdown of the Braintree branch of the Red Line for twenty-four days in September so as to address over twenty slow zones.
The Plymouth Independent needs your help
The Plymouth community has embraced its fledgling hometown news organization, which published its first stories eight months ago this week. And the appeal of the Independent goes far beyond Plymouth. Since November, over 340,000 people from here and elsewhere have read our news stories, the events calendar, obituaries, letters, and many other features. We’ve published more than 500 stories and columns over the past 35 weeks, the majority of which were written by our lean staff of three journalists.
How Quincy's Pageant Field got its name. (It was quite dramatic)
This summer we take a look back at the playgrounds of yesteryear in our series THE SOUTH SHORE AS IT WAS. QUINCY ‒ Next year, Quincy will celebrate the 400th anniversary of European settlement in the area with a yearlong program of events. If festivities are to live up to the last centennial in 1925, organizers have their work cut out for them. ...
First-of-its-kind summer course teaches Brockton High School students about solar energy
BROCKTON, Mass. — Brockton High School students are in a special clean energy summer program, showing off their solar-powered model homes. "This is for the light, and this is for the fan inside," student Thierry Laguerre explained. "The wiring is in between here," student Keira Louissaint said. "So, the...
Weymouth Mixed-Use Garners Construction Financing
Anton Cela’s Cela Development Inc. has secured $6.34 million in financing from Rockland Trust for the construction of a mixed-use property on Bridge Street in Weymouth, MA. The property spans three floors totaling 31,000 square feet, with the ground level designated for retail space. The second and third floors will contain a mix of 20 one- and two-bedroom apartment units.
Learn about Sharks at the Middleboro Public Library
The Middleboro Public Library will kick off its Shark Week program with a presentation on different types of sharks on Wednesday, July 24 at 2 p.m. Join marine biologist and president of New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance Carol “Krill” Carson, for a family program on the different sharks that can be found in the waters off New England. Learn about basking sharks, white sharks, mako sharks, and many more.
VIP Tires & Service opens new location in Brockton, MA
VIP Tires & Service recently opened a new location in Brockton, MA. The grand opening was attended by city officials from the Brockton Mayor’s office and Brockton public schools, as well as VIP Tires and Service leadership. The company also launched an initiative called “Oil Changes for Education.” Under this program, VIP said customers can receive any Valvoline oil change for $10 (excluding diesel) until July 31. All proceeds from these discounted oil changes will be donated to the Brockton Public Schools.
City of Brockton Public Hearing
Notice is hereby given that the Brockton City Council will meet on Monday, August 26, 2024 at 7:00PM in the Council Chambers, 2nd floor, City Hall, 45 School St., Brockton, MA to review the following petition at which time all interested parties may be heard:. Petition of Massachusetts Electric Company...
Holtec considers appeal to discharge water from Pilgrim plant
STATE REGULATORS last week told the company in charge of decommissioning Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth that it cannot discharge 1.1 million gallons of wastewater from the plant’s spent nuclear-fuel pool into Cape Cod Bay. But Holtec may not consider that the final word, potentially extending an expensive and drawn-out decommissioning, which prompted some testy exchanges at an advisory committee meeting Monday night.
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