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lwinters Photo courtesy of Foster PTO March 8, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Due to a lack of heat, Principal Beth Wilcox notified Foster School families at 7:22 a.m. this morning of the need to transition students in kindergarten and grades 3, 4, and 5 to fully remote instruction today. Cohort A students in grades 1 …
March 6, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Two former Advisory Committee chairs have created an updated financial planning model to help individual property owners determine the impacts of potential future overrides and excluded debt projects (such as a new school or municipal building) on their tax bills. Overrides become a permanent part of the tax …
Photo Courtesy of the Town of Hingham March 6, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer A mental health clinician for the police department, an assistant town administrator for finance, a field maintenance program, and a communications consultant are among the $834,334-worth of Fiscal 2022 non-school budget recommendations presented to the Selectmen recently by Town Administrator Tom …
March 5, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer The time is right to seriously consider reconstruction of the deteriorating town pier near the Iron Horse Statue at the harbor. That was the selectmen’s message to the town following two discussions — including one Thursday night — centering around a Town Meeting warrant article asking voters to …
March 5, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Residents living in the neighborhood abutting the town landfill expressed concerns during Thursday night’s remote Selectmen’s meeting about Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant’s proposal to build a new substation at that location. The intent is to install another transmission line, underground, to provide additional power as needed to help …
March 5, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer A citizen’s petition filed by resident Thomas Patch asks Town Meeting to support requiring that town employees, appointed volunteers, and elected officials who have passed on since the prior year’s regular Town Meeting be identified through a roll call at the next Town Meeting as an expression of …
March 5, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Over the past few years, there has been a “drastic increase” in transfer station recycling costs. To help close this gap, DPW Supt. Randy Sylvester is proposing an increase in the fees currently charged for disposal of large appliances, electronics, furniture, and other items– effective May 1, contingent …
March 3, 2021, Submitted by Kerry Ni, Chair of the Hingham School Committee The Hingham School Committee (Committee) unanimously supports and endorses the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY’22) recovery budget proposed by Superintendent Dr. Paul Austin. This decision reflects the legal and moral obligation of the Committee, a local government body elected by town voters and …
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 …
Feb. 24, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer Implementing a resource dog program at Hingham High School would represent “an enormous step forward for our school community,” according to Principal Rick Swanson. Resource dogs are sometimes referred to as comfort or therapy dogs. The HHS Class of 2020 recently pledged $10,000 toward this effort as a …