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OPINION: Can The Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant Support the Transition to Electrification?

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Opinion: What is Happening to Our Environment? A Middle Schooler’s Viewpoint

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Will The Opt-In Specialized Energy Code Add Significant Costs to New Houses In Hingham?

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OPINION: Speaking Truth to Power

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Opinion: Will the Specialized Code Inhibit Economic Development?

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OPINION: Let’s Vote for Flexible Energy Options and Better Buildings

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OPINION: Girls Just Want To Have Fun!

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OPINION: A Different Perspective

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Opinion: A New, New Year’s Resolution

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Opinion: An Exclusive Interview with the Grinch

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Opinion: “To whom much is given, much is expected”

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OPINION: 5 Things I Learned from Writing My Memoir

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OPINION: Celebrating Our “Mosaic Society”

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OPINION: Hingham Playground Surface Safety

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OPINION: To Members of the Hingham Recreation Commission and Hingham Select Board

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OPINION: The Potential for Marine Education Opportunities at 30 Summer Street

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OPINION: To What Do You Belong?

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OPINION: “We hold these truths to be self-evident …”

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OPINION: “These roads are your roads, these roads are their roads”

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Opinion: Hingham Middle School Civics Project

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OPINION: Some challenges are bigger than others – much bigger

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OPINION: “From One Senior Citizen to Many Senior Graduates”

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OPINION : Thank You, Hingham

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OPINION: Town Meeting and the One-Percenters

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OPINION: Support Your Local Brewery – Vote Yes on Article 32

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Opinion: Hingham Girl Scout Troop Collecting School Supplies

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OPINION: Vote NO on Town Meeting Article 25: potential sale of Tree and Park Barn property, 8 Short St.

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Opinion: Hingham – It’s Time to Face our Mental Health Crisis

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Opinion: “There’s no place like home.”

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OPINION: The Hostility of Hostile Architecture

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OPINION: Hingham Educators Strive for a Fair Contract to Benefit Our Community

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OPINION: Reduction of a Librarian at Hingham Middle School

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OPINION: A Letter from the Republican Town Committee

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Opinion: The Anchor Started the WAVE

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Opinion: Hingham Sports Partnership – The Dock

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Celebrating the Anchor for Being “Everything Hingham”

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Opinion: Cathedral

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Opinion: Just The Facts

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Opinion: Hingham School Committee Contract Negotiations

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Opinion: Thursdays With Barbara

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Opinion: Dear Mrs. Claus

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Opinion: American Generosity

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Opinion: The Rudolph Interview

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Opinion: RENEGADE

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Opinion: Celebrating Thanksgiving 2023

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The Vital Role of Local Banking: Our Experience with South Shore Bank!

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Opinion: Don’t Forget About the People

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Opinion: Cliff Notes

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Opinion: A letter to the Hingham Community

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Opinion: Open letter to the Hingham School Committee

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Opinion: Limbo

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Opinion: The Barbie Interview

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OPINION: No Ordinary Joe

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Opinion: See No Truth, Hear No Truth

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OPINION: What Makes Hingham Hingham? – Residents Speak

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OPINION: S(MUG) SHOT

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Opinion: “What makes Hingham Hingham?” I’d like your opinion.

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Opinion: Everyone Has a Story Including You

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Opinion: Confessions of a “Senior Swiftie”

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Opinion: July 27th 1953… The End Of The “Forgotten War”

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Opinion: “There are 135 ‘reflection days’ to Thanksgiving.”

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OPINION: What If Jesus Was A Supreme Court Justice?

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Opinion: The Supreme Court

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Opinion: Katelyn Erickson named the winner of the 2023 Hingham Cemetery Board Scholarship Award

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Opinion: The Perils Of Populism

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Opinion: Glenn Mangurian asks, “What’s All the Fuss about Artificial Intelligence?”

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Thank You To The Class of 2023

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OPINION: Are We Becoming A Theocracy?

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Opinion: The Second Amendment Fraud

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Opinion: “From One Senior Citizen to Many Senior Graduates”

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Opinion: Democracy is alive and thriving in Hingham

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Opinion: Why I’m excited for a budget override, and why you should be too!

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Opinion: Let’s Use the Tools at Our Disposal and Get the Job Done

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Opinion: I was Shocked and Disappointed that a $7,890,467 override passed

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Opinion: Hingham is a historic town – let’s foster the development of Accessory Dwelling Units, a vintage housing solution.

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Opinion: Knock, Knock, Bang!

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Opinion: “Listen to Student Voices”

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Opinion: Former Advisory Committee Chairs who support the proposed override

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Opinion: Concerns about the Proposed Tax Override

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Article 29: Accessory Dwelling Units in Accessory Buildings Maintaining Familial Occupancy

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Opinion: Why the Select Board unanimously supports the override

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Opinion: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Opinion: Why do we need the Hingham Climate Action Commission?

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Opinion: My Choice, My Vote after 14 Years

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Opinion: Actions Speak Louder than Words

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Opinion: Accessory Dwelling Units – Article 29

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Opinion: Come Write Postcards With Me!

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Opinion: Trusted Volunteers

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Opinion: You Should Decide Who Lives in Your ADU

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Opinion: Plymouth River Second Graders Support the Single Use Plastic Water Bottle Ban

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Opinion: Help us help you

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Opinion: Vote Yes to Stop the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles Under a Gallon

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Opinion: Inside the AdCom Report to Town Meeting….. by George Danis, AdCom Chair

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Opinion: What We Fund is What We Value

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Opinion: What Cows Can Teach Us About Daycare

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Opinion: Be a Hingham Steward: Vote “Yes” for the Override! (Ninth in a series)

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Opinion: I want to break free

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Opinion: CRT Explained

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OPINION: Should Hingham Paraeducators Have to Work 2 or 3 Jobs to Make Ends Meet?

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Opinion: The Past Points to “Yes” on Override

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OPINION: Alternative Facts Don’t Exist

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OPINION: A message from our CEO: Confidence in South Shore Bank

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OPINION: Learning About “Tools for Life”

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OPINION: An Open Letter to the Hingham Anchor

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OPINION: Adams Declared, “AMERICANS BEWARE.”

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Editorial – Support All The Teams, Not Just a Few

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Be a Hingham Steward – Your Voice Matters!

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OPINION: Roofie Madness

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OPINION: Be Engaged in the Hingham Override Conversation (Seventh in the Hingham Stewardship Series)

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OPINION: Hingham Deserves Better

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OPINION: I finally broke up with Alcohol. Life has never been better.

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OPINION: Gun Control – Look To Australia

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OPINION: Community at a Crossroads

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OPINION: Time To Talk, Hingham

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OPINION: “Broke”

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OPINION: Be a Hingham Steward: Be Informed About the Operating Budget Override Process (Sixth in the stewardship series)

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OPINION: Unlocking A Prisoner’s Potential

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Opinion: Everyone Deserves a Buddy

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OPINION: Living In Fear

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My 2022 Opinions in Review and a Look to 2023

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