OPINION: A Generation Rallies the Fight Against Climate Change

May 5, 2021, Submitted by Jessica Carr & Andrew Rohleder We urge you to vote YES on the Climate Action Plan warrant article (#14) at Town Meeting Saturday, May 8th at 2:00PM. If you consider the climate-driven catastrophes looming during our probable life spans, you will understand why, especially for those of us in our …

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OPINION: Now Isn’t the Time to Give Up on Hingham Public Schools

Photo courtesy of Tim Miller-Dempsey April 26, 2021, Submitted by Tim Miller-Dempsey, Candidate for Hingham School Committee I am extremely proud to have been a public school teacher for the past 23 years. I live and teach a stone’s throw from the “City on a Hill” where public education first started in America, and believe …

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OPINION: Town Meeting on May 8 – Be Informed. Be Responsible.

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 …

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Duxbury Football: A Failure on So Many Levels

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 …

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