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Pups, parks and Plymouth restaurant closing
This is Jen Wagner, executive editor at The Patriot Ledger. Welcome to this week's edition of Your Week on the South Shore. Only for subscribers. As always, be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of this newsletter for more stories. Some of our most read stories this week Imagine being $400 million...
Ribbon cutting inaugurates new food pantry location
Volunteers, staff donors and supporters of Damien’s Food Pantry joined together on Tuesday, April 23 to cut the ribbon on a new $2.3 million dollar location. “What’s amazing is that all of this took just 22 months,” said Rhonda Veugen, the development lead for the capital campaign which funded the building.
A Mashpee Wampanoag youth group works to protect a beloved fish
Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Peters is worried about local herring. "I went to get some herring, I got like around like 15 of them and I was gutting them and then I realized halfway through that most of them, their roe, their eggs were just mis-colored and polluted." The roe was a...
Massachusetts high schooler knocking it out of the park on diamond, in classroom
HANOVER, Mass. — Noey Giardina exemplifies what it means to be an outstanding student-athlete. The junior at Hanover High School in Massachusetts has a 3.7 grade-point average in the classroom and plays three different varsity sports, but she is no stranger to adversity. "She's a perfectionist and she's a...
Thursday: DOT to give update on status of Cape Cod bridges project
The state plans to provide an update on the rebuilding of the Bourne and Sagamore bridges at an online meeting this Thursday. In the first public information session in a year, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation says it will discuss the status of the Cape Cod bridges project, the funding, the start of the environmental review process, and what’s coming up next.
Will Bridgewater-Raynham be able to avoid layoffs? Here's what superintendent says
RAYNHAM — Bridgewater-Raynham officials are telling staff, faculty and parents to expect budget shortfalls in the upcoming school year, partially due to state aid not keeping up with inflation. “As it stands as of today, there will be positions left unfilled, and there may be reductions. We are continuing...
High demand is pushing hospitals past their limits, say Southeastern Mass. hospital CEOs
BOSTON — A financial crisis at Steward Health Care has rendered the for-profit system as one of the biggest boogeymen in state government circles, but a pair of leaders at Steward hospitals told lawmakers Wednesday that they face many of the same challenges as their peers in nonprofit settings. Sharp increases in patient demand pushing hospital capacity to its limits emerged as a common theme affecting providers as senators placed a magnifying glass on the state...
Car crash with tractor on Rt. 100 seriously injures Duxbury man
A crash on Vermont Route 100 in Duxbury last week between a car and a tractor sent a local man to the hospital and resulted in multiple charges including drunk driving and assault for the driver of the car involved, according to Vermont State Police. The incident happened on Wednesday,...
Yarmouth Board To Consider Regional Emergency Center
The Yarmouth Select Board is slated to vote today on the proposal for a new regional 911 call center. The partnership with Barnstable and Sandwich would serve a good chunk of the Cape and save millions for each of the three towns. If Yarmouth leaders greenlight the idea, planning the...
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