YOUR WEEK ON THE SOUTH SHORE

Big raises and wild fraud allegations

The Patriot Ledger

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. Thanks for subscribing. And thanks for taking time out from eating hot dogs and planting this weekend to read this newsletter.

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Our most read 👀 story of the week

Two South Shore men have been indicted on charges they participated in fraud involving sober homes in the Boston area, including Quincy and Weymouth. Read the full story here.

Shane McColgan, of Carver.

ICYMI: South Shore boy who started food pantry at age 7 loses battle with cancer

"His legacy of helping others will continue to fill our hearts with love and peace." Read the full story here.

Michael Long

Ex-Scituate official drained accounts of aunt down to $14, court papers say

ONLY FOR SUBSCRIBERS Court documents in the case of former Scituate School Committee member Michael Long say he pretended to help his wife's 77-year-old aunt stop a hacker who had access to her bank accounts while he stole tens of thousands of dollars from her. She even designated him to speak on her behalf with bank representatives. Read the full story here. 

ICYMI: The Patriot Ledger investigates an excessive use of force case in the Weymouth Police Department. We got all the documents and video.

ONLY FOR SUBSCRIBERS. A Weymouth police officer accused of punching a handcuffed man more than a dozen times resigned before he could be fired and might be banned from becoming an officer anywhere in Massachusetts. Read the full story here.

ICYMI: Our Quincy reporter tasted and tested downtown Quincy restaurants to find her favorites 🍰🍸

More than two dozen restaurants − serving everything from pizza to upscale pasta dishes, Mexican flavors, farm-to-table offerings and handcrafted cocktails − can now be found in the square, including a dozen or so that opened in the last 10 years. See Mary Whitfill's six picks here.

Town salary lists

Watch for your town salary list coming to PatriotLedger.com soon. We watch for trends, publish the entire town payroll – and it is ONLY FOR SUBSCRIBERS. In case you missed them, here are Marshfield's, Braintree's, Pembroke's, Rockland's, Hanover's,Scituate's, Cohasset's, Weymouth's, Norwell's and Quincy's. More to come, too. (And Brockton's is interesting, too – 2 Brockton cops made more than $400K.)

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