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A dozen volunteers armed with hole diggers and hundreds of tiny Virginia rose, beach plum and bayberry plantings have been busy at Duxbury Beach. Their mission: to continue restoring portions of the beach that were wiped away in last winter’s February blizzard and March nor’easter.
 

As I walked out of study hall and proceeded to walk out onto the school courtyard it was as if I was walking in a dream. Young ladies were crying, people were holding each other, everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. The President was dead. How could this be?

When I first heard that the new Pope, Pope Francis, was trained as a Jesuit, I said to myself, “the conservative hierarchy are going to regret their decision.”

Every weekend, we bring you a progress report on the redevelopment of the $1.6 billion Quincy Center redevelopment.

I was a high school sophomore in Weymouth. We began watching President Kennedy's arrival at the airport. You could hear low mutterings of the girls in class commenting on Jackie’s hat and also how handsome the young president was. Like the dropping of the atom bomb, we witnessed the shooting. There was one collective intake of breath and immediate shouts of ‘No, no, no. Oh, my God, no.’ I don’t know if it was me, the teacher, or the whole class that seemed to be responding with one giant, horrific intake of fear and disbelief.

The Vagabond gym in Easton is sponsoring a Thanksgiving food drive to support the Easton Food Pantry.

A Bridgewater State University student was arrested Friday after police said he was swinging what appeared to be a long rifle back and forth “in a menacing way” before entering the school’s library. The gun turned out to be a Nerf toy gun. The student was also found to have been carrying a pocketknife, police said.

William Bulger, former Massachusetts Senate president and brother of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, broke his long silence about the case Friday, telling NewsCenter 5 exclusively that he does not condone his older brother's actions, but has been visiting him weekly in prison.