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More than 230 students received associates degrees or certificates Saturday during Quincy College's annual winter commencement held at the Quincy Marriott.

The Boston archdiocese has announced the pastors who will lead six new Catholic church collaboratives on the South Shore.

A community group dedicated to promoting health living, specifically through its anti-drug programming, is moving to new office space in Quincy.

The first big business story of 2014 was that Fiat finished buying Chrysler, paying $4.35 billion for whatever remaining stock it didn’t already own. The takeover had begun in 2009, when Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne flew into Detroit like a Marvel superhero and rescued Chrysler from its latest inept owner, a New York hedge fund called Cerberus Capital. Two years later, Chrysler was able to pay off its government loans.

Weekly auto rail, with plowing tips, a look at the most popular car color and more.

Q: Greg, in response to your recent articles on Nash, Hudson and AMC - we owned two AMC cars, a 1965 Rambler Classic and a 1984 AMC Eagle 4x4. We go to car shows, and once in a while see a ’65 Classic but never an AMC Eagle. We also see the 1953 Nash, which I call the upside down bathtub.  Also, we once owned a Cadillac Cimarron, where GM took a Chevy Cavalier and dressed it up and slapped a Cadillac label on it. However, it was one of the best cars I ever owned! It would turn heads because it was so small for a Cadillac. Thanks for the columns, Lee Neiley, Beacon, N.Y.

Authorities say two young children unresponsive when they were found trapped inside a chest in a Franklin home have died.

A performance by world-renowned cellist Luis Leguia of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is set for Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 2 PM in the Keys Community Room (lower level) of the Milton Public Library at 476 Canton Avenue in Milton, MA.  The concert, which will be about one hour, will feature pieces by Faure, Kodaly, Bach and the cellist himself.  There will be piano accompaniment by Carmen Rodriguez-Peralta on some selections.

Find out more this outstanding free performance, and Mr. Leguia's fascinating background.

Barbara Levy and Elizabeth Thomas

The Patriot Ledger covered the sold-out Downtown Abbey Tea in a feature and a photo gallery.  Enjoy them here:

Patriot Ledger article

Photo gallery of the Milton Llibrary’s Downtown Abbey Tea

Scituate Etrusco Associates, a nonprofit named to commemorate a 1956 shipwreck, has been loaningmedical supplies for five-plus decades.