SIXTH PLYMOUTH DISTRICT - Oct.

Moderator Keeps Two Petitions From a Vote

PLYMOUTH — Oct.

HANSON — Oct.

EAST BRIDGEWATER — Oct.

OKs Get-Out-the-Vote Booth

Drawing down savings to smooth pension obligations?

Allow Single Family Homes on Smaller Lots with Sewer

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PEMBROKE — Oct.

District Tightens Football Rules

HANOVER — Oct.

FY28 Capital Needs Top $10 Million

Library Stairs Limited to Emergencies

WHITMAN — Oct.

Enrollment Rises for First Time in 25 Years

PLYMOUTH — Oct.

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Cell Phone Policy Gets Final Read

Waste Depot Pact on Hold

MARSHFIELD — Oct.

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DUXBURY — Oct.

HALIFAX — Oct.

Fire Chief Measure Withdrawn

PLYMOUTH — Oct.

MARSHFIELD — Oct.

County Pension Costs Are Eating the South Shore's Budgets

WEYMOUTH — Oct.

Four CPA Applications Heard

Nature For All Fund

KINGSTON — September 30, 2026 — Kingston’s Board of Selectmen, Finance Committee and School Committee opened fiscal 2028 budget talks Wednesday facing a gap Town Administrator Scott Lambiase put at $1.2 million to $1.5 million just to keep services at current levels, driven largely by health insurance and a Plymouth County retirement assessment rising about $750,000 a year.

EAST BRIDGEWATER — Oct.

PLYMOUTH — September 30, 2026 — Plymouth County commissioners on Wednesday voted to hire Pembroke law firm Clifford & Kenny to investigate a hostile work environment complaint from a former county employee, after an initial motion to hire the firm died without a second.

NORWELL — September 30, 2026 — Norwell police have deactivated and covered the town’s two Flock license plate reader cameras six months after they were installed, the deputy police chief told the Select Board on Wednesday, saying the department’s relationship with residents mattered more than the tool.

ABINGTON — September 29, 2026 — The Abington School Committee was told September 29 that the district has had no policy addressing the state’s teen dating violence law, and model language to close that gap went to a voice vote.

HANSON — Oct.

HINGHAM — September 29, 2026 — Hingham’s transfer station would charge $75 to dispose of a mattress, up from $20, and $500 a ton for construction debris, up from $120, under a new fee schedule the Select Board put to a roll-call vote Tuesday.

PLYMOUTH — September 29, 2026 — The Plymouth Select Board voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a memorandum of agreement and a letter of support for a 392-unit friendly 40B at 120 Carver Road, a project town staff said would lift Plymouth’s subsidized housing inventory to 10.5% and past the threshold for permanent safe harbor under the 2020 census count.

COHASSET — September 29, 2026 — Sewer Commission officers and a longtime harbor researcher told the Cohasset Select Board on Tuesday that the shellfish management plan the town signed with Scituate leaves Cohasset exposed, rejecting a town counsel statement, read aloud at the board’s harbor forum, that neither the plan nor the intermunicipal agreement behind it puts the town at risk of liability.

PLYMPTON — September 29, 2026 — Plympton’s free cash has been certified, but Town Accountant Lisa Hart told the Board of Selectmen on Tuesday that the first $9,200 invoice for the town’s new VADAR accounting system was not budgeted, and that an overspent water infrastructure grant account and an old police detail account will have to be written off, with no funding source yet identified.

WHITMAN — September 29, 2026 — The Whitman Select Board on Tuesday voted on a full hiring freeze through Jan.

Duxbury Hazard Plan Open for Comment

SCITUATE — September 28, 2026 — Scituate’s schools are on track for an increase of just about $400,000 in fiscal 2028, less than 1%, after recent years of close to $2 million, the School Committee heard Monday.

HINGHAM — September 28, 2026 — Weekend storm leaks at South School and Hingham High School required cleanup by facilities crews, the superintendent told the School Committee Monday, weeks before voters take up roof projects at both buildings and Plymouth River.

HANSON — September 29, 2026 — The Hanson Finance Committee declined to recommend several articles on the Oct.

EAST BRIDGEWATER — September 28, 2026 — Town counsel told the Select Board on Monday that the attorney general is likely to hold, as it has before, that town meeting cannot use a bylaw to direct town officials, a problem for the petitioned surveillance technology bylaw that leads the Oct.

Bus Drivers’ Union Opposes Driver-Facing AI Camera

Revenue Split Would Cut Town Budgets 3.7%

Long-Term Brockton Line Estimated at $8 Million