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A developer said a planned apartment complex approved by Weymouth won't impact the neighborhood or town's character while meeting a housing need.

Police Chief Richard Fuller said “it was only fitting” to rename Seawatch. “Paul was the kind of guy who would drop everything he was doing to help someone,” he said. “He always had a smile on his face and a kind word. This world needs more people like Paul Milone. When Paul passed away in December, we knew right away that we wanted to rename the boat after Paul.” Fuller said Milone spent "months and months" designing the boat renamed after him and manufactured last year by Safe Boats International, a Bremerton, Washington State-based firm. Safe Boats officials stated they worked ...

Approximately 550 volunteers participated in a townwide cleanup of approximately 56 landmarks on April 24.

WEYMOUTH – The town council has approved taking down an old trash incinerator plant using nearly $1 million of the money from the energy company that owns the natural gas compressor station on the banks of the Fore River. Mayor Robert Hedlund requested $940,000 to remove the 19,700-square-foot incinerator on Wharf Street. The town council approved the request this week. Hedlund said the request for proposals for the work will go out in the next two weeks, with a contractor in place by June. The work should take four months or so, with all demolition and new landscaping done by Octobe...

Wicked Local WEYMOUTH-– U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch is requesting an "immediate shutdown" of the Fore River Basin's compressor station following an unplanned gas release on April 6. Lynch stated the unplanned gas release was the third "blowout" at the facility since Enbridge Inc. began utilizing it in September 2020. “Every accident at the Weymouth Compressor Station endangers the lives and health of local residents and surrounding communities, and these so-called blowouts have become a dangerous pattern of releasing harmful gas into the nearby residential neighborhood,” he sta...