Hingham

World's End

adamg — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:46:51 +0000

Liz West took this photo of World's End in Hingham last fall.

World's End was once an island, but is now a gorgeous property maintained by the Trustees of Reservations. Landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, it consists of approximately 250 acres of paths, meadows, woodlands, and seascapes.

Visit World's End:

The retreating glacier helped create the geology of Boston Harbor, including the islands and the four spoon-shaped hills (called drumlins) that comprise World's End. This landscape also features saltwater marshes, meadows, woodlands, and granite ledges covered with red cedars and blueberry thickets.

Photo posted under this Creative Commons license.

The sweetest blog of the day

adamg — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:29:47 +0000

Gabbie's Goodies is the chronicle of a start-up bon-bon shop in Hingham.

@USRep_Keating is now online

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:25:14 +0000

Follow USRep_Keating Bill Keating on twitter here.

Home for the holidays

adamg — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:05:16 +0000

Scott Eisen was at the Hingham Armory today when the 1058th Transportation Company of the National Guard returned home from Iraq.

Copyright Scott Eisen.

YouTube's latest star

Stewart — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:13:23 +0000

Gawker just posted a link to a truly appalling YouTube video supposedly secretly filmed by a postal carrier in Hingham as he's being verbally abused (and at one point, physically assaulted) by a middle-aged woman who honestly seems flat-out unhinged. Which of the local commentators will be the first to knock out a couple easy columns over it?

http://gawker.com/5688054/postal-worker-secretly-films-customers-racist-rant

Demolition derby, Hingham style

adamg — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:42:02 +0000

Jeff Cutler happened upon this accident at Crow Point Lane and Rte. 3A in Hingham around 7 a.m. today. He reports the van driver had to be cut out of the vehicle, but that the other drivers seemed OK.

Photo copyright Jeff Cutler.

Milton and Hingham getting Patched

adamg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:12:13 +0000

Yes, yes, at some point I should stop linking to Patch's ads for editors and reporters to "radically reinvent community journalism," but for now I'm still fascinated by its move into GateHouse/Your Town territory, so here are the ads for AOL's efforts to cover Milton and Hingham.

Woe

adamg — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:54:55 +0000

David Parsons spent some time recently at Hingham Cemetery.

Copyright David Parsons. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

MBTA hears commuters who hate stuffing dollar bills into slots

adamg — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:31:12 +0000

The MBTA has begun experimenting with a system that lets commuter-rail and ferry riders pay for parking by cell phone instead by rolling up all those dollar bills to stuff into those tiny slots at parking lots.

The new system, at parking lots along the Kingston line and at the Quincy and Hingham commuter-boat terminals, lets riders set up accounts and then dial a toll-free number to have the day's parking fee charged to their credit cards:

Upon creating a free pay by phone account, customers call the toll free number from their mobile phone, key in the location and parking numbers, and the parking fee is charged to their credit/debit card.

Hingham officer suspended after allegedly pointing his gun at his kid

adamg — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:49:41 +0000

DSS is investigating.

T police find new way to keep themselves busy

adamg — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:20:39 +0000

Barnz reports MBTA police conducted a sweep through the Hingham ferry parking lot yesterday - and had a tow company tow every single car with expired inspection stickers and registrations:

... As I do everyday on my way home I got off the commuter boat at Hingham today, walked to the parking lot, up the aisle I thought I'd left my car in... and then down another aisle... then up the previous for good measure... after 30min of this and some concern for my mental wellbeing I walked to the MBTA office and asked a question I never thought I'd have to ask. "Hello... have... uhm... any cars been towed or anything from the lot today?" ...

Police arrest second out-of-towner in Brighton assault case

adamg — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:17:24 +0000

Ronald Twombly, 23, of Hingham, arrested today in connection with that beating of four BU students on Dec. 3. Sean Melanson, also 23 and also a Hingham resident, had been arrested earlier this month. Twombly faces the more serious charges, including assault with intent to murder with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

The jailed nanny

adamg — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:40:34 +0000

The Herald reports on the high-powered Hingham couple and their Belgian nanny, locked up for 30 days now.

Jay Fitzgerald: One would think federal officials have better things to do than to jail a nanny:

What next? A nationwide au pair round-up? ... [O]ur immigration policy certainly appears to be in a shambles, with the administration winking at illegal immigrants streaming across the border to the south while cracking down illogically in other areas. ...

Carpundit: We have immigration rules:

Follow the damn things and you can get here, especially if you're a professional. But if you break them, you're just another criminal.

Mats at Internet128 notes it's not like the government just swooped in without warning and arrested her:

... Considering that a judge ordered the nanny to leave the country in June last year, it would be pretty hypocritical for (the government) not to execute the deportation. ...