Hull News

RECENT DATA showing declines in the unemployment rate and first-time unemployment insurance requests is hopeful news, if a long time coming.

JOHN SLADEWSKI/The Standard-Times Crews work at the site of the two wind turbines that will be built in the woods off the Fairhaven bike path.

Proposed changes to commuter boat and other MBTA services were the prevailing topic at Tuesday's meeting of the board of selectmen.

On Wednesday evening the MBTA held the first of three local public hearings about the service and fare changes that have been proposed as a way of decreasing the transit authority's budget deficit.

One by one, residents, business owners, and town officials from Hingham and all over the South Shore stood up in front of the Sanborn Auditorium in the A Hingham Town Hall to speak out against the MBTA's proposed service cuts and fare hikes.

A Braintree police officer spotted a 25-year-old Hull man run through a red light on Quincy Avenue at Hayward Street last Sunday morning and arrested him on charges of operating under the influence.

The Cohasset Water Department is making waves again - this time for questions about potential conflict of interest involving the chairman of the water commission and over concerns about plans to give a 20-year contract to a company to run the town-owned utility.

They say the ferry ride across Boston Harbor into the city is relaxing. It wasn't this morning for the general manager of the MBTA.

A Hull man with a long criminal history is facing a multitude of new charges after being arrested Tuesday with two companions after an alleged break-in at a Hingham residence.

From a 20 percent rate increase in 2009 to a proposed 18.72 percent increase today, with breaking water pipes and failing infrastructure addressed by only short-term fixes, Hingham officials have had enough with Aquarion Water Co.

Aquarion Water Company may be headed toward an unwelcome downsizing in Massachusetts.