Kingston News

A woman was arrested in Kingston Thursday after she attempted to cash a stolen check at a Bank of America.

Mark Robinson, a Forster Lane resident and president of New Day Energy, offered to purchase, permit and install a wind turbine on town-owned land, possibly Kingston Elementary School.

Where the salt water of Buttermilk Bay meets the cold water springs that feed Red Brook, sea-run trout find the right conditions to lay their eggs, burying them under the stream-bed's gravel to hide them from predators.

BOSTON - Moving to help municipal fire departments impacted by budget cuts that have forced layoffs and vacancies resulting from attrition, Gov. Deval Patrick announced Kingston will receive $10,104 to rehire eight call firefighters laid off earlier this year.

The case against Darren Caswell, 44, who retired on Jan. 28 from the Department of Correction after 20 years, is the culmination of a six-year probe into the death of Matthew S. Cote, 26, whose charred remains were found in his pick-up truck on Aug.

Share + Oct 7, 2009 7:02 pm US/Eastern KINGSTON, Mass. Learning one person in your family has cancer is devastating, but imagine the shock when four out of fiveA sisters are forced to battle breast cancer.

Middleboro man plead guilty this morning on charges he murdered a Kingston man and then charred his remains in 2003.

OSHA has cited Lawrence-Lynch Corp. of Falmouth, Mass., for alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards following an excavation collapse at a worksite in Kingston, Mass.

It's taken three years to get to the point that Green Energy Committee members can say they're just a couple of steps away from actual construction of a wind turbine at the transfer station on Cranberry Road.

Former Kingston police chief Alan R. Ballinger, convicted 15 years ago of raping two young girls and molesting a third, won't get a new trial.

If you have an old computer that doesn't work or one of those classic non-digital TVs you can't use any more, or even old clothes that haven't fit since 2000, it's time to clean out the closets and bring all that stuff that's broken or doesn't fit - along with some of those extra cans of peanut butter you bought on sale - to the Independence Mall, ...

The MBTA has ordered Old Colony commuter rail engineers to slow down trains along the Boston-Kingston line where thousands of track ties were found to be damaged.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will receive $2.5 million in federal stimulus money to add renewable energy generators to their properties, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday.

The MBTA plans to use its $2.5 million in stimulus funds to design and construct wind turbines at its facilities in Kingston, Newburyport and Bridgewater.

MBTA - Kingston, MA Wind Project The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is working to install a 100kW wind turbine at the Kingston Commuter Rail Layover Facility in Kingston, MA. Because of recent fare increases, and a tightening of tax revenues, increasingly the MBTA is relying on non-operating revenue as a steady source of income. In the past two fiscal years, utility costs for operations have been highlighted as an increasing expense burden to the MBTA. A program of revenue enhancement and operating expense reduction through reliance on Wind Turbine generating facilities on MBTA property will serve as an important component in future stabilized operating budgets for the MBTA. Contact Information: Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (508) 870-0312

NSTAR said it is seeking approval to lower the winter supply rate to its gas customers by 38 percent.

A beloved mascot has been stolen from a roadside barbeque business in Kingston. "Perfect" the pig, a life-size pig replica, was stolen from a shed behind True Blue BBQ at 191 Summer St.

A set of specific goals has never been on the agenda for the Board of Selectmen and the town administrator, but that was exactly was Jill Myers asked for when she signed her town administrator's contract in April.

Replacing faulty train ties

The news is not all good on the commuter rails. The Old Colony Lines have had some speed restrictions in recent days while track engineers inspected and reinforced faulty train ties.

Firefighters evacuated the Kingsbury Club Saturday morning after a lifeguard reported a chlorine leak at the club's pool, fire officials said.

A Kingston sports club was evacuated this morning after 350 gallons of chlorine spilled from a tank supplying the club's outdoor pool.