Rockland News

Loved ones arrived Sunday at Taunton High School with American flags intending to honor the service of the 165 citizen-soldiers of the 772nd Military Police Company who served a year in Iraq training that country's police forces.

Mayor Patricia Murphy is expected to recommend Monday night that the Town Council endorse Rodney Weinberg , a fiscally conservative Democrat, to fill the vacant seat on the school board.

Life sciences firm Osmetech has closed its lab in Rockland and relocated operations to its headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., the Patriot Ledger reports.

Who will run Duxbury's municipal golf course next year? The answer may have to come from a judge.

Every school, every program, every position in the district will be scrutinized over the next two weeks as the Board of Education reviews a proposed 2010-11 budget of $58.76 million -- a 3.2 percent increase.

Dr. Lisa Diamond , a psychiatrist who heads the hospital's Behavioral Health Department , surprised colleagues with a resignation letter to Town Clerk George Buckbee on Tuesday.

In this Dec. 22, 2009 file photo, Sean Desio, of Rockland, Mass., front, and his friend Nick Putman, of Whitman, Mass., do some late-night Christmas shopping at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Mass.

Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, announced new agreements for endotracheal tubes have been awarded to Nellcor Puritan of Mansfield, Mass.; Smiths Medical of Rockland, Mass.; and Teleflex of Research Triangle Park, N.C. Effective January 1, 2010, the agreements are available to acute care and continuum of care members of the Premier healthcare ...

Premier Purchasing Partners has awarded a supply contract to Smiths Medical of Rockland, Mass.

The planet Uranus -- or at least a tennis-ball sized, bronze replica -- will soon be back on its pedestal at Sarah Noble Intermediate School in New Milford.

Photo courtesy Loring S. Weeks Mayor Scott W. Lang speaks at the grand opening of the Celtic Coffee House at 42 N. Water St.

A Hanover man died from stab wounds soon after Massachusetts rang in the new year, after an altercation with another man in Rockland, police said.

And how's this for a holiday twist? The track's owners are reaching out to Bay State animal shelters - their former opponents in the heated dog-racing debate - to help the pooches find new digs.

The state has approved plans by South Shore Hospital to add two stories and 60 beds in a $52 million project that comes on the heels of construction of its $89 million cancer treatment center and new parking garage.

Shoppers across the country returned to malls Saturday, rummaging through thinly stocked shelves hunting for deals, next year's Christmas gifts and, for most, gifts for themselves.

In Massachusetts, the last Saturday before Christmas - known as "Super Saturday" among retailers - got new meaning as shoppers raced to finish their holiday shopping before the storm.

Negotiations for a three-year police contract have proved so contentious the matter is now in the arbitration process.

ROCKLAND, Mass., Dec. 17, 2009 a ' The NIKRFK focus drive with integral electronic clutch is now available from Prior Scientific Inc.

Tedeschi Food Shops Inc. has opened its 189th location, in the town of Everett, Mass.

A Massachusetts man was arrested on a charge of aggravated felonious sexual assault on Tuesday, Dec.