Scituate News

In Falmouth, a wind turbine had been ordered shut down by the state because tests showed it exceeded noise standards.

He risked his life for strangers in Iraq and Afghanistan and saw his own life saved by the sacrifice of his brother soldiers.

Lillian Agnes Kennedy, of Quincy, passed away peacefully on May 20, 2012, she was 76.

Photo by Don Cuddy Commercial fisherman Frank Mirarchi of Scituate and Emilie Litsinger, groundfish project manager for the Environmental Defense Fund.

"This is the longest-running and widest act of Catholic civil disobedience in the history of Catholic America," said Peter Borre, one of the vigil leaders.

One Massachusetts restaurant was too close for comfort for Nashville's Backyard Burgers, according to The Patriot Ledger.

This wind turbine in Scituate received its crowning piece in February 2012 as the hub and blades were lifted up and attached to the nacelle.

Freetown-Lakeville School Superintendent John McCarthy has accepted the top job in Scituate's school system, a move that will leave his former district searching for its fourth superintendent in less than 10 years.

The Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District Committee will look for an interim superintendent of schools to replace John McCarthy, who was named the superintendent in Scituate last week.

Freetown-Lakeville Superintendent of Schools John McCarthy, 56, has been offered the same position in Scituate and intends to take it.

The Vatican has rejected an appeal by parishioners who've occupied a Scituate church in protest since the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston closed it eight years ago.

Read more: Local , National , Health , Education , Bake Sale , Massachusetts , Ban , Obesity , Childhood Obesity , Candy , Candy Sales , Fundraisers , Parent Teacher Organizasion , Pto Raising money for PTA groups, high school bands and class trips by holding a bake sale will soon be illegal in one state...and parents say the plan is "half-baked".

King Philip High School Principal Robert Wargo will resign to take another job, it was announced at the KP School Committee meeting Monday night.

Just as a new report is released saying schools should be Ground Zero for the nation's obesity battle, we learn that schools in Massachusetts are banning bake sales in the interest of fighting obesity.

RIVERS, Marty, 48, Three Rivers, Mich.; pleaded not guilty to assault and battery and malicious destruction of property valued at less than $250, May 2 in Harwich.

1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids.