by Charles Mathewson | Mar 15, 2024 | News
The Marshfield Select Board has decided not to renew the contract of Fire Chief Jeff Simpson. WATD’s Charles Mathewson reports.
by Charles Mathewson | Mar 7, 2024 | News
Duxbury Town Meeting will have an unusual predicament on Saturday. Town government will either run a deficit or close the beach. A non-profit organization, the Duxbury Beach Reservation, owns the peninsular that largely identifies the town and protects it as a barrier...
by Charles Mathewson | Nov 20, 2023 | News
Plymouth’s annual Thanksgiving Parade reached beyond Plymouth, beyond the region, beyond Boston as all 24 Hearst TV stations nationwide broadcast it. WATD’s Charles Mathewson wandered the parade route.
by Charles Mathewson | Nov 17, 2023 | News
When a family hears the word cancer in the diagnosis of a child’s ills, the emotional crisis hits first. Then comes the medical complexities. We live in a time and place with great medical outcomes. Insurance pays, but the miscellaneous financials accumulate. Cops for...
by Charles Mathewson | Nov 17, 2023 | News
The natural gas pipeline company Enbridge has built a compressor station, a pipeline booster, next to the Fore River Bridge in Weymouth. A citizens group, FRRACS, opposed the station when it was proposed and opposes its continual operation. FRRACS organized a rally...
by Charles Mathewson | Nov 9, 2023 | News
Last week a bear killed goats behind an electric fence inside a barn in Hanson. The decision to kill it when it’s found has created controversy throughout our region. Keepers of livestock want their animals protected. They’ve received death threats from lovers of...
by Charles Mathewson | Oct 24, 2023 | News
You’ve probably heard of the Hanover fireworks site cleanup. It’s gone on for years. So, what’s to clean up? For decades the Department of Defense and MIT used the place for munitions research. It’s strewn with unexploded ordinance and toxic chemicals, including...
by Charles Mathewson | Oct 17, 2023 | News
Today, many delivery trucks are electric-powered. In the near future, when you buy something for delivery, it may arrive at the local airport in an electric-powered airplane. The Marshfield Airport is ready to accept delivery and others will be soon. WATD’s Charles...
by Charles Mathewson | Sep 29, 2023 | News
Reasoned discussion evaporated at the monthly meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Council, or NDCAP. The public comment period, in one council member’s words, devolved into shouting about the process. The subject, before devolution, was...
by Charles Mathewson | Sep 28, 2023 | News
When Hull sited its wastewater treatment plant in 1978, it chose a location between the uplands of Pemberton and Allerton. It’s a gravity-feed system. Today, it shares the low spot, within view of the harbor and the Atlantic, with a salt marsh. It floods. The town has...
