Watch the full draft on YouTube: The high school football season is just around the corner. As players across the South Shore dust off their pads, we, too, will try to shake off the rust. So begins our third year of the WATD Fantasy Draft! Any fantasy player knows that going in blind to a […]
A fire has led to a temporary closure of the Weymouth Senior Center. Town officials say that Union Towers II, located at 519 Broad St., experienced a 2-alarm fire on Sunday that was contained to a single unit on the fifth floor. However, the fire resulted in the activation of the sprinkler system causing 32 […]
The public is being asked to help locate a missing man. Weymouth Police say 42-year-old Christopher Delaney was last seen on June 5 in Nashua, New Hampshire. His unoccupied car was found in Weymouth on June 7. He’s described as being approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and 185 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde hair […]
Crews were called to the scene of dump truck crash in Weymouth. Massachusetts State Police say that at 9:40 a.m. Thursday the Norwell Barracks responded to reports of a dump truck rolled over onto its side on Route 3 North. The crash caused a large amount of debris to scatter across all lanes of the […]
An investigation is underway after a woman was found dead inside her Weymouth home on Monday. Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey and Weymouth Chief of Police Richard Fuller identified the victim as 56-year old Christine Ruth Mello, of 34 Lake Street. An autopsy at the office of the Chief Medical Examiner was conducted Tuesday morning and […]
Verdicts were rendered on Friday in Norfolk Superior Court in the trial of Emanuel Lopes who was charged in the death of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna and 77-year-old Vera Adams. Lopes was charged with first degree murder for Chesna’s death. He was charged with second-degree murder for the death of Adams. Lopes […]
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection held a Waterways Hearing on Wednesday to discuss a Chapter 91 Waterways permit that was granted to Enbridge for construction of a compressor station in Weymouth which a Superior Court Justice vacated and sent back to the department. DEP Attorney David Bragg told the presiding officer that the site […]
Weymouth Mayor Robert Hedlund spoke with WATD’s Christine James about what he hopes to accomplish in his second term.
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 next to the site last week and WATD’s Charles Mathewson spoke with the […]
The Weymouth Senior Center has been shut down and converted to a temporary Red Cross Shelter after a Tuesday night fire at a housing complex. Fire Chief Keith Stark tells WATD News that the incident caused an estimated $20,000 in damage and cleanup crews were called. No injuries were reported. Stark estimates it […]