The ranks of the highly paid are usually dominated by employees in the local school system and police department, according to records from Brockton, Duxbury, Hingham, Stoughton, and Weymouth.
Hingham
The shuttered New England Friends Home in Hingham will get a new life as a home for the dying, run by a visiting nurse and a hospice association based in Norwell.
Brockton, Easton
Four Democrats are vying to replace state Representative Geraldine Creedon, who is retiring this year after 18 years on Beacon Hill.
Photos by Debee Tlumacki for The Boston Globe
South Shore Quests publishes an annual booklet of clues that is available at various nature centers and libraries for $5.
A 12-foot-tall brick cross erected 53 years ago on a traffic island and bearing the exhortation “Worship” has become the focus of a constitutional debate.
dining out
Cupcakes are the specialty of the house at Baked, which Jennifer Warshaw describes as a traditional bakery with a modern twist.
Azure Media of Miami Gardens, Fla., recently purchased the station from a Connecticut-based firm for $250,000.
The junior is 13-3 with an earned run average below 1.80 this season.
Navy Petty Officer Jason Main established Friends Never Forget, a nonprofit that raises money to send children of military personnel who died while on active duty to summer camp.
The Archdiocese of Boston is proposing to group its 288 parishes into 127 collaboratives that would share priests and other staff.
It’s been 5 weeks since a 2-year-old vanished on a Rockport beach, apparently swept away with the tide. Grief, anger, and a thread of hope have defined her family’s life since.
A North Dighton woman’s generosity helps not just Children’s Hospital in Boston, but teaches a life lesson, too, writes Beverly Beckham.
