Advisory Committee votes unanimously for $70 million light utility project. The committee, meeting March 12, endorsed the Hingham Municipal Light Project borrowing while reviewing the $32 million Center of Active Living proposal, which would increase property taxes on an average home by 2.5 percent
Hingham Select Board unanimously awards $7.9 million pool contract and places senior center debt exclusion on ballot.
Hingham Finance Committee unanimously approves personnel funding and electronic voting pre-authorization ahead of Annual Town Meeting.
Hingham Planning Board continues five residential projects and approves one modification. Chair Tracy Shriver led the board in granting the Site Plan Approval Modification for Breakwater Development at 28 Arnold Road, with utilities, driveway, retaining wall, grading, and landscaping relocations
Lincoln Apartments Board of Managers and Affordable Housing Trust jointly presented plans to sell, lease, or expand the 86 Central Street property. Chair Jack Falvey outlined the complex's urgent capital needs, noting the $1.2 million capital reserve would be exhausted by building envelope repairs
Conservation Commission advances phragmites restoration and Route 3A easements. The board unanimously approved an Order of Conditions for a three-year ecological restoration project at 9 Porters Cove Road covering approximately 18,450 square feet of Salt Marsh and Riverfront Area, with treatment of
Hingham Affordable Housing Trust seeks Town Meeting vote on potential property privatization. The Trust is asking Town Meeting to authorize the Select Board to sell, lease, or convey the Lincoln School Apartments property at 86 Central Street to a private developer, citing urgent capital repairs
Hingham Advisory Committee reviews eight warrant articles for Town Meeting. The committee voted 13-1 to recommend the sale of two town properties: 8 Short Street and the North Fire Station at 230 North Street, with Jerry Seelen dissenting both times. The committee unanimously approved $1,863,538 in
Hingham's Finance Committee approved two town property sales, a $1.86 million Community Preservation package, and a companion zoning change at its March 5 meeting, while deferring a contentious $1.35 million employee health care subsidy to a later session.
Council on Aging Outreach Subcommittee advances four-pronged campaign for new center. The subcommittee reviewed fact sheets posted to the town website, information sessions addressing tax impact and construction costs, online testimonials formatted as black-and-white portraits to be posted daily on
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