An 18-year-old man was transported to South Shore Hospital Monday morning after his motorcycle flipped over on Mayflower Street.

The Duxbury Rug Hookers have taken a 200-year-old craft and are bringing it back into the limelight as they prepare to have their works on display at Plymouth Area Community Television this month.

Duxbury Bay Maritime School has dedicated a new shell in honor of two Duxbury Olympian rowers.

The venerable Winsor House Inn on Washington Street has been sold.

When former Duxbury Idol Molly Jewell was asked to be one of the judges for this year’s Duxbury Idol competition, she was elated. The more she thought about her participation in the competition, she realized she wanted to do something to draw more attention to the competition and decided to hold a concert of her own.

Old police station officially decommissioned

The Duxbury Police Department held a decommission ceremony at the West Street police station on Saturday morning, April 13, honoring retired and deceased officers and praising current and future members of the department.

We need your child's assistance to launch Rock Paper Scissor's "You Are Brave" campaign in response to the Boston Marathon tragedy. While we understand there may be children who are not aware of the tragedy, there will be many who know what happened, or who will learn about the events in the coming days.

In responde to the Boston Marathon Bombings Monday afternoon, a vigil for peace will be held Tuesday night, April 16, from 7 to 8 p.m. on the front lawn of the First Parish Church on Route 3A. In case of bad weather, the vigil will be held inside the church. 

Boston Marathon attack investigation continues

The investigation continues into the two explosions that killed three people and injured at least 170 at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon. The most recent reports confirm that one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed early Friday morning in an exchange of gunfire with police after the two suspects attempted to rob a 7/11 and hi-jacked a car. The second suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, is still at large. The entire city of Boston has been closed, and the towns of Waltham, Brighton, Allston, Cambridge and Watertown are on lock-down. All public transportation has been shut down for the day. 

Duxbury’s transition to its new town manager, René Read, took a large step forward this week with the final approval of his contract. On Monday, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to execute and sign a sevenpage contract to employ Read as the next town manager. He signed the contract at the selectmen’s meeting and will begin May 13.

More than five years after litigation began, the Johnson Golf vs. the Town of Duxbury lawsuit has now completed it's eleventh day at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn and is now expected to last until at least Monday, April 22. The trial was supposed to be in session on Friday, April 17, but in light of the recent incidents involving the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, Middlesex Superior Court was closed on Friday. The lawsuit against the town alleges the Town of Duxbury violated the law in the bidding process and award of a new management contract for the North Hill public golf course in December 2008 and January 2009.

The trial began last Wednesday, April 3, at 9 a.m. with jury selection. Attorney Stephen Follansbee represents Johnson Golf management and Attorney Leonard Kesten and Duxbury’s current Town Counsel Arthur Kreiger repre­sent the town of Duxbury.

State representatives and experts on environmental issues joined together last Thursday to inform residents of the proposed updates to the state’s bottle bill. Phil Sego, of the Mass. Sierra Club, Representative Jon Hecht of Watertown, Representative Josh Cutler, Sean Sylver of the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection and Claire Sullivan of the South Shore Recycling Cooperative, presented on the bottle bill at the Senior Center, highlighting the importance of citizen support. 

Some Duxbury residents living along the beach near Marshfield were unable to access their homes for several days after the February blizzard and the March nor’easter because of severe flooding in their neighborhood.

An appeal of the pending liquor license for the Hall’s Corner store has been filed with the state Alcoholic Bev- erages Control Commission.