While there have been plenty of positive accomplishments, including the creation of the police athletic league and recent accreditation, the Duxbury Police Department has faced more than its share of controversy over the past ten years:

The drama over former police chief Mark DeLuca’s contract took another bizarre turn on Friday, as the Board of Selectmen voted to rescind a settlement offer after DeLuca apparently refused to sign it.

Football runs in this family. When the Pop Warner junior midgets football team takes the field, three generations are working together, teaching, sharing and playing the game they love.

The search committee tasked with finding Duxbury’s next police chief will have some professional help.

Town Manager Richard MacDonald has selected the West Yarmouth-based firm BadgeQuest to head the search for a new Duxbury police chief. The firm will work with a search committee MacDonald is forming to help guide the search, although the town manager has sole appointing authority at the end of the day.

A former Duxbury Water Department employee was arraigned in Plymouth District Court last week –– more than eight months after he was involved in an alleged drunk driving incident.

Students who play ice hockey at Duxbury High School will soon have to pay an additional athletic user fee, as parent fundraising can no longer cover the cost of ice time, and the cash-strapped school district can’t pick up the difference.

Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin, Chairman of the Massachusetts Historical Commission, announces the selection of the Wright Building to receive a 2009 Massachusetts Historical Commission Historic Preservation Award.

Duxbury residents have long been proud of their senior center. And now the rest of the country knows just how good its services really are.

Where are all the birds?  For almost two months now, we have had almost no birds at our feeders. I mean no birds. Feeders full of seed and no birds eating from them.  For decades we have raised huge crops of insatiable titmice and chickadees, House Finches, goldfinches, Mourning Doves, various woodpeckers, wrens, etc. in our yard. Crows love the place which pleases me since they are without a doubt the best of birds. Now, nothing and I am not the only one. Lots of people have been calling and emailing me convinced that some dire catastrophe has befallen the avian world.

A Duxbury police lieutenant says the town treated her unfairly when she was passed over for the temporary police chief job.

On Friday morning, the Board of Selectmen voted to rescind a settlement offer previously extended to former police chief Mark DeLuca.  Selectmen had signed off on the deal two weeks ago but the document was never accepted by DeLuca. 

Town Manager Richard MacDonald has selected the West Yarmouth-based firm BadgeQuest to head the search for a new Duxbury police chief.

Workers from the DPW along with the Eagle's Nest company worked on the brick path that will eventually lead to a restored World War I monument Thursday afternoon. Once the brick work is done, the plain bricks will be replaced with engraved ones, bearing the names of the project's donors. The project is expected to be completed in the spring. Click on the headline to see more photos.