The recreation department is requesting Community Preservation Act funding to create more fields on land adjacent to the Chandler Elementary School. Recreation director Gordon Cushing explained his proposal to the Community Preservation Committee last week.

Friday With Heide. Virtual Trip to the Blackstone River Valley. Join Heide on Friday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. for the popular virtual tour of a different area of Massachusetts. This tour will be presented via slides and commentary. Learn about the place called the birth canal of the American Industrial Revolution and about America's hardest working river. This 'tour' is free and open to the public.

 The staff and advisor of Duxbury High School's literary magazine will hold a creative writing conference for middle school students from 3:00 to 4:30 on Tuesday, December 11.

A Burlington developer has agreed to buy the 40-unit Brewster Commons and wants to drop the affordable housing development’s 55 plus age requirement.

The school department is requesting $1.3 million more for its budget next year.

The school department is considering cancelling February school vacation for the next two years in order to create an extra long summer for the move to the new middle and high school.

Join the Plymouth Philharmonic for a celebration of the season with Steven Karidoyanes conducting on Dec. 8 and 9 at Memorial Hall in Plymouth. 

This winter could be a difficult time for some of our neighbors to keep their homes heated.  Last year nearly 150 families in Duxbury asked for fuel assistance from the Duxbury Interfaith Council and the South Shore Community Action Council.   The DIC depends on donations to meet these heating needs.

Deborah Anderson, who served as the Clipper’s acting publisher for the past year has been named publisher on a permanent basis. Deborah will work with Editor-in-Chief David Mittell Jr., himself a Duxbury native and former Patriot Ledger and Providence Journal columnist.

The state Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs announced last week that Duxbury is one of six coastal communities receiving grants dedicated to improved coastal water quality. Duxbury will receive $124,115 to begin construction of three systems that will capture and filter storm water flowing into Kingston Bay along Bay Road. The hope is to be able to reopen shellfish beds that have been polluted by contaminated run-off.

The town has been cleared by the state to repair a section of the Powder Point Bridge with a carbon fiber wrapping,  announced Town Manager Richard MacDonald this week.