Massachusetts law, as well as his own contract, would prevent Duxbury Police Chief Mark DeLuca from joining a labor union, Town Counsel Robert Troy said this week.

In Duxbury, the costs to dispose of a mattress at the transfer station, eat a meal at the Senior Center, or obtain a gun license at the police department all have something in common: they have just gotten more expensive.

As bad as the municipal budget picture has been, Duxbury Superintendent of Schools Susan Skeiber is warning that we haven’t seen the worst of things.

“FY 11 doesn’t look to be an easy year for budgets,” Skeiber said at last week’s School Committee meeting.

A proposal to sell lobsters at a local cranberry bog has received approval from town officials, but the idea may never reach fruition.

We encounter many amazing experiences in our lives, all of which have their own degree of impact.  But few experiences in my life have affected me as much as being a participant in the Appalachia Service Project.  I’ve participated in three ASP trips with Holy Family Church in the last four years as an adult leader, and I wouldn’t trade this experience shared with my daughter, Jacquie, for anything.

Debate has intensified on Beacon Hill and across the nation over whether Gov. Deval Patrick should be granted the power to appoint a temporary short-term replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society celebrated the 200th anniversary of the King Caesar House on Powder Point by holding a bash, where the society debuted a 20-minute CGI movie showing what the estate looked like when it was built.