Lost in the shuffle of last year’s three state titles won by DHS was the valiant effort put in by the Lady Dragon field hockey team in the opening round of last fall’s MIAA playoffs. In one of the most hard-fought and entertaining games of the year, Duxbury lost a double-OT game to Sandwich, 2-1, and had its season end at 10-5-4. While the loss was hard for the players to accept at the time, it has become a rallying cry for Coach Pam Manley’s squad and a memory they have no intention of repeating.

Tryouts for the Kingfish swim team will be held on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 4 p.m. at the Kingsbury Club in Kingston. The tryout is for children ages 7-18 for the short course season, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Sept. 8-9. Children need to know all four basic strokes (freestyle, backstroke, sidestroke and breaststroke) and be able to swim a lap of the pool (25 yards). You do not need to be a member of the Kingsbury Club to try out for or participate on this team. For more information, go to kingfishswimming.com or call Coach Jay Craft at 781-871-7287.

My life at the Marshfield Fair grew stronger this year when I focused my annual volunteering vacation on helping the 4-H Program. It’s a broad-based agricultural youth program sponsored by the Plymouth County Extension Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The perfect recipe for a party: A pristine beach, several celebrity chefs cooking up their finest food, and 40,000 Island Creek Oysters.

Controversy continues to dog the school district’s plan to change school start times, as parents and some School Committee members say survey data should not be shared outside the district.

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.