Duxbury, United States (Local)
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Hall's Corner The Planning Board is checking its list to implement the town’s comprehensive plan, better known as Envision Duxbury. At their meeting last Monday, Board members considered such topics as expanding the supply of housing, EV charging stations and historic preservation.
The entrance to the Lakeshore Drive well. What’s getting into the water supply? That was the focus of the Board of Health’s meeting on June 18. The discussion centered around nitrogen runoff from fertilizer and continued concerns over excess levels of PFAS in the Lakeshore Drive well. Most towns on Cape Cod have rules about fertilizers and nitrogen, Health Agent […]
The former Miramar Retreat Center recently sold for $8,750,000. The Duxbury Planning Board wants to know more about what’s going on at the site of the former Miramar Retreat. As first reported by local blogger Christine Hill, representatives of the buyers, Miramar Estates LLC, recently signed an agreement with the town of Kingston to connect to that town’s sewer system. […]
Local wildlife rehabilitator Su- sanna Tuffy holds a young racoon orphaned by rodenticide. The racoon later died from the poison in his mother’s milk. Duxbury is another step closer to having a formal policy regarding the use of rodenticides, particularly what are known as second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides. The Board of Health heard from Conservation Administrator Nancy Rufo, who described the […]
Dr. Jennifer Tufts Jennifer Tufts, the first psychiatrist to treat Lindsay Clancy, testified over the course of two days in the Duxbury woman’s murder trial. Clancy is accused in the strangulation deaths of her daughter, Cora, 5, and son, Dawson, 3, who were pronounced dead on Jan. 24, the day of the murders, and her son, Callan, age 8 months, […]
An example of what a new bridge might look like. Whether the Powder Point Bridge is historic could be the key to keeping it as a wooden, or, at least, mostly wooden structure. That was one of the multiple points touched upon during a meeting of the Fiscal Advisory Committee last week. Residents and town officials also discussed the costs […]
Duxbury’s Planning Department has an opportunity to get assistance from some college students. Master’s Degree students from the Tufts University Field Projects Program have offered to come to town to offer their help, Planning Board Chair Kristin Rappe said at last Monday’s meeting. The first step, though, is to come up with some ideas. Planning Board Member […]
Eastern equine encephalitis has returned to the South Shore as the virus was detected in mosquito samples found in Kingston on Aug. 17. Despite being a neighboring town, state officials continue to set the risk level for EEE in Duxbury at low. The risk level was raised to moderate in Carver, Halifax, Kingston and Plympton. No human or animal cases […]
The Bluefish River has been overtaken by invasive plants. The Upper Bluefish River is plagued by invasive plants and bacteria, reducing water quality and habitat value. That’s according to a report issued by the Coastal Resiliency Task Force. The report was written by the Woods Hole Group using a $94,000 state grant Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Agency. The report is […]
Standards for weight capacity could limit Duxbury’s options on thePowder Point Bridge. The Fiscal Advisory Committee considered some of the obstacles to getting the Powder Point Bridge Duxbury wants at its meeting last Wednesday. The Committee was being asked to consider how much each possible bridge option would cost, as well as the cost of maintaining it. The options included […]
