Weymouth

Despite rising coronavirus case numbers that lifted the city into the high-risk category on Massachusetts’ coronavirus hot spot map, Weymouth Public Schools is pushing forward with its hybrid learning plan. But that decision is being met with some skepticism. “If things change and things got worse, I would consider” fully remote learning, said parent Colleen Conners, who has two children…

School districts across Massachusetts have to look at coronavirus numbers on their own and then make their own decisions on whether to move to remote learning.

Investigators still have not determined what triggered an automatic shutdown and natural gas release at the Weymouth compressor station on Wednesday, and Congressman Stephen Lynch said the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be asked for assistance. After a tour of the facility, whose operations are paused under federal orders prompted by two recent incidents, Lynch said that the FBI will…

Rep. Stephen Lynch renewed his call for regulators to shut down a controversial natural gas compressor station in Weymouth, Massachusetts, after a new blowout.

The energy company Enbridge will pause its planned start of operations at its natural gas compressor station in Weymouth, Massachusetts, after the facility required two emergency shutdowns in the past three weeks, imposing a delay that surprised its critics. A spokesperson for Enbridge, which built the facility as part of its Atlantic Bridge pipeline, said Thursday that the station will…

After two emergency shutdowns in less than three weeks, the opening of a controversial gas compressor station on the South Shore has been put on hold.

Smoke backed up in a cancer center at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Monday, causing the building’s evacuation and bringing out firefighters. The incident was caused by an air handler at the Dana-Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center about 11:30 a.m., South Shore Health said. People were seen outside the building Monday as Weymouth firefighters set up a...

One man is dead following an early morning fire at an apartment in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Firefighters responded to the Avana Weymouth Apartments on Mediterranean Street shortly before 2a.m. on Saturday and saw smoke billowing out of a window of a first floor apartment. According to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, 40-year-old Bruce Miller, who lived in the apartment died...

Police have arrested a Massachusetts man they say stomped his family’s pet Chihuahua to death and tried to hide the body. Weymouth police say 19-year-old Shykeim Basden faces arraignment Tuesday after his arrest Monday on several charges including animal cruelty. Officers responded to reports of the killing at about 3:30 p.m. A witness told responding officers that Basden had...

A 37-year-old Massachusetts man is accused of murdering his 61-year-old father in a home they shared in Weymouth. Family members contacted police Saturday night after they went to check on the Lochmere Avenue home. “The scene they observed led them to exit the home and contact police by 911 call,” Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrisey said in a written…

William D. Walling, Jr., is expected to be arraigned Monday in Quincy District Court on a murder charge in the death of his father.

A 19-year-old has died after being stabbed in Weymouth Thursday night, police said Ryan Martin was allegedly stabbed by someone he didn’t know during a gathering in the woods near 83 Colonels Drive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was transported to South Shore Hospital but he did not survive his injuries, according to officials. On Friday afternoon, officials announced that Kelsey…

A Massachusetts elementary school will not close permanently after public outcry in response to a proposal. Weymouth Public Schools shocked parents and students last week when the district announced that budget issues stemming from the coronavirus pandemic were threatening to force the closure of Nash Primary School. Monday, the district said the school would not close down. “After listening to…

The debate over whether or not to close a Massachusetts elementary school is now over.

As many schools cancel the rest of the year, parents in Weymouth were shocked to learn their elementary school could close permanently.

Lori-Ann O’Hare has spent weeks making face masks with her group the Masked Crusaders in Weymouth, sewing them for friends, first responders and essential workers. For O’Hare, she says it highlights that when there are people in need, there are even more willing to help.

Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire that broke out at Union Point, the site of an abandoned former naval air station in Weymouth, late Wednesday night. The South Weymouth Naval Air station has been closed since 1997 and the area hasn’t been redeveloped since, causing water issues due to a lack of hydrants in the area, according to the Weymouth Fire…

Firefighters rushed to the scene of a massive blaze in Weymouth.

A car rolled over off the highway and caught fire in Weymouth, killing the driver inside early Saturday morning. The single-vehicle crash took place on Route 3 Southbound, south of exit 16 in Weymouth. Police were called to the scene around 2:14 a.m. The victim was driving a 2019 Dodge Charger, which drove off the left side of the roadway…

A funeral Mass was held Saturday morning for four members of the same Massachusetts family who were killed in a car crash while on vacation in Florida. The services took place at St. Francis Xavier Church in Weymouth at 10 a.m. Saturday, according to their obituaries. Josephine Fay, 76; her daughter Julie Smith, 41; and Smith’s children Jaxon, 11, and…