Jessica Trufant

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Alison Monger has spent several decades combing the beaches of the South Shore for sea glass and the last few years making art with it. It started as a cathartic way to spend her free time after her family moved from Denver to Scituate in 2002. She collected a huge bin of glass that's been weathered and worn by the ocean into cloudy, smooth fragments. “It’s meditative and cathartic and it frees up your mind to focus on one thing,” Monger, of Scituate, said.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Trufant

Alison Monger has spent several decades combing the beaches of the South Shore for sea glass and the last few years making art with it. It started as a cathartic way to spend her free time after her family moved from Denver to Scituate in 2002. She collected a huge bin of glass that's been weathered and worn by the ocean into cloudy, smooth fragments. “It’s meditative and cathartic and it frees up your mind to focus on one thing,” Monger, of Scituate, said.

1 week ago | patriotledger.com | Jessica Trufant

A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a buffer zone outside the Dedham courthouse meant to keep protesters at bay during Karen Read's second murder trial can remain, but police have to change how it's enforced. Judge Myong J. Joun, on May 28, ruled on the motion filed by Read supporters who sued Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone for implementing the buffer zone. The plaintiffs were seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.

1 week ago | patriotledger.com | Jessica Trufant

The United States recently marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, which lead to the death of more than 58,000 Americans. The first American death in the nearly two-decades long war and the first name chronologically on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Richard Fitzgibbon Jr., of Weymouth. On June 8, 1956, Fitzgibbon died after he was shot by a fellow airman while in South Vietnam. He was 35 years old.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jessica Trufant

T-shirts with a map showing the tongue-in-cheek executive order by Mayor Bob Hedlund to rename Hingham Bay as the Gulf of Weymouth have raised more than $7,000 to honor a pair of veterans. Playing off of President Donald Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Hedlund in February shared the satire on Facebook with an updated map reflecting the change. The Facebook post got thousands of “likes,” shares and comments and even prompted a response from Hingham.