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Registration still open for 3rd annual PorchFest Quincy
QUINCY — Anyone looking to make some music on someone else's porch still has time to sign up to do so.PorchFest Quincy is back for a third year, with the event taking place from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 23.Registration for musicians who want to performat the event remains open until Thursday, May 31, according to organizers Ian Cain and Walter Hubley. Hubley said about 85 have signed up,… → Read More
Maritime Center plan to move forward this summer
QUINCY — The old Houghs Neck Maritime Center likely will come down this summer to make way for the larger boat ramp that will be the first part of a new complex, said Ward 1 councilor David McCarthy.McCarthy, who represents the area and is one of the primary city officials working on the new center, said this is the first of three stages for a project years in the making.This first stage… → Read More
Quincy College to reimburse some nursing students
Quincy College has authorized $4.5 million to go to students put out by the termination of its nursing programs. → Read More
Quincy College to reimburse some nursing students
QUINCY — Quincy College has authorized $4.5 million to go to students put out by the termination of its nursing programs.The money will come from the school's $15 million reserve fund at the request of Mayor Thomas Koch, who temporarily has taken charge of the struggling college.One week after assuming the reins of the college, Koch outlined the first steps he plans to take to try to turn it in… → Read More
Quincy at odds with Braintree company over Quincy Center parking lot
QUINCY — The city is trying to force F.X. Messina Enterprises to let it keep using a parking lot on land the company owns in Quincy Center.Mayor Thomas Koch's administration is proposing to use eminent domain to keep its use of the 100-space lot at 1565 Hancock St. for the next three years.Christopher Walker, a spokesman for Koch, said on Tuesday that the move would not give the city permanent… → Read More
Next step in Long Island Bridge feud: Quincy bans commercial vehicles from access roads
Quincy’s city council unanimously passed the law as the city continues to battle Boston’s plans to rebuild the bridge. → Read More
Quincy College drops nursing appeal
QUINCY — With Mayor Thomas Koch now in charge, Quincy College is dropping its appeal of the state's decision to end its nursing programs.The mayor made that move less than a week into his temporary tenure in charge of the college, his office said on Monday. The mayor's administration is slated to present additional information about the future of the college and its nursing programs this evening… → Read More
More budget hearings on deck for Quincy City Council
QUINCY — The city council's finance committee will hold hearings over the next two weeks as it looks to hammer out the city's budget.The first hearing will be held at 7 p.m. Monday and will be followed by a second at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, that is expected to wrap up discussion of Mayor Thomas Koch's budget proposal. At $310.8 million, the budget would represent be a 3.8 percent increase… → Read More
Quincy prepares to demolish downtown buildings
QUINCY — The city is set to demolish a row of now-vacant downtown buildings next week.Crews on Monday morning will knock down the low-lying buildings at 23 Cottage Ave. and 31 Chestnut St. it took by eminent domain last summer, said Tom Russo of the Woodard & Curran engineering firm.The city paid the former owners $3.5 million for the parcels and gave $1.9 million to the tenants as relocation… → Read More
2002 Boston study called for ferries to Long Island
QUINCY — "Activities must not generate new traffic through Quincy."That was the determination more than a decade and a half ago by consultants hired by the city of Boston as then-Mayor Thomas Menino pondered the future of Long Island.Many of the issues in the report echo in the current debate over what will happen next for the island. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is looking to rebuild the span that… → Read More
Quincy College board schedules new closed-door meeting
QUINCY — The Quincy College Board of Governors will hold another closed-door meeting Tuesday as the future of the college's president remains uncertain.The board has a previously unscheduled public meeting slated for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on the seventh floor of 1250 Hancock St., which is the college's home, Presidents Place, according to an agenda posted on the city's website.The only item on the… → Read More
Pembroke voters reject new spending for police, fire
PEMBROKE — Residents on Saturday voted against raising taxes to provide more money for police, fire and public works.By a count of 1,120 to 841, Pembroke's voters during the town election rejected the referendum question, which would have raised property taxes to fund $708,000 for two more police officers, two more firefighters and repairs to roads.Town meeting voters approved the spending… → Read More
Cohasset voters say no to override for town hall work
COHASSET — Voters on Saturday came out against raising taxes for work on town hall.During Saturday's town elections, a Proposition 2½ override that would have funded renovating and expanding town hall. The "no" votes outnumbered the "yes" votes by a count of 635 to 572.The ballot question came after town meeting voters approved the $12.5 million in spending earlier this month. The measure was… → Read More
State: 1 case of typhoid fever at North Quincy daycare
QUINCY — One child at a North Quincy daycare has been diagnosed with typhoid fever, state officials say.The child was attending Bright Horizons Daycare at 1 Enterprise Drive, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.A spokeswoman from the state agency said the state and city health departments are working with the daycare to make sure the disease is not spread to anyone… → Read More
State: 1 case of typhoid fever at North Quincy daycare
QUINCY — One child at a North Quincy daycare has been diagnosed with typhoid fever, state officials say.The child was attending Bright Horizons Daycare at 1 Enterprise Drive, according to the Masssachusetts Department of Public Health.A spokeswoman from the agency said the state and city health departments are working with the daycare to make sure the disease is not spread to anyone else.The… → Read More
State revokes approval of Quincy College nursing programs
The state board's decision comes as student test scores have been on the decline. Since 2014, exam scores for students in the college's two nursing programs have fallen to more than 20 percentage points below that state average. → Read More
State revokes approval of Quincy College nursing programs
The state board's decision comes as student test scores have been on the decline. Since 2014, exam scores for students in the college's two nursing programs have fallen to more than 20 percentage points below that state average. → Read More
Quincy College board silent on president's future
QUINCY — Quincy College’s board of governors refused to answer any questions after emerging Thursday night from a closed-door meeting on the future of college President Peter Tsaffaras.A motion had been on the agenda that would essentially have fired the college's president effective June 1.As soon as it convened, the board immediately recessed into executive session, citing pending contract… → Read More
Police seize drugs, gun in Braintree
BRAINTREE — Police say they have arrested a Quincy man who had $200,000 of drugs and a loaded handgun.An investigation involving Braintree and Quincy police resulted in the arrest of Christopher Gannon, 30, of 91 Chubbuck St., Quincy, police say.Police say they found Gannon at 8 p.m. Wednesday on Holbrook Street in the South Braintree Square area with black tar heroin and crystal… → Read More
Vote coming on Quincy College president's future
QUINCY — The Quincy College Board of Governors will hear a professional evaluation about President Peter Tsaffaras during a meeting Thursday night before they vote on whether to fire him.Amidst ongoing problems with the college's nursing program, several board members are calling for Tsaffaras' removal, and a motion to direct the college's lawyers to terminate him effective June 1 will be… → Read More