Whitman-Hanson Express

02/11/2023

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09/08/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/season-preview-boys-golf-driving-for-improvement/

For the Whitman-Hanson Regional High boys’ golf team, the goal is pretty simple this autumn.

09/08/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/season-preview-field-hockey-starting-over-again/

Todd Humphrey has a lot of new faces running around at practice.

09/03/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/whitman-ta-has-resigned/

WHITMAN —Town Administrator Lincoln Heineman has resigned from that position, effective Monday, Aug. 15 Select Board Chair Randy LaMattina announced following an executive session of the board during a special meeting on Thursday, Aug. 25. The board had also voted, during that executive session on...

09/03/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/west-nile-found-in-hanson-whitman/

The boards of health in Whitman and Hanson have been notified of what has become a late summer tradition — a positive West Nile Virus positive mosquito sample in Hanson and Whitman. While the risk of human infections is low, certain steps should be taken to protect yourself, the boards have joined...

09/03/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/a-summer-of-career-exploration/

HANOVER — So, how did you spend your summer vacation? For 140 middle school students who said summer school, it wasn’t all remedial work. In fact, for students in the eight member towns of the South Shore Tech district, it was quite the opposite. For the second year, students in grades six to ei...

09/03/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/its-back-to-school-time/

The School Committee was updated on school start times. COVID protocols and heard updates on the strategic plan working groups at its Wednesday, Aug. 24 meeting. The district’s schools opened for the 2022-23 school year on Wednesday, Aug. 31. “We are ready to go,” Superintendent of Schools Jef...

09/03/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/season-preview-football-team-hoping-to-compete-for-a-league-championship/

Are you ready for some football?

06/26/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/coda-on-teaching-careers/

It hasn’t been as dramatic as “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” but retiring W-H Regional High School music teachers Devin Dondero and Donald Legge can see the difference they’ve made for students in the 20 [for Legge] or the 25 [years for Dondero] in which they have taught at the school. “We just d...

06/26/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/hanson-eyes-regionalization-pathways/

HANSON – The Select Board on Tuesday, June 14 voted to support exploratory conversations with Silver Lake about what a possible regional agreement with that district might cost and look like.  But any such conversation is not likely to happen anytime soon, as the town is expecting to have a cost ...

06/26/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/pastor-prepares-for-mission-to-ukraine/

HANSON – There may not be a lot of Americans hoping they will be sent to Ukraine anytime soon, but that’s just what the Rev. Dr. Peter Smith of the First Congregational Church in Hanson is hoping will happen for him. “Whether I get to go there or not, we’re trying to support this need […]

06/26/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/whitman-ready-to-review-regional-pact/

WHITMAN – School Committee Chair Christopher Howard met with the Select Board on Tuesday, June 21 to gauge the board’s appetite to get together and rework the regional school agreement and thoughts on makeup of the current subcommittee. “I think Whitman is committed to our partnership and defi...

06/26/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/making-an-nba-mock-draft-of-the-last-four-years-of-players-at-whitman-hanson-regional-high/

In honor of last week's NBA Draft, the Express made a mock draft of players to hit the court for Whitman-Hanson Regional High over the past four years.

03/05/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/girls-hoop-cruises-into-sweet-16/

Whitman-Hanson Regional High girls’ basketball head coach Mike Costa is no stranger to playoff basketball.

03/05/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/icing-on-the-cake-whk-peewee-hockey-team-wins-state-championship/

They are the champions — the state champions that is.

03/05/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/preparing-for-spring-at-south-shore-tech/

BUDDING CAREERS: The hard work of spring goes on while the snow is still on the ground. Seniors Ryan Franceschini of Hanson and Jaylise Oehlschlagel of Whitman, above from left, and freshman Ryan McCosker of Rockland, from left at left, and seniors Ryan Franceschini and Brady Cook of Hanson, were am...

03/05/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/rec-policies-under-review/

HANSON – The Board of Selectmen has approved a revised policy and procedures document – minus a few points of concern on which they sought clarification or amendments. Recreation Commission Chairman Frank Milisi reported on its revised policies and procedures for the Board of Selectmen’s appro...

03/05/2022

https://whitmanhansonexpress.com/whitman-capital-panel-weighs-budget-role/

WHITMAN – The Capital Committee members, meeting remotely Thursday, Feb. 17, took a look in the mirror to assess the panel’s role in addressing the funding of capital projects for the town. They also reviewed some of the DPW’s requests for capital equipment in the fiscal 2023 budget. “For th...