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So, what, some Hingham girl refused to go out with Brian McGrory in high school or something?

By adamg on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 10:09am

True, it's been awhile, but McGrory's back to Hingham bashing, this time over some Town Meeting vote a month ago. What's next? A column advising Terry Francona what to do about John Lackey?

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By Coh_girl on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 10:38am.

I am not as familiar with McGrory's other articles, but I love his anti-Hingham pieces, having grown up next door to that town. Hingham deserves all the bashing it gets.

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By chrismatth on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:02am.

As a Scituate resident, I gotta agree with Coh_girl.

My dad always raved about an '05 McGrory column talking about Commuter Rail anger and proposed slogans for the Town of Hingham, and his particular favorite was "Pretending to be Cohasset Since 1635."

Here's the others, from http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/...

But it's the minority of petulant Hingham prima donnas who give the town's intelligent majority a bad name. To that end, perhaps they should have considered a few other slogans:

"Keep Out." That might be the cheap way to go, given that they probably already have the signs printed.

"Where the Old World Meets the Nouveau Riche."

"Pretending to be Cohasset Since 1635."

"We Stand in Opposition."

"Hingham. Where money is everything."

"We share a border with Weymouth, but nothing in common."

"The Escalade Capital of New England."

Old me. Bad me. No more, never again, I promise.

But I'll leave with this one thought, the slogan that will be announced so many times a day in Weymouth's Jackson Square once the Greenbush Line opens in 2006. ''Next stop: Hingham."

And what a wonderful stop it will be.

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By Pete Nice on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:18am.

But sometimes these high lights can shine right into the windows of neigboring homes.

And many towns have shot down proposals for 100+ foot light stands on athletic fields.

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By Ron Newman on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 7:33pm.

say, 10 or 11 pm, when anyone using the fields should be required to stop playing and go home? That would easily solve this problem.

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By Kate on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 2:47pm.

This guy sounds a bit crazy. But in his defense, Hingham does kind of suck.

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By plt3012 on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 3:48pm.

I have to agree McGrory on this. I recall a comment in an article about the Greenbush Line a few years back. He quoted a man who said that many of the people opposed to it were: "One generation removed from Dot Ave." Pretenders!

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By NotWhitey on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 4:58pm.

I'm not familiar with Hingham, but some towns certainly do have more than their fair share of suck. Is it Scituate or Cohasset where the people of Third Cliff say that you're not a native until you have three generations buried in the local cemetery?

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By anon on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 6:45pm.

In June, when he was back at his Hingham bashing...Brian bought a house in equally bucolic Sudbury, pretending to be Weston since 1970, but here's the kicker - he paid $1.2M and has 5000SF of living space on a very green acre! So when he starts claiming his Weymouth blue collar roots, tell him he's the next Mike Barnicle - but not quite good enough to live in Lincoln like Mike.

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