Wicked Local - Quincy

Former Gov. Paul Cellucci said in a statement Friday he is “honored and humbled” by the Massachusetts Senate’s vote this week to name the state’s ALS Registry after him.

The tactics used by union officials to express their displeasure with the general contractor building Quincy’s new YMCA are at best tasteless and at worst damaging to the unions’ reputations.

 GateHouse Media has named The Patriot Ledger its Newspaper of the Year for the second straight year. GateHouse is The Ledger’s parent company.

As a participant of the Quincy Cycle (Quincycle) bike ride on May 5 around the streets of Merrymount, Germantown and Houghs Neck, I would like to express my appreciation on the courtesy extended to us by the drivers of Quincy.

A Senate budget amendment the could be voted on Thursday would funnel more state money to hospitals like Quincy Medical Center to treat Medicaid patients, reducing a burden smaller hospitals say have long contributed to their financial woes

The president of the Quincy and South Shore Building Trades Council said the umbrella union organization did not authorize heckling at a Tuesday ceremony to mark mark progress on the new South Shore YMCA in Quincy

A much younger Timothy Murray worked in the mail room at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce while he was still a student in high school. Now lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Murray will resign next month to become the chamber’s president.

Local residents and the landlord of the Waltham home where three people were killed in 2011 said reports that a man, before he was killed by the FBI, was going to admit that he and one of the Marathon bombing suspects had a role in the homicides could bring closure to the community.

Police say a Lexington man sold the addiction-treatment drug Suboxone to an undercover police officer at the Quincy Center station on Tuesday.

Lt. Gov. Tim Murray will resign to accept a job as head of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce. He said he was not seeking the position when chamber leaders approached him about it, and that his departure has nothing to do with a probe into his campaign's acceptance of donations from the disgraced former director of the Chelsea Housing Authority.

A lawsuit filed by fired Quincy police officer Joseph McGunigle alleging the city violated his First Amendment rights has survived its first legal test.

Mayor Thomas Koch will announce Thursday that he will run for a fourth term in the November election.

Nicole Jorgensen’s three-run home run capped a seven-run first inning Tuesday as the Presidents rolled to a 13-0 win that kept their playoff hopes alive. Quincy sophomore Saxon Bresnahan allowed only two hits in the five-inning game.

Norfolk County’s biggest community is set to become the latest to join Sheriff Michael Bellotti’s Yellow Dot program for elderly drivers.

The Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court has reprimanded Quincy attorney Robert Cabana.

The Squantum School PTO will host “Squantum Springfest” from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 2. The event will take place at the field behind Squantum Elementary School at 50 Huckins Ave.

Members of the South Shore Buildng Trades Council heckled a ceremonial event today for the new South Shore YMCA location in Quincy.

Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild – from an acupuncturist.

The Fore River Bridge is scheduled to open at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, to let an oil tanker pass, halting Route 3A traffic for 15 to 45 minutes.

The South Shore has some of the friendliest people around. If they are retired, they may be even more likely to make time for conversation. A stop at Pemberton Point proves the point.