Duxbury Post 223, American Legion, announces that the annual Veterans Day services will be held at the post home, corner of West and Tremont Streets, at 11 a.m., Tuesday Nov. 11.

Following the services, a reception will be held to honor Duxbury’s veterans. In addition, the annual Francis Perry Toast will be offered in honor of all departed comrades. Refreshments will be served. The public, members of the armed forces, and veterans of all wars, are invited to attend this service. For information, call Dave Murphy at 781-934-5460.

 

Duxbury’s Board of Selectmen are defending a decision to allow Police Chief Mark DeLuca to control the use of police details at work site –– despite a push by Governor Deval Patrick to reform the issue.

Plans by the Tarklin Study Committee to revamp the former school building got a boost when the building was listed as one of Massachusetts’s most endangered historic resources by Preservation Massachusetts.

Residents of Island Creek showed up in droves to support the new project that would double the size of the development off Tremont Street.

A boxing league run by Duxbury Police Chief Mark DeLuca is being sued by the landlord of a Quincy building where the amateur boxing league formerly operated.

Currently, the boxing league is operating out of Whitman. DeLuca is a former professional boxer and commissioner of boxing in the state.

Duxbury’s own Buildings and Grounds Manager Peter Buttkus is the new Director of the Department of Public Works.

An altercation between players at the town recreation department boys’ basketball game for 8 and 9 year olds Saturday led to a the father of one of those involved grabbing a coach who had interceded in the apparent shoving match.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bourgault of Mill Pond Lane announce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle, to Ryan Patrick Craaybeek.  Danielle is a 1995 graduate of Duxbury High School and holds multiple degrees from James Madison University.  Danielle is a school psychologist in the Gilbert, Ariz. school system.  Ryan is the son of Susan Craabeek and the late Gary Craaybeek.  He is a graduate of St. Peter’s High School in Peterborough, Ontario, and the University of Phoenix.  Ryan is a business development manager in Scottsdale, Ariz.  A May 2010 wedding is planned in Paradise Valley, Ariz.

The last two days of the historical dig on Chestnut Street unearthed a discovery of great historical significance. “Everything really came into focus,” said Craig Chartier of the Plymouth Archeology Rediscovery Project. “We couldn’t have hoped for more.”

The two-week dig had been a success right from the start, as volunteers excavated dozens of artifacts from Pilgrim and Native American times. They also found a stone foundation, proving the spot was the location of Duxbury’s second meetinghouse. (The first was located where Standish Cemetery is now, the third is where the First Parish Church is on Tremont Street.)

But it was on the last day of digging that the team really stumbled upon something special.

Diggers discovered a series of post holes, 20 inches in diameter, along the north wall of the foundation. This means the building was originally constructed by means of “post-in-hole construction.” This was the way buildings were built at Plimoth Plantation, and it was thought that the technique hadn’t been used since.

It will be all hands on deck during the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society's archeological dig at the Second Meetinghouse site this October, as volunteers from the community will assist in the digging, scraping and sorting of historic artifacts.

The society is sponsoring the project, which will involve excavating a patch of land on Chestnut Street by the Standish Cemetery that is believed to be the site of Duxbury's second meetinghouse. The dig will take place over two weeks from Oct. 6-18.

“This is a very exciting project,” said Patrick Browne, president of the society. “We've got a big list of people who have signed up.”