Wayland beats Weston 55 to 12 in high school wrestling action.

Much has changed since 1929, when the first Flying Santa descended with gifts on Boston Light. Even as other lighthouses have gone 21st century, this seaside tradition with gifts, decorations and more lives on off the Hull coast, in a place accessible only by air or by sea. Read more in Monday's Patriot Ledger or at PatriotLedger.com.

Watch Scituate Fire Chief Richard Judge discuss the explosion of a house on Turner Road in Scituate which killed one person.

Watch footage of the wreckage from the explosion of a house on Turner Road in Scituate.

Tom Davey of Milford, Mass. was 8 and living on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii when Japan attacked the U.S. naval fleet in the Pacific on Dec. 7, 1941. For the 67th anniversary, he reflects on the day that changed history.

The Winchester Star recently rode along with Mission of Deeds volunteer Chuck Adelsberger.

Video by Craig Murray Enterprisenews.com
A BABE IN ARMS, A LIFE OF THANKS
For Philip and Cassandra Petit of Brockton, this Thanksgiving has very special meaning.
Their son Maxwell had life saving surgery at Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston to remove a massive tumor and is receiving chemotherapy as he battles cancer, but the seven-month-old boy is doing great and the new family has many new blessings.
Enterprise staff reporter Maureen Boyle tells their story in The Enterprise and at enterprisenews.com.
Here is part of their story.

( http://tinyurl.com/5w7vww )Actor Robert Pattinson meets his fans at Square One Mall in Saugus, MA. Interviews with fans of Pattinson, who plays vampire character Edward Cullen, in movie Twilight,based on book by Stephenie Meyers.

Cambridge-based E Ink shows off its new product. Could it mean newspapers can finally be saved?

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge

The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass.
www.enterprisenews.com

Catherine Murdock Dewey of Quincy and two "chums" opened the first all-women law firm in downtown Boston in 1933. She turns 100 on Nov. 1 and is being honored by the New England School of Law, which also celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Retired U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the high court, is the keynote speaker at the school's celebration. Dewey reflects on her life and the law.

Olympic silver medalist Alicia Sacramone is welcomed home to Winchester

I caught up backstage at the Bank of America Pavillion in Boston on Aug. 24, 2008 with Steven Tyler's cousin Steve Talarico, the president of Red Wing Motorcycles, who describes in this video what Boston For Africa is all about and Tyler's contribution to it. Tyler and Talarico are "distant cousins" & Tyler is an artistic designer for Red Wing Motorcycles. By Cathleen Jeffrey WickedLocal.com PatriotLedger.com

If you've ever wondered how all those LNG tankers and large ships maneuver in and around Boston Harbor -- this video is for you. It explains the role of the boat pilots of Boston Harbor. By Cathleen Jeffrey

The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass.
www.enterprisenews.com
'Insane' violence shakes city
By Maria Papadopoulos
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
BROCKTON — Lisa Hanlon heard six gunshots near the James Edgar Playground on Winthrop Street around dinnertime Wednesday and thought they were firecrackers.
Moments later, after loud screams echoed outside, she would join several neighbors trying to stop the bleeding on an 18-year-old male shot multiple times and lying on a porch at 141 Winthrop St., across the street from the playground.
"The chest was the one (wound) that was bleeding the most," said Hanlon, 39, a health care worker. "I just told them to keep talking to him, because he was fading in and out of consciousness, and to hold pressure to where the gun wounds were."
The 18-year-old, whose name was not released Wednesday night, was in critical condition and undergoing surgery Wednesday night at a local hospital following the 6:07 p.m. shooting, police said. He was shot multiple times in the leg and chest area, witnesses said.
A 7-year-old boy, whose name was also not released Wednesday night, suffered non-life-threatening injuries near his eye, police said.
"He might have caught a piece of bullet fragment," said Lt. Tom LaFratta.
Wednesday's brazen daytime shooting happened less that five days after a 17-year-old was shot dead in Brockton.
Jose Gurley, 17, was gunned down early Saturday morning at Roosevelt Heights, a city-owned housing complex on Brockton's North Side. He was the third teen to be shot dead in Brockton in the past two months. No arrests have been made in that shooting, police said.
On Winthrop Street, witnesses said a car was driving by when they heard gunshots. Police recovered a handgun in bushes on nearby West Harvard Street shortly after the shooting.
No suspects had been identified by 11 p.m. Wednesday.
City residents came out of their homes to see a state police helicopter hovering over West Elm Street and Belmont Avenue shortly after the shooting looking for the suspect or suspects.
Dozens of youths and parents filled Winthrop Street near the crime scene Wednesday as state and Brockton police recovered evidence behind yellow police tape. A boys' bicycle was among evidence taken from the scene. Five shell casings were found, police said.
"It sickens me that these kids are shooting each other," said Ward 2 City Councilor Michael Brady, in whose ward the shooting happened, at the scene.
"What's going on in Brockton is just insane," Hanlon said. "There are enough shootings right now that's going on. It's insane."
Brockton Police Chief William Conlon, who responded to Wednesday's crime scene, said gun violence in the city "is an ongoing problem."
"There's just far too many guns out there, too easily accessible," Conlon said. "We're doing all that we can to try to put a crimp in that."
He said police are working with several agencies, including the state police, to help curb gun violence.
"Those are the types of issues that we're up against every day," said Conlon, who urged more witnesses to come forward to help solve cases.
"People have to start telling us some things," Conlon said. "Protect your family members. Don't let them be carrying guns because they're going to be used against them or they'll be using them on somebody else's family that then retaliates."
"It's just an endless cycle of violence if somebody doesn't say 'Enough is enough' and put a stop to it," Conlon said.
The historic James Edgar Playground on the city's West Side was where boxing champion Rocky Marciano once played baseball. Marciano grew up on Dover Street, across from the playground and Winthrop Street.
Casimiro Gomes, a neighborhood resident, came home from work Wednesday to find Winthrop Street flooded with state and Brockton police.
"It makes me cry every day," said Gomes, a 51-year-old father of four, of the recent shootings involving city youth. "I pray to God to help us. There's too much pain."

The Cambridge Chronicle talks with one of the artists of the Meat After Meat Joy exhibit at the Pierre Menard Gallery. The artists used various media, some including raw meat, to create their work.

A four-alarm fire in a commercial building on Pond Street in Natick, Mass. ripped through the building's stores. Firefighters arrived at about 1:15 a.m. on 6/19/08 and battled the blaze for several hours.
www.metrowestdailynews.com

The 10th Annual Mr. CHS contest at Chelmsford High School, Chelmsford, Mass.

Greg Graffin gives an acoustic performance and interview after receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Harvard Humanist Chaplain and Harvard Secular Society.

Even Ruth S. Foster gets cold and sick of winter. This week she talks about some of this summers trends when it comes to lawn furniture.

The Blizzard of 1978 happened 30 years ago next week, and residents of the South Shore of Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts remember it as if it were yesterday. The Patriot Ledger and The Enterprise asked people, from fire chiefs to commuters caught in the storm's fury, what stories they still tell about it. The storm began on Feb. 6, 1978 and just wouldn't quit.

Cape Ann Beacon photographer Kirk R. Williamson shot video at this fire which claimed one life and called in several neighboring communities to help fight the blaze which destroyed a temple and apartment complex on Middle St.

Take a trip to the British School of Falconry in Manchester, Vt.

Comedian Bob Newhart brought his long-running standup act to the AARP convention in Boston and proved again that humor has a gentle side. Who else gets laughs without going beyond "the throes of passion"?

Bobbi Brown, makeup artist to the stars and founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, learned early in life to accept her unconventional looks as beautiful. It was the people around her who sometimes needed to be convinced.
"My mother, when I was 21, came to me and said I have to talk to you. 'I think you're beautiful, but you'd be gorgeous with a nose job,'" Brown told a crowd of hundreds of women and men who came to hear her speak about looking your best after turning 50.
The topic of health and beauty in the fifth decade of life was among the most popular at the convention, with doxens of product lines and expert speakers filling the exhibition hall to offer help and product samples to the women in attendance.

Check it out: www.townonline.com/chelmsford

Revolutionary War Re-enactment, Revolution Revisited, at Thayer Birthplace, Washington Street, Braintree, Mass.