On one of his day of travels, Bill Brett filled his tank at the station on Rte. 53 in Weymouth (near St. Albert’s church), which, he noted, pumps the gas for you. (It is a bylaw in a few Mass communities.) And he spotted this second gas station in Boston (at Mass Ave. and Columbus Ave.) The statewide average, according to AAA, is $3.20 per gallon, up about a dollar from 2020 and right about…

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HINGHAM — Sone 1,600 tickets had been sold for the Mad Love Music Festival even before the gates opened at the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham on Sunday. Among the groups that performed were Dalton & the Sheriffs, Los Elk, These Wild Plains, Aldous Collins Band, Gracie Grace & All the Goodboys, and Overnight. Mad Love is a one-day celebration that raises money to support South Shore Conservatory scholarships given in the name of Dave…

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DORCHESTER — St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children hosted a hybrid dinner and online event to raise money and gain support for their programs to benefit women and children. This 18th Diamonds of Dorchester was held at the Venezia Restaurant and honored former Boston Mayor, now US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh. All photos by Bill Brett

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DORCHESTER — Veteran Boston journalist and radio host Dan Rea and his wife, Jeanne, made a “substantional gift” to the University of Massachusetts Boston to renovate and endow the weight room in the school’s Clark Athletic Center, UMass announced. Rea, who graduated from Boston State College a decade before it merged with UMass Boston, chose to honor the importance of both institutions and their athletic programs through the “Dan Rea ’70 Boston State College Varsity…

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