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MARSHFIELD — A sold-out crowd of 300 guests attended South Shore Peer Recovery’s third annual “Recovery Rocks” fundraiser that was held at Salt River Farm on Thursday night in Marshfield. The Scituate-based South Shore Peer Recovery had a full night of events that included music by Border Road, the band Neighbors, and Lisa Jason. The night raised close to $200,000. Peer Recovery founder John Kimmett addressed the audience saying that all of the money raised would…

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DORCHESTER — Hundreds of well-wishers and mourners lined the streets of Dorchester near St. Ann’s church in Neponset for a touching farewell to Jimmy Hayes, a local native and former pro hockey player who died unexpectedly recently. He was 31. Although the actual funeral Mass was for immediate family only, the area outside the church to Florian Hall was lined with Dorchester residents, participants in the local youth hockey program, Jimmy’s friends from his days…

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BOSTON — Bill and his brother Harry took a (photo) stroll from the Faneuil Hall Marketplace to the North End, where the annual St. Anthony’s Festival was taking place. The scenes they spotted showed a city that looks to have rebounded, with tourists and diners and lots of traffic. Nary a face mask in sight, however. Diners in the North End sat just inches away from the traffic to eat their meals. But the Bretts…

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BOSTON — Family and friends turned out to celebrate Carol and Ed Celeta’s 60th wedding anniversary at a party at the Boston Harbor Hotel. The couple were married at St. Theresa of Avila in West Roxbury on August 5, 1961. The fete was hosted by the couple’s children: Jimmy Celeta, Judith Celeta, Edward Celeta, and Nancy Balzano. Also attending the party were grandchildren Kristina, John, Anna, Emma, and Mia, and great-grandchild John. All photos by…

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DORCHESTER — More than 300 guests turned out for a send-off event at Florian Hall in Dorchester for “Paulie’s Push to Honor and Remember,” a fundraiser in which Paul Veneto, a retired United Airlines flight attendant, will push an airline beverage cart more than 200 miles. Veneto will push the beverage cart from Logan Airport in Boston to Ground Zero in New York, for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. He decided to do this to…

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