Pieces of the Hanover Mall are going to school and nonprofit groups across the region as the shopping center prepares for demolition early in 2020 bit.ly/2XJT2mf

Mike Miller was apprehensive about a bitterly frigid start to a Weymouth tradition that he had been entrusted with carrying on bit.ly/2QIyvx2

Declaring that “no member of our community should be alone or go hungry on Thanksgiving,” volunteers from Father Bill’s & MainSpring will deliver about 350 Thanksgiving meals to needy residents bit.ly/2rlM7Du

A town meeting in Milton will address a budget shortfall caused by an increase of almost $820,000 in the town’s contract for solid waste disposal and recycling bit.ly/2KMAk8b

Check out what's going on outside of Boston bit.ly/2qtSh4K

Looking for fun activities south of Boston? Check out this week's calendar events bit.ly/2DsIYVl

Nutella-stuffed banana foster French toast, chicken and waffles served with the sriracha maple-glazed bacon, and an eggs benedict with an Egyptian flavor twist bit.ly/2qXngpY

An athlete at Avon High to a primatologist in Uganda bit.ly/33A9wi2

Every day, police officers respond to reports which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our suburbs. bit.ly/2OwBgjf

Daniel Asquino recently took over as Quincy College’s new interim president bit.ly/34zXoip

English holly (Ilex aquifolium) is a big hit in Christmas holiday celebrations. bit.ly/2Pg7f6K

Milton’s Town Meeting voted to close an almost $820,000 budget shortfall caused by unanticipated increases in the contracts for solid waste disposal and recycling. bit.ly/2OQHNpk

Runaway horses, a stolen snowblower and a woman calling the police on pillows bit.ly/33RCtq6

What’s happening south of Boston bit.ly/2qu3x0Y

South Shore Children's Museum has moved to Kingston. bit.ly/2RlHLr0

Claire Betts and her husband, Kevin, went to the Edaville Railroad Christmas Festival of Lights for one of their first dates in the 1970s bit.ly/38yK0gU

When then first-grader Pragna Lal attended the Boston March for our Lives rally against gun violence with her family in 2018, it left her with a simple question: Why do people inflict violence on others? bit.ly/2Mgzm57

Healthy foods taste delicious at Cohasset's Daily Press bit.ly/2ScATwE

Russian icons, language classes, and a Menorah lighting bit.ly/2Sk1Yyd

Should low speed electric bikes be allowed on multi-use paths in Mass.? bit.ly/2Q9MoCB