Football, beating cancer and towns duking it out in court

Good morning. This is Jen Wagner, an editor at The Patriot Ledger. Welcome to this week's edition of Your Week on the South Shore. Only for subscribers. Thanks for subscribing. And thanks for reading.

Our most popular stories this week are high school football, without a doubt. 'Tis the season. Don't miss all our coverage at https://www.patriotledger.com/sports/high-school/. We have comebacks – Braintree QB James Tellier already has his first win of 2022 – this summer he beat cancer. We have rankings, 100 players to watch and so much more. And have you signed up for the high school football newsletter delivered to your inbox twice a week?

Controversial development is on the Braintree/Weymouth town line

Braintree approved a life science facility on Weymouth's doorstep. Now, officials are fighting back. In court. Read the full story here.

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Summer on the South Shore was quite the affair years ago

ONLY FOR SUBSCRIBERS If you haven't caught our summer series, "The South Shore As It Was," it's not too late! Though, sadly, there are no more installments coming, despite summer not really being over. (If I repeat it often enough, there will be many more beach days, right?)

• In the Gay Nineties, summer ended with a bang in Houghs Neck

• Hingham's Melville Garden – 'the most famous picnic-resort in the harbor'

• Haute cuisine, saltwater baths, delicious sea air: Plymouth was once a summertime treasure

• 'A place to come enjoy': Brant Rock was a seaside retreat for city slickers

• Hull's Atlantic House - the grandest South Shore hotel of the Gilded Age

• With 'irresistible hospitality,' Squantum was a summer destination for Quincy's elite

• Scituate's Cliff Hotel attracted many stars over the years and was one of the longest-standing grand hotels on the South Shore

• Remembering Weymouth's Lovell’s Grove as the playground of yesteryear

• Black Rock House: 'A summer playground for the elite' in Cohasset

• Duxbury's grand old Myles Standish Hotel drew high-end guests with spring water, sea air

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