Fifty years ago next month, Giovanni Belfiore's ship came in. The 18-year-old junior officer was the youngest crewmember aboard the Italian freighter Etrusco which was grounded March 16, 1956 on Cedar ...

“Never start a restaurant on the moon,” says my friend John. “Why’s that?” “It’ll have no atmosphere, dude.” Man. Should have seen that coming. He’s just declined to take the trolley with me south to ...

But one in particular changed Scituate profoundly – and that was the wreck of the freighter Etrusco in March 1956. Historians have written how the Etrusco wreck drew thousands to the Scituate shore ...

Andy McDonald of Scituate arrived at 1 Common St. on an important errand past Wednesday. His father-in-law, who broke his pelvis in a fall, had nearly recovered. To get on his feet, though, he needed ...