While the 2011-2012 winter has been a mild one with little snow, there has been enough powder and ice in Hanson to plow through the town’s budget for snow removal.

Whitman Selectmen have been asked by the north central Massachusetts town of Erving to join them in supporting a bill to change the way presidential electors are chosen effectively working around the Electoral College without amending the Constitution.

Seeing their son on the cover of an L.L. Bean 100th anniversary catalog has brought lots of excitement, and some insight into the creative process, to one Hanson family.

Consolidation of bus routes, and a change in school start times has helped reduce the number of buses used in Whitman-Hanson schools to 21 — down from 29 last year and one less than projected in March 2011, accoring to Director of Technology Services Craig Finley.

The South Shore Vocational Technical High School budget for fiscal year 2013 has been approved by the School Committee at $10,941,227 — a 4.8 percent spending increase — by a unanimous 8-0 vote.

Penelope Medeiros, 2 1/2, spent a little time crafting this tiny snowman from the snow left after a day of melting outside the Whitman Public Library Tuesday afternoon. Her big sister Joanna was attending a Brownies meeting inside.              

Two Whitman Marine Corps reservists returned from a four-month deployment in Afghanistan early Friday morning to happy, proud and relieved family members.

Eric Williams is the first to admit he’s lucky to be alive and recovering so well after being critically injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Broad Street in Whitman last October.

The decision to outsource school custodial work to S.J. Services of Danvers remains a controversial one in some quarters, but Whitman-Hanson Facilities Director Ernest Sandland says he has seen improvement in the working relationship between the company and the school district in recent months.