With a new week just getting started, we re taking a look back at the week that was here in Greater Taunton. What were the stories that most spoke to our readers? More than 25,000 of you visited us last week, and these are the five stories that readers engaged most with this past week:
Trailer released for Don t Look Up
Massachusetts is no stranger to seeing film crews out and about, and the trailer just dropped for one of the latest projects to be filmed in our area: Don t Look Up. Back in December, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence were filming in Fall River, and Lawrence and Timothée Chalamet were filming in Brockton not so long ago. Don t Look Up has been described as a satirical, political disaster movie about a killer asteroid hurtling toward Earth. The movie will be released later this year on Netflix.
Dighton Select Board: Selectman name change rejected in April election tauntongazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tauntongazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hull won a decisive victory with, nearly double the votes of his opponent Jennifer Duczkowski. I didn t choose to run, Hull said. People came to me and asked me, with their concerns. This will not be the Leonard Hull Show. This will be the people s show. They will set the agenda. My political agenda will be the people s agenda.
Hull, a retired high school history teacher and former Dighton School Committee member, became the town s new selectman with a total of 688 votes versus 363 votes for Duczkowski in Saturday s annual town election.
Meanwhile, Goulart, who was retiring from the Board of Selectmen this year because of her husband s death of COVID-19, won a write-in contest for a seat on the Board of Assessors.
Dighton selectman candidates Leonard Hull, Jenn Duczkowski debate tauntongazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tauntongazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DIGHTON Two candidates are vying to fill an open selectmen s seat in the upcoming election a retired teacher who previously served on the D-R school committee and a financial analyst who serves on the Commission on Disability.
Retired teacher Leonard Hull will be facing off against financial analyst Jennifer Duczkowski in the April 10 election to fill the seat being vacated by longtime Selectman Nancy Goulart, who is retiring after the recent loss of her husband to COVID-19.
Jenn Duczkowski
Duczkowski explained her reasons for running in simple terms. It comes down to service. I want to start to give back to my town, she said.