The name Scituate Massachusetts is derived from "satuit", the Wampanoag term for cold brook, which refers to a brook that runs to the inner harbor of the town.
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10 Facts About Scituate Massachusetts
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Scituate Massachusetts used to be the site of international broadcasting radio station WNYW, which broadcast on the shortwave bands in the late 1960s.
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Scituate Massachusetts is considered a South Shore community, located just south of the mouth of greater Boston Harbor.
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Scituate Massachusetts has five public beaches: Minot, Sand Hills, Egypt, Peggotty, and Humarock.
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Scituate Massachusetts Harbor is used mostly by pleasure boaters and fishermen.
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Scituate Massachusetts will replace Jim Cantwell, who resigned to take a job with Ed Markey.
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Scituate Massachusetts is governed on the local level by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a town administrator and a board of selectmen.
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The Scituate Massachusetts Town Library is located near Scituate Massachusetts Center, and is a member of the Old Colony Library Network .
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In 2002, Scituate Massachusetts voters adopted the Community Preservation Act for the acquisition, preservation, restoration or creation of open space, historical purposes, land for recreational use and the creation and support of community housing.
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Scituate Massachusetts is mentioned as a good fishing spot in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, The Village Uncle.
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