SCITUATE — In this trio of longtime Scituate friends, everybody has a job to do. For Lisa Julian, it's finding and turning scrap wood into nautically-inspired frames for a piece of glass. Ree Martin ...

If you’re anything like me, you love everything to do with the beach. The thing I love the most is beachcombing and collecting natural treasures that the ocean has unexpectedly swept onto the coast.

Some believe they are mermaids — half woman, half fish — fairies of the sea. The Greek god Neptune, the controller of winds and storms, ruled the sea in tales of old. Mermaids were his maidens. If a ...