UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): ~~December~~January 1125, ~~2018~~2019

PILGRIM BANCSHARES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Maryland

000-55290

46-5110553

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

(Commission File No.)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

40 South Main Street, Cohasset, Massachusetts		02025
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (781) 383-0541

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 58.0701 ~~Submission~~Other ~~of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders~~Events.

AOn ~~Special~~January ~~Meeting~~24, of2019, ~~Stockholders of~~ Pilgrim Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) ~~was~~and ~~held~~Hometown onFinancial ~~December 11~~Group, ~~2018~~Inc. ~~The~~ ~~matter~~(“Hometown”) ~~listed~~received the final ~~below~~regulatory ~~were~~approval ~~submitted~~necessary to acomplete ~~vote of~~ the ~~stockholders~~merger ~~and~~of the ~~proposals~~Company ~~are~~with ~~described~~and ininto ~~detail~~Hometown in (the ~~proxy~~“Merger”). ~~statement~~The ~~filed with~~parties ~~the~~expect ~~Securities~~to ~~and~~complete ~~Exchange~~the ~~Commission~~Merger on ~~October~~or ~~29,~~about ~~2018. The~~January ~~final~~31, ~~results~~2019, ofsubject to the ~~stockholder~~satisfaction ~~votes~~of ~~are~~customary asclosing ~~follows:~~conditions.

Proposal 1 – Approval of the Merger Agreement and Merger with Hometown Financial Group, MHC and Hometown Financial Group, Inc.

The stockholders approved and adopted the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 25, 2018, by and among Hometown Financial Group, MHC, Hometown Financial Group, Inc. and Pilgrim Bancshares, Inc. (the “merger agreement”), pursuant to which Pilgrim Bancshares will merge with Hometown Financial Group Acquisition Corp., a Maryland corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hometown Financial formed solely to facilitate the merger, with Pilgrim Bancshares as the surviving entity (the “merger”), and immediately thereafter Pilgrim Bancshares will merge with and into Hometown Financial (the “second step merger”), and upon consummation of the merger and the second step merger, Hometown Financial will maintain Pilgrim Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of Pilgrim Bancshares, as a separate stand-alone bank subsidiary of Hometown Financial, as follows:

For	1,686,200
Against	105
Abstain	4,943
Broker non-votes	0

Proposal 2 – Approval of Adjournment of Special Meeting

The proposal to adjourn the special meeting, if necessary, to solicit additional proxies if there were not sufficient votes present at the special meeting in person or by proxy to approve and adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger and the merger, was not considered by stockholders based on the approval of Proposal 1 at the special meeting.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.

	PILGRIM BANCSHARES, INC.
DATE: December 11, 2018	By:	/s/ Francis E. Campbell
DATE: January 25, 2019	By:	/s/ Francis E. Campbell
		Francis E. Campbell
		President and Chief Executive Officer

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