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Swamp Locks

Two views of the Swamp Locks from Tony Sampas. The Swamp Locks are on the Pawtucket Canal along Dutton Street, midway between the intersections with Fletcher and Broadway. Together with the Guard Locks further up Broadway and the Lower Locks outside the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, the Swamp…

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Sunrise, sunset

This coming Wednesday is the shortest day of the year daylight-wise, so I was surprised last week when it seemed that the days were getting longer. Someone more science-minded than me explained that it wasn’t just my imagination. While the total amount of daylight continues to diminish until Wednesday, sunset…

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Battle of the Bulge – December 16, 1944

Sixty-seven years ago today, early in the morning of December 16, 1944, a half million German soldiers achieved complete surprise by attacking the thinly held American lines along the Belgium-Luxembourg border. By the time it was over weeks later, 80,000 American soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured. In his…

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Flags at half-staff today

Governor Patrick has ordered that the flags of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that fly over public buildings be lowered to half-staff today in honor of Firefighter Jon D. Davies of the Worcester Fire Department, who died in the line of duty on Thursday, December 8, 2011.

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