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Ok, so you’re Sarah Palin and you hear that your daughter Bristol’s boyfriend/ex-boyfriend/ fiance/ex-fiance Levi Johnston is planning on running for your old job…Mayor of Wasilla, tell me, what the heck goes through your head (if anything). Me? If I was Palin, I’d be thinking…”this pain in the ass is…

The following entry is cross posted from Jack Neary’s own Blog, Shards. So much has been written over the past few days about my friend–our friend, everybody’s friend–former State Rep Ed LeLacheur and his boundless enthusiasm for life and service, that nothing I can contribute here can really add much…

Sixty two years ago today the iconic TV show Candid Camera first aired on ABC. Few people (or at least me anyway) remember that Candid Camera actually began as a radio show called Candid Microphone. In June of 1947 Candid Microphone hit the airwaves with a bang. Its quick success prompted…

Here is an interesting slide show about the town of Tewksbury originally posted by littlewolfmesta

The entry below is crossed posted from local playwright Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I would like to introduce you to Timmy on the right, and Eddie, below. They are very sweet little dogs owned by my brother and my sister-in-law, and they live with all of us in Derry,…

After spilling nearly 127 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP Global claims its renegade well is plugged.  This morning for the first time I logged into BP’s website and viewed the numerous webcams providing live video feeds of the well. If you haven’t checked this out,…

The entry below is crossed posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Eighty-seven years ago yesterday, then-Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting his father, Colonel John Coolidge, in the tiny Vermont village of Plymouth Notch when word arrived that President Warren Harding had died. By the light of a kerosene lamp,…

Tonight on Larry King Live rapper Wyclef Jean will announce his candidacy for the Presidency of Haiti If I can’t take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I’ve been singing about, like equal rights, doesn’t mean anything (Wyclef Jean). Jean was born in Haiti in…

Middlesex Community College is working to help small businesses grow and succeed. Throughout the months of August and September the college is offering four inexpensive courses designed specifically to help the small business owner and his/her employees. And I mean inexpensive… course cost only $29 or $39 and will be…