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Tewksbury’s State House delegation at the School Committee meeting – Rep Paul Adams (R-Andover), Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover), Rep Jim Miceli (D-Wilmington) While attending the Tewksbury School Committee meeting last night, the state house delegation led by State Senator Barry Finegold put the brakes on the notion of Tewksbury getting an…
Read More »The other day I posted a story about the super-sized retailer Walmart and plans for a super-sized Walmart box-store for the Civil War Wilderness Battlefield area in Virginia. That proposal had preservationists and developers at loggerheads. Read my January 23, 2011 post here. The Civil War Trust website has an article today announcing – much…
Read More »As the Sesquicentennial remembrance of the American Civil War begins, battles continue for ground considered sacred by many but just land and areas ripe for commercial development by others. Back in July we blogged about the plans for a new casino – too close for some to the blood-soiled battlefields…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Good news coming out of this morning’s speech by Deval Patrick to the Mass. Municipal Association. He will be filing legislation to require cities and towns to provide public employee health insurance either by joining…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us today that on this day – January 21, 1861 – the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment was organized. Of note – this force was composed of men from neighboring cities in the Merrimack Valley – textile workers from Lowell and Lawrence. Later in April – in the city of Baltimore the…
Read More »John Fitzgeral Kennedy of Massachusetts – 35th President of the United States – January 20, 1961 – delivering his Inaugural Address at the US Capitol. Caroline Kennedy and one hundred members of the Kennedy family have gathered in Washington, D.C. today to celebrate and remember the 50th anniversary of her…
Read More »I’m an occasional watcher of the food-focused networks – especially the Cake Boss, Cupcake Wars with an episode or two of Iron Chef or Worst Chefs thrown-in for good measure. Really though – I’m no foodie – yet I do enjoy local restaurant fare from LaBoniche, Cobblestones and Cavaleiro’s to the comfort…
Read More »R. Sargent Shriver – Peace Corps Director, “architect” of the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty dies at 95. Bono, the Irish lead singer of the band U2 and a co-founder of the advocacy group ONE and (Product)RED, is a a regular contributing columnist for The New York Times. Today in his…
Read More »On this day January 20, 1961 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts was sworn-in as the 35th President of the United States. On January 20, 1961, on the newly renovated east front of the United States Capitol, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the…
Read More »The City of Lawrence Fire department has been awarded a $6.6 million grant of Homeland Security funds to rehire laid-off firefighters and perhaps add some new firefighter positions. The announcement was made this evening by US Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas. From the Eagle-Tribune: The Lawrence Fire…
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