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Teacher makes the grade with green lessons

The environmentally friendly "green" movement isn't talked about enough in preschool and elementary-school classrooms, according to Leominster resident Liz Cali.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Providence Journal

Mobster St. Laurent hospitalized; delay sought in murder case

The lawyer for Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr., who is accused of trying to recruit fellow inmates to kill a Patriarca crime family rival, has moved for a delay in the case, saying St.

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Boston.com

Motley mob's cheesy end

It used to be when the wiseguys who run the Mafia from Federal Hill in Providence decided to replace personnel at their branch office in the North End of Boston, somebody would end up dead.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Pepperell Free Press

Plow Shop Pond contamination tests are moving slowly

Rust-colored sediment and putrid-looking growth on submerged branches in the 30-acre Plow Shop Pond's Red Cove do not invite wading, fishing or even foot-dipping. It's the Army's job to determine if its past activities present risk to either humans or the ecology.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Lowell Sun

Report: Madoff could do time at Devens

The Boston Herald is reporting in Monday's editions that experts are saying there's a good chance Bernard Madoff will do his time at Devens federal prison hospital.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Groton joins Army Community Covenant

Nathan Buckley knows the word "comrades" takes on new meaning when fighting in a war zone.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

WMC TV

Lady Rebel Golf Falls in U.S. Women's Publinx

Ole Miss Women's Golfer Sara Grantham is out of the U.S. Women's Publinks Tournament, but she put up a heck of a fight.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Cape Cod Times

Marine Bugle Corps will perform tomorrow

You know it's summer when the U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps performs its annual Battle Color Ceremony and concert at Eldredge Park, Route 28 and Eldredge Park Way.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

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The Bay State's Billion-Dollar Man

The news from Detroit can't get much worse. And unemployment rates are likely to climb ever higher.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

Hattiesburg American

Things don't change in military

As I see in the paper about the deployment of troops from Camp Shelby, it reminds me of my own military experience.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Pepperell Free Press

Ayer sinks Vicksburg Square plan

Residents at Monday night's special Town Meeting voted nearly unanimously to support amending zoning requirements for the Vicksburg Square area of the former Fort Devens.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Inside Opinions

Welcome to the Bay State, Judge Kent

Massachusetts gets a dubious distinction today -- it becomes the new home of the first federal judge to go to prison since 1991.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Judge Kent to enter Massachusetts prison Monday

U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent holds his wife's hand as she walks away from the Bob Casey Federal Court House after being sentenced 33 months behind bars.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Pepperell Free Press

Devens traffic increase sparks

On May 14, the Joint Boards of Selectmen expressed its concerns regarding increased local road truck traffic from Devens, particularly along the Barnum Road, Route 111, Route 2A rotary at the entrances of Ayer and Harvard.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Lowell Sun

For Chelmsford vet, a weekend of milestones

Walter Hedlund turned 88 yesterday, and no one was more surprised than he. The day before Hedlund turned 23, he was one of thousands of American GIs, working the sands of Omaha Beach, on D-Day. There was no time for cake, nor a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday" from his brethren.

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Tue Jun 09, 2009

Lowell Sun

Ayer sinks housing plan at Devens after Harvard and Shirley approve it

The town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square to allow for residential uses is Ayer.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

Small businesses air complaints

David Glispin, founder and president of Sunshine Sign in North Grafton, wondered whether there could be a fast-tracked permitting program, similar to projects that have been pushed through in Worcester and Devens, for smaller businesses.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

Boston.com

'Super' vote on Devens

Residents of the three towns that host the Fort Devens property are to vote tomorrow night on the fate of Vicksburg Square, a cluster of historic buildings in the heart of the former Army base.

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Thu Jun 04, 2009

Newsday.com

LI developer charged with mortgage fraud scheme

A wealthy Glen Head developer who is already serving an 8-year sentence for his role in a 2007 congressional corruption scandal was charged Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn with masterminding a $90-million mortgage scam.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

'I remember when...'

Most notably, the rezoning proposal would permit multifamily uses for the historic buildings, along with small-scale retail development to service the future homesteaders.

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