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8 hrs ago | Pepperell Free Press

Fort Devens Museum preps for new home at Lane Hall

Fort Devens Museum President Bert Tompkins announced on June 24 that the museum could be located in a new permanent home of its own within months.

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12 hrs ago | Lowell Sun

Changing of the guard

Command of U.S. Army Garrison Fort Devens changed hands yesterday morning as Lt.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

Change of command at Devens

As Lt. Col. Warren F. Bacote assumed command of the U.S. Army Garrison - Fort Devens yesterday, he spoke of his gratitude for his family, fellow soldiers and predecessor.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Longsjo buddy making trip for race

Everett "Ev" Cassagneres was a young soldier back from the front lines of Korea with two Purple Hearts in 1952 when he met a fledgling bicyclist named Art Longsjo.

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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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Mon Jun 29, 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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Sat Jun 27, 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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Thu Jun 25, 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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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Boston Herald

Dad keeps sona s last note close to his heart

"It's just scribbling," he said. "But it's absolutely priceless to me now." It was left for him Thursday night by his son Patrick, hours before the 21-year-old Marine veteran, who returned from Iraq two months ago, joined his buddies for a midnight swim that ended with his death in a Quincy quarry.

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Sun Jun 21, 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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Wed Jun 17, 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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Fri Jun 12, 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 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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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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Sun May 31, 2009

Shirley Oracle

They 'paid dearly'

Memorial Day is a day set aside to "pay tribute to the brave men and women who gave their lives" for America's most cherished values and ideals, said Sgt.

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Fri May 29, 2009

Recent EPA Catalog Records

Arsenic Fate And Transport In Red Cove, Fort Devens

A field investigation was conducted to evaluate the impact of a discharging arsenic plume on sediment contamination in a cove within Plow Shop Pond adjacent to Shepley's Hill Landfill at the Fort Devens Superfund Site in Massachusetts.

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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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Sun May 24, 2009

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Shop Talk: Q&A with James O'Brien, Chairman of the Board at Worcester Center for the Performing Arts

James O'Brien, 61, a partner with Worcester's Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting law firm, has been involved in the city's community life for more than 30 years.

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