Fort Devens News

HARVARD/BOSTON -- At Harvard's Veterans Day services last month, Peter Johnston told the gathering that he and his brother, Paul "PJ" Johnston, sitting in the front row before him, had regularly tried to sneak a peek at the Boston Duck Tour boats.

Fort Devens and its neighbors in Lancaster have reached a truce over a fence being installed around the military base's perimeter.

In February 1951, right after his 17th birthday on Feb. 10, Earl Robishaw, now 75, of Cushing was at Rockland High School in Mr.

"Today is our day. We are alive," said Harvard Veterans Services Agent Dennis Lyddy at Veterans Day ceremonies in the Hapgood Memorial Library.

In 1942, most girls Elgy Solomonides Toury knew were married. And the ones that weren't were planning weddings.

In a departure from the agenda, the selectmen began their Nov. 2 meeting with a testimonial to longtime resident and decorated WWII veteran John Hebert, who died Nov.

In the winter of 1778, Town Meeting voted to "supply the families of the continental soldiers of this town." In 1946, the entire town gathered to welcome veterans of World War II home with a daylong celebration and dinner.

Did you know that Newburyport had a beneficial association with the Civilian Conservation Corps during The Great Depression? People were out of work, some families were suffering greatly, and many had reached a point of losing hope.

Pepperell could soon join Ayer, Harvard, Lancaster, Shirley and Groton, in signing the Army Community Covenant.

Dave Carden has led a colorful life. So when someone suggested he package the stories into a book, he did just that.

This September was the first in more than 45 years that Lowell children were not returning to the Rogers School on Highland Avenue.

Following their mid-August trip to Nova Scotia, three members of the Devens Enterprise Commission and three staff members recounted their North-of-the-boarder experience with Canadian counterparts who are also in the midst of redeveloping a former military base.

Edward M. Kennedy leaves behind an enormous legacy of championing social justice for the nation.

To the strains of "Here I Am Lord," sung by soloist Claire Garrity Neas, the funeral service for Manuel "Manny" Velez began last Thursday morning at St.

A son of Inarajan is the region's latest casualty in the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

The flag at Town Hall flies at half staff in honor of Ayer's Veterans Agent Manuel "Manny" Velez, who died last Thursday in Ayer at the age of 77.

Dennis Maher spent 19 years in prison for two rapes and a sexual assault before being proved innocent by DNA evidence.

Dennis Maher spent 19 years in prison for two rapes and a sexual assault before being proved innocent by DNA evidence.

By Tom Sharpe Milt Sternberg finally got his class ring back a ' 46 years after he lost it in Massachusetts, 44 years after it was found on a beach in Japan and nearly a year after it was rediscovered in a Texas house damaged by Hurricane Ike.

Fresh from an Army Community Covenant meeting at Fort Devens July 1, Veterans Agent Joseph Mazzola brought particulars of the initiative before selectmen as the town considers signing on.