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If you have a passion for helping the environment and time to spend on a project, the Massachusetts has programs to support ... or to preserve scenic vistas from development or to create sports fields or playgrounds. A counterintuitive benefit of the ... - The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has penalized National Restorations Systems Inc. $19,050 for asbestos violations uncovered at the Boston Common Garage in September 2010. - She was born May 2, 1925 in Medford, Massachusetts, the daughter of James S. Lenox and Ruth Irene (McLean) Lenox and was educated in Medford Schools, obtaining her teaching degree at Lowell State Teachers College in 1947 and later earning her Master's ... - Two Mansfield women are among the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women 2012 class of Unsung Heroines. - New Hampshire State Police say a 23-year-old Massachusetts man has died in a single-vehicle accident in Nashua. - Featuring exclusive tastings, chef meet-and-greets, wine offerings, silent auction and more – all to benefit local breast health services across the Commonwealth! Boston, MA (April 2, 2011) – The Massachusetts Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure ... - an aunt and godmother of missing Gloucester 21/2-year-old Caleigh Harrison. BOSTON (AP) — Police investigating the disappearance of a 21/2-year-old girl from a Rockport beach have filed a report with Massachusetts child welfare authorities of potential ... - The former Massachusetts governor attended Game 4 of the first-round playoff series. He sat near mid-court, about 12 rows back, with his wife and his longtime friend Bob White, the Celtics said. - A sharp increase in the annual town operating budget and the question, both financial and philosophical, of whether to continue participation in the Massachusetts Estuaries Project are the key issues that will come before Chilmark voters at their annual town meeting Monday night. - Under Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts has tried a couple of methods for limiting the government?s exposure to rising health-care costs. First, Patrick forced insurers to stop raising premiums, which led to a predictable train wreck, as insurers started hemorrhaging cash. When a state appeals board overturned Patrick?s decree, he shifted gears, and began going after the prices charged by ... - helping to build the Massachusetts Turnpike and the extension of the Maine Turnpike from Portland north, as well as other projects in New England. He worked for many years as a chef at the Shawmut Inn in Kennebunkport and for Ross Stahl Painting ... - Also, the ice went out of Moosehead Lake (according to Pat Sherman of Greenbush and the Maine Department of ... Wait a minute — that was in Massachusetts in 1855. April 25. The first little reddish-green furls of maple leaves along the driveway. - NATICK and BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ Results Presented at Heart Rhythm Society from ASA Plavix Study Evaluating Boston Scientific Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device Boston Scientific Corporation announces results … - MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- A Massachusetts man was ordered held on bail after allegedly choking a six-year-old boy and pouring hot sauce into the child's mouth. Jorge O. Rivera Jr. was arraigned at Marlborough District Court on Monday over an incident that ... - Otelco Inc. , a wireline telecommunication services provider in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, Vermont and West Virginia, today announced that Time Warner Cable has indicated that it will not renew its existing contract for wholesale network connections provided by Otelco. - --(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolarCity®, a national leader in clean energy services, has opened a new 15,000-square-foot operations center in Marlborough that will bring the area new jobs and help Massachusetts businesses, non-profit organizations and homeowners ... - Caesarstone's Independent Distributors are located in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Arizona and Utah. Caesarstone's premium quartz countertops and surfaces complement any design, from traditional to ... - Don't bet on Mitt Romney winning his home state. Or even trying. "That's not been a topic of discussion," Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden said when asked if the Republican former Massachusetts governor would compete in the heavily Democratic state. - Massachusetts will get $19.8 million as part of a pair of multi-state settlements with Illinois drug company Abbott Laboratories, which agreed to pay a total of $900 million and plead guilty to violating a federal drug law to resolve charges of illegal off-label marketing. The settlements revolve around the company’s promotion of the anti-seizure medication Depakote for off-label uses over a 10 ... - There are actually a few towns in Massachusetts where you can now buy a home for less than six figures.... -
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19 May 2012 Police log for 5-16-12 Pa. State Police Medical condition leads to crash While traveling eastbound on Route 78 in the left lane on May 8, Massachusetts resident Warren Shepard, 45, lost control of his 1998 Jeep Cherokee due to a medical condition and struck the guide rail. Massachusetts resident Pamela Bilodeau, 52, one of two passengers in the vehicle, suffered a broken leg in the accident and was transported to the ...
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19 May 2012 Marlborough, MA Marlborough students participate in anti-bullying event - Abington Mariner This event, put on by the ADL’s “A World of Difference” Institute, brings together more than 1,200 Massachusetts and Vermont middle and high school students and their teachers to identify issues of bullying and cyberbullying that continue to impact ...
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19 May 2012 Holyoke, MA Roxie A. (Sharkey) LaValley, 37 - Newburyport Daily News Barbara was born in Holyoke, MA, on June 14, 1924, the daughter of John F ... After receiving the news about the plane crash of November 17, 1970, which carried the entire football team from Marshall University, Norman decided on Idaho State College.
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19 May 2012 Holyoke, MA Barbara Labouteley, 87 - Newburyport Daily News Barbara was born in Holyoke, MA, on June 14, 1924, the daughter of John F ... After receiving the news about the plane crash of November 17, 1970, which carried the entire football team from Marshall University, Norman decided on Idaho State College.
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19 May 2012 Boston, MA Youkilis Plays Third, Goes 1-for-3 With PawSox Kevin Youkilis took another step towards rejoining the Red Sox on Friday night, playing five innings at third base for Pawtucket.
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19 May 2012 Westminster, MA New friends help Dracut boys get Pedroia autograph - Boston Globe As tickled pinkish-red as 19-year-old Kylie Brough and mom, Kimberly, were to meet Red Sox star Dustin Pedroia and get his autograph during Fenway Park's 100th year Open House celebration on April 19, the Westminster residents couldn't help ...
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19 May 2012 Lowell, MA Tulley shows his 'gritty' side to BC High - ESPN LOWELL, Mass. -– The fire remained within. Matt Tulley leaned against the fence at the top of Lowell High’s dugout, arms outstretched, and gazed out at the BC High players warming up in the outfield at Alumni Field. He was his usual self ...
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19 May 2012 Shelburne Falls, MA Meditation In Prison: 100 Hours Of Silence - Huffington Post With collaboration among Ron Cavanaugh, the Alabama Department of Corrections and a Vipassana center in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, a Vipassana program, based on the 2600-year-old teachings of the Buddha, was brought to Donaldson.
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19 May 2012 Monson, MA Betting on the church HARDWICK - Judith Berg Kohn knows that deceased members of the Gilbertville Trinitarian Congregational Church are probably rolling over in their graves.
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19 May 2012 Boston, MA Senate action revives car bill BOSTON - Massachusetts lawmakers are reviving the debate over whether to require car manufacturers to provide software needed to diagnose car trouble to independent repair shops and vehicle owners, but supporters of the measure also want voters to decide this fall if it doesn't pass.
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19 May 2012 Newburyport, MA Power brokers NEWBURYPORT — One challenge to encouraging solar power projects on a house or small business is overcoming the perception that they are complicated or expensive to install. But volunteers are launching an effort to make solar more accessible to building owners here after Newburyport recently earned a grant and was named a participant in a Solarize Massachusetts program.
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19 May 2012 Holyoke, MA Holyoke boys volleyball edges Sabis, 3-2 and claims South League title - Union-News & Sunday Re Jose Sanchez tallied 10 kills and four blocks as Holyoke claimed the South League Championship with the victory. After being down 8-2 in the fifth set, the Purple Knights rallied to win 15-13 to take the match. "The kids played their hearts out," Holyoke ...
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18 May 2012 Dennis Port, MA From IFAW - Mass Dolphin Strandings Finally End - care2.com I'm writing to thank you once again for your support of IFAW's marine mammal rescue work, and to give you a final update on the recent mass strandings on Cape Cod, MA. I'm happy and relieved to say that it appears the mass dolphin strandings that kept our ...
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18 May 2012 Olympia woman to log 100th marathon this weekend - Tacoma News Tribune On May 5, she ran the Fort Steilacoom Trail Marathon in 5 hours ... Massachusetts -- as well as British Columbia. She’s also an ultramarathoner, a runner who runs in races longer than the 26.2-mile marathons. She says she’s able to recover ...
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18 May 2012 Monson, MA Strikeforce 'Barnett vs Cormier' fight card: Josh Barnett vs Daniel Cormier preview - MMA Daniel Cormier emerged from prospect to powerhouse in 2011, defeating veteran Jeff Monson and then obliterating top 10 ranked heavyweight Antonio Silva via first round knockout to literally punch his ticket to the tournament finals. Cormier ...
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18 May 2012 Gloucester's Lucia Amero saluted as unsung heroine Short news items having to do with Gloucester and its people
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18 May 2012 Worcester, MA Worcester steps up police presence following unsolved homicides - NECN (NECN: Melissa Toupin, Worcester, Mass.) - Police say they are stepping up their response to a recent spate of violence in the central Massachusetts city, including two unsolved homicides last weekend. The Worcester police chief said the so called ...
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18 May 2012 Missing man found after search Police say a Whitman man reported missing by his family after wandering off in nearby woods was found Friday morning suffering from hypothermia.
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18 May 2012 Housatonic, MA Robert Miller: Keeping track of natural resources - Danbury News-Times Its land drains into five river systems -- the Housatonic, the Hudson ... a geologic formation dominated by bedrock marble, that runs from Massachusetts down the western edge of the state. That creates limestone soils that support different plant species.
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18 May 2012 'Nothing to hide': Caleigh's mom, facing neglect probe, speaks out "It's going to sound strange," says Allison Hammond, "but I almost welcome an investigation because now they can see we have nothing to hide. We're a good family that a bad thing happened to, and I think that's what the investigation will find."
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18 May 2012 Lowell, MA Underemployed UMass-Lowell graduate offers to return degree for refund - Union-News & Sunday Re In fact, she was so filled with optimism she left the University of Massachusetts at Lowell two weeks before graduation, after she had banked her final credit. But Colvertino became rapidly disenchanted when she realized her bachelor of arts ...
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18 May 2012 MMA cadet charged after car injures three A Massachusetts Maritime Academy junior was arrested early this morning after he allegedly struck three people on Academy Drive in Bourne while returning from a Main Street bar, the school said.Max Yerger, 21, of Westerly, R.I., pleaded not guilty in Falmouth District Court today to charges of operating under the influence of liquor causing serious bodily injury, negligent operation, and leaving ...
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18 May 2012 Medway, MA Medway woman named state’s Lion of the Year Dawn Rice-Norton is not one to anticipate praise for her good deeds. So when she was named the 2011-2012 Lion of the Year for all of Massachusetts, she was caught off guard. Rice-Norton received her award earlier this month at the Lion State Convention in Sturbridge in front of more than 500 other Lions Club members.
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18 May 2012 Marlborough, MA Marlborough job fair scheduled for June 13 - MetroWest Daily News More than two dozen companies will recruit for more than 100 open positions at the “Marlborough Works!” Job Fair on Wednesday, June 13. The event runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott, 75 Felton St., Marlborough. The free event ...
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18 May 2012 Hanscom Afb, MA Honorees of the 44th Annual Veterans Parade (Part 1) - Abington Mariner In 2011, Bill was appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to its eyewitness ... member of the Army Reserve for seven years assigned to the Medical Unit at Hanscom AFB.  She participated in England in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital emergency ...
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18 May 2012 Hamilton, MA Marlborough's Post Road Art Center holding Animal Show The Post Road Art Center announces the winners of the Animal Show 2012.
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18 May 2012 Dennis Port, MA MMA student accused of drunken driving hit and run - msnbc.com BOURNE, Mass. (WHDH) -- An accident on Cape Cod sent cadets from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy to the hospital Thursday night. Officers said cadets from the academy were returning to campus after celebrating the end of the school year Thursday night ...
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18 May 2012 Lynn, MA Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ by Ben Fountain - New York Times The Billy Lynn of the title is a member of the Army’s Bravo Company ... “It’s like giving a pig a Rolex, ma’am, he’s got no appreciation for the finer things in life.” The lady, the reader’s embedded conscience and representative ...
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18 May 2012 Analysis: Three states stand out in 2012 presidential election - Miami Herald Romney's first TV ad of the general election campaign, which debuts Friday, will air in four states, including Ohio, Virginia and Iowa. (Notably, it repeats his pledge to "end Obamacare," the law based on his Massachusetts model). The Romney ...
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18 May 2012 Amesbury, MA Dr. Josiah Bartlett discovered Peruvian bark to be a cure for throat distemper - Examiner The fifth child and fourth son of Amesbury, Massachusetts shoemaker Stephen Bartlett and his wife Hannah-Mary, Josiah Bartlett was born November 21, 1729. While in school, Josiah studied a fair amount of Greek and built a strong foundation in Latin.
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18 May 2012 Linwood, MA Dr. Ekkehard Kasper Selected For Patients' Choice Award 2011 - YAHOO! For more information, search The Registry at http://www.americanregistry.com. Dr. Andrea Bloch of Linwood, NJ, has been ranked among the top physicians in the … Full Story »Dr. Andrea Bloch Selected For Patients' Choice Award 2011
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18 May 2012 Lowell, MA Three-alarm blaze causes $500,000 in damage at UMass Lowell’s Perry Hall - Boston Globe A three-alarm fire caused extensive damage to the upper floors of an old University of Massachusetts Lowell academic building this morning, city fire officials said today. The fire began around 8 a.m. in a room on the fourth floor of Perry Hall ...
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18 May 2012 Lynn, MA ILCNSCA celebrates challenges and triumphs at breakfast - Abington Mariner She lived in a single room above a YMCA in Lynn, barely scraping by ... spoke to the struggles and victories achieved every day by the disabled in Massachusetts and their advocates. Perhaps no speaker more clearly articulated this than Christine Griffin ...
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18 May 2012 Duxbury, MA All-American lacrosse rosters announced - ESPN Several Massachusetts-based lacrosse players, along with host New England talent, were named to the Under Armour All-American game's boys' and girls' rosters on Thursday. Duxbury defender Max Randall and Beverly's Will Ryan, goaltender at Avon ...
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18 May 2012 Charlton, MA DUI killer's 9- to 12-year sentence upheld - Worcester Telegram & Gazette WORCESTER — The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld a sentence against a man, who 14 years ago, was convicted of killing a man and severely injuring members of the man’s family in a drunken driving crash on Route 20 in Charlton.
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18 May 2012 Caesarstone USA Teams Up With Luxe Interiors + Design to "Set the Mood" - Market Wire Caesarstone's Independent Distributors are located in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Arizona and Utah. Caesarstone's premium quartz countertops and surfaces complement any design, from traditional to ...
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18 May 2012 Owner of Gary RailCats and Schaumburg Boomers Becomes Partner in Martha's Vineyard Franchise - Located in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, Salvi joins other franchise owners, including well known Hollywood actor Bill Murray, Sharks President Hannah Schley, and Van Schley, one of the founding members of modern independent baseball, as the Sharks enter ...
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18 May 2012 Dennis Port, MA Cape Cod burial planned for Mary Kennedy - Cape Cod Times Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Mary was RFK Jr.'s second wife ... Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik in New York City, Matt Sedensky. Material from the Cape Cod Times was used in this story.
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18 May 2012 Cambridge, MA Central Square building sells for $40.1m L&B Realty Advisors LLC has purchased an office-and-retail building in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge for $40.1 million, said a broker involved in the transaction. The three-story building at 625 Massachusetts Ave. is fully occupied by such tenants as Harvard College, TD Bank, Walgreen’s, and Harmonix Music Systems, said the broker, Jones Lang LaSalle. The seller is the Samuels ...
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18 May 2012 Speaker Robert DeLeo to Mark Zuckerberg: Open a Facebook office in Massachusetts Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo is urging Facebook to consider opening an office in the Bay State, where the social media company has its roots. DeLeo made his plea in an open letter to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who cofounded Facebook in a Harvard University dorm room in 2004. Zuckerberg later moved the company to California, where Facebook became a phenomenon. DeLeo’s letter ...
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18 May 2012 Wellesley, MA Massachusetts health insurers report their operating earnings dropped in first quarter After registering higher earnings in 2011, the state’s nonprofit health insurers posted falling operating income -- and in two cases, operating losses -- for the first quarter as they handled more medical claims. The early months of the year typically bring more claims. People delay elective procedures until after the holidays and insurance companies have to make payments for supplemental ...
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18 May 2012 Regulators reject FAIR Plan proposal to hike rates Massachusetts insurance regulators Friday rejected a proposed 7.2 percent rate hike by the FAIR Plan, the state’s home insurer of last resort. The FAIR Plan had proposed raising home and condo insurance rates by 6.7 percent on the Cape and the Islands and 9.9 percent in several other areas, including New Bedford, Worcester, and Springfield. The plan, currently covers 201,150 householders who are ...
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18 May 2012 Bill aimed at preventing home foreclosures in Massachusetts moves forward in Legislature A bill meant to stop “unnecessary” foreclosures in Massachusetts cleared its first major legislative hurdle Wednesday when it gained approval from the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Financial Services. The bill, filed by Attorney General Martha Coakley, would require banks to analyze certain troubled mortgage loans and offer borrowers modifications when it makes more financial sense than ...
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18 May 2012 Massachusetts to receive $19.8 million as part of multi-state settlements with Abbott Laboratories Massachusetts will get $19.8 million as part of a pair of multi-state settlements with Illinois drug company Abbott Laboratories, which agreed to pay a total of $900 million and plead guilty to violating a federal drug law to resolve charges of illegal off-label marketing. The settlements revolve around the company’s promotion of the anti-seizure medication Depakote for off-label uses over a 10 ...
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18 May 2012 Halifax, MA PUBLIC HEALTH: No bold, old health agents - Abington Mariner Cathleen Drinan is the health agent for Halifax. She is trying to stay out of harm’s way at 781-293-6768 or cdrinan@town.halifax.ma.us.
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18 May 2012 Swampscott, MA Preparations growing for Swampscott's farmers market - Abington Mariner Rain or shine, the farmers market will feature a wide variety of produce, meats, fish, breads, flowers and crafts from farmers, food producers, and artisans from around Massachusetts and nearby New England states. Anchoring the market, Swampscott will have ...
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18 May 2012 East Taunton, MA Taunton, Mashpee tribe ink $13 million deal - Cape Cod Times With the economic downturn, the infrastructure agreement proved too rich for the tribe, which set its sights elsewhere in Southeastern Massachusetts before ... of money will pay for the impact to East Taunton. Frank LaGace said he fears that ...
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18 May 2012 Norwood, MA Boston Breakers brace for FC Indiana in sold-out home opener - boxscorenews.com NORWOOD, MA. - Coming off a 3-0 victory in their WPSL Elite season opener last Thursday, the Breakers look to make it two in a row as they host FC Indiana Friday night (7 p.m.) in their home opener at Dilboy Stadium in Somerville, Mass. Goals by rookies ...
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18 May 2012 East Bridgewater, MA East Bridgewater man hits lottery for $4 million - Patriot Ledger Joseph Walls of East Bridgewater claimed a top prize Thursday in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s $10 instant game $5,000 A Week For Life. He is the second lucky player to win a $5,000 a week for life prize since the game debuted on Feb. 21. Walls ...
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18 May 2012 New Town, MA Prop. 2-1/2 override awaits voters tomorrow - Worcester Telegram & Gazette LUNENBURG — A controversial $2.2 million Proposition 2-1/2 request — rather than the election of new town officers — is the main ... to 5 p.m. at T.C. Passios Elementary School, 1025 Massachusetts Ave. (Route 2A.) The override, which ...
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18 May 2012 Cambridge, MA MIT names provost new president MIT names provost new president Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:26 a.m., Wednesday, May 16, 2012 (AP) — MIT provost L. Rafael Reif, an internationally recognized electrical engineer who learned to speak English after coming to the U.S. for graduate school from his native ...
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18 May 2012 New Salem, MA School Lunch Menus for the week of May 20 - Evening Sun LITTLESTOWN - (RA, MA & Alloway Creek Int.) Monday ... salad greens, fruit. SPRING GROVE - (New Salem, Paradise & SGE) Monday: chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes & gravy, corn, fruit or juice; Tuesday: mini school sub, chips, peas & carrots ...
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18 May 2012 East Bridgewater, MA COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM PROFILE: Meet Zack McCaffrey - Abington Mariner He is working in a co-op placement with Thorndike Corporation of East Bridgewater, a leading design and precision ... at 508-224-5073 or kcolozzi@plymouth.k12.ma.us.
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18 May 2012 West Roxbury, MA Some design group members express frustration at Casey Overpass meeting After a contentious decision by the Massachusetts Department of Development to replace the Casey Overpass with an at-grade thoroughfare, the project’s community Design Advisory Group is making steady progress, despite continued discontent among some group members.
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18 May 2012 Warwick, MA Unemployed help each other to find jobs A peer program in West Warwick is helping some people …
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18 May 2012 Readville, MA BRA selects consultant for Fairmount transit line iniatitive - Boston Globe The 9.2 mile Fairmount Line is part of the MBTA’s commuter rail system and runs from South Station to the Readville section of Hyde Park. In addition to its work shaping strategies for the line, the Cecil Group will also help identify two additional ...
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18 May 2012 Winchester, MA Three-alarm blaze in Winchester home brought under control - Boston Globe A three-alarm fire heavily damaged a 100-year-old, $1 million Winchester home early this morning, officials said. Firefighters said the blaze broke out at the Copley Street home about 5:15 a.m. A neighbor saw the flames and started banging on a ...
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18 May 2012 Cambridge, MA Cambridge office/retail buiding sells for $40M - The Business Journal Samuels Property Group has purchased 625 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, Mass. for $40.1 million ... TD Bank (NYSE: BNK), Boston Sports Club and Harmonix Music System. Built in 1929, the property was renovated in 2000. The three-story, plus lower level ...
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18 May 2012 Amherst Rotary Community Fair runs through Saturday, kicks off western Massachusetts' summer c AMHERST-- The Rotary Club's annual community fair officially ... features rides by New Hampshire-based Fanelli Amusements -- a mainstay of such events around New England and New York. The company's founder, John J. Fanelli, sold popcorn at ...
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18 May 2012 Williamsburg, MA Legislators, experts laud 125th anniversary of Southwestern Va. institute Legislators, experts laud 125th anniversary of Southwestern Va. institute
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18 May 2012 Boston, MA Mass. Maritime cadet arrested after allegedly striking three pedestrians when driving from Bourne b A Massachusetts Maritime Academy junior was arrested early this morning after he allegedly struck three people on Academy Drive in Bourne while returning from a Main Street bar, the school said.
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18 May 2012 Hanscom Afb, MA Legislation Drives Consumers Toward Credit Union Debit Card Rewards Programs - Credit Unions Online Hanscom Federal Credit Union ($956 million, Hanscom AFB, MA) uses its free checking, along with flexible debit rewards program to reel in new members. “We don’t have a lot of competition in terms of both free checking and debit card rewards ...
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18 May 2012 Fitch Rates Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust Pool Program's $226.7MM Revs 'AAA Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AAA' rating to the following Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust Pool Program's series state revolving fund program bonds:
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18 May 2012 News Minute: Latest Massachusetts news, sports, business and entertainment The two branches of Mary Richardson Kennedy's family are planning separate memorial services following her suicide and a contested divorce with husband Robert Kennedy Jr. There are signs that the relationship between the...
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18 May 2012 Southborough, MA Opera Solutions Acquires Procurement Analytics Tools and Services from BIQ and Lexington Analytics In combination, the software tools from BIQ, based in Southborough, MA. and the services marketed by Lexington Analytics of Lexington, MA. are designed to help organizations to not only achieve savings on current spending, but also to monitor ...
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18 May 2012 South Yarmouth, MA Remembering longtime basketball coach Dick Dukeshire - Northeastern Huskies He was 78 and had lived for many years in Framingham and South Yarmouth. Only 23 when he became ... in Lake Sebago before breakfast at 7.'' An All-Western Massachusetts captain of three sports at Northampton High School, Mr. Dukeshire graduated ...
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18 May 2012 Topsfield, MA Garden City officially goes green Beverly can now officially call itself a “Green Community.” Not because of the green color seen in parks and on lawns across the Garden City, but because of the city’s environment and energy conscious initiatives.
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18 May 2012 Jamaica Plain, MA May Spring Birding Trips and Nature Programs at - Patch What does this mean to our forests?  What are the ripple effects towards other wildlife? Walks in Massachusetts: John Galluzzo, the Adult Education and Citizen Science Coordinator for Mass Audubon’s South Shore Sanctuaries, will speak on his recent book ...
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18 May 2012 Norwood, MA Town Meeting: What Keeps Me Up at Night... The Schools - Patch I won’t apologize for standing up and attempting to make our schools better. Norwood is ranked 150 out of 332 districts in Massachusetts. Our MCAS scores are nothing to brag about. The Balch School is the worst ranked, while The Callahan ...
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18 May 2012 Hatfield, MA Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend 2012 Trip Features Exclusive Artifact Spotlight Presentatio Hall of Fame Induction Weekend guests will experience an insider’s look at baseball history. Hatfield, MA (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 Sports Travel and Tours’ Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend guests will experience an insider’s look at baseball ...
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18 May 2012 South Hamilton, MA Hamilton's Black Cow closes for renovations - Abington Mariner Anyone stopping by for a meal at The Black Cow Tap & Grill in South Hamilton may have been surprised to see the windows blacked over and the words “Closed for Renovations” written across the storefronts. The Bay Road eatery, which has been a staple in ...
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18 May 2012 Fitch Rates Massachusetts' $350MM GO Bonds 'AA+'; Outlook Stable Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA+' rating to the following Commonwealth of Massachusetts general obligation bonds:
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18 May 2012 Norwood, MA Movie review: ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’ is as expected - Daily News Transcript Slavishly adhering to its title, the ensemble comedy “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is rife with every pregnancy trope imaginable. Yup, there’s everything from cankles and flatulence to hemorrhoids and back acne – just to name a few. Dire ...
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18 May 2012 Dennis Port, MA Data in on the Cape Cod Class of 2011 - Cape Cod Today By way of comparison of scale, the two largest high schools in Massachusetts - Brockton's 4,300 student body and Lowell's approximately 4,000 students - had a combined 2011 senior class just slightly smaller than all of Cape Cod's 2011 potential graduates.
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18 May 2012 Waban, MA Newton Police begin click it or ticket campaign - Abington Mariner Newton Police will be on the lookout for seatbelt use during the next three weeks. With a grant from the Massachusetts Highway Department, police kicked off the click it or ticket campaign on May 14. It’ll end on June 3. Police will be on the lookout for ...
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    Connecticut State Police say one person has died in a motor vehicle accident on I 84 early this morning. The vehicle lost control traveling east bound into the right shoulder, striking a light pole then rolling  over.  Police say the...
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