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Entire Massachusetts Farms Were Cleared Out To Make Way For This Military Base
In 1917, the Army bought land from 112 different owners in just a short stretch of time. That added up to 230 parcels and roughly 5,000 acres, including fine farmland along the Nashua River. Then came the hammers. Crews built an average of 10.4 new buildings every single day, which...
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For some celebrants, the ‘new beginnings’ of Diwali ring particularly true this year
Thousands of candles lit up the Dartmouth Green for Diwali on Saturday, Nov. 7. On one of the darkest weekends of the year, a festive air in Hanover fended off the gloom. Around 200 community members gathered for an evening of Diwali festivities organized by Dartmouth’s Hindu student group, Shanti, on Saturday.
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Chris Sweeney Takes Over as Temporary Library Director
The Rodgers Memorial Library Board of Trustees officially welcomed Chris Sweeney to his first meeting as Interim Director on October 21, following the official retirement of former Director Linda Pilla on September 25. “Chris Sweeney has been a long-time employee of the library. She’s more than capable of standing in...
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Boston’s famous reject has died
The death has been made known of Danny Katzen, a hornist who is said to have auditioned 48 times for the second horn position in the Boston Symphony Orchestra before finally being given the job. Danny entered the orchestra in 1979 and played for 29 years, retiring in 2008. He performed in Leonard Bernstein’s final lifetime concert at Tanglewood and can also be heard on most of the Boston Pops’ celebrated recordings, as well as on the John Williams soundtrack of Schindler’s List.
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At 9, He Was Banned From Delta for Pulling a Prank. Now He’s the Voice of Boston’s Logan Airport
Somewhere over the Eastern Seaboard in the early 1990s, a 9-year-old boy flying alone discovered the flight attendant call button. He pressed it. A flight attendant appeared. He switched the light off. He pressed it again. “I did it probably like 15 times,” Chris Donisi tells TODAY.com. When the plane...
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The Marcia Ann Gillespie I Remember: A 60-Year Friendship Forged at the Dawn of Two Journalism Careers
From the day we met in 1966, we were two young Black women finding our way in journalism. We celebrated each other’s successes, supported each other through challenges and remained close friends for the next 60 years. Marcia Ann Gillespie and I first met in 1966 at Time-Life Books,...
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Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain Seeks New Owner as Landlord Plans to Double Rent for the Property
The Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain could close next year because the building owner is demanding a rent increase, unless a new owner buys the venue. “I'm hoping to have somebody else take it over,” said Jay Balerna, who started managing the live music venue with his brother, David, in 1987, according to The Boston Globe. Balerna has owned the property since buying his brother out in 2011.
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Tiffany McCasland Braves Shark Tank: Investors Bite on “The Chair Blanket”
Like many Boston College students, Tiffany McCasland, BC ’02, spent her time on the Heights looking for internships and preparing for a career in communications. McCasland never imagined that more than two decades later, she would be on national television pitching a product she helped develop to a panel of investors.
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WRBB Radio’s latest set shows off up-and-coming indie rock at AfterHours
WRBB, Northeastern’s student-run radio station, hosted its latest event Oct. 8, held at AfterHours in Curry Student Center and brought together four underground rock bands. The show was “a noise-rock, shoegaze kind of show” that brings an audience together to form “a community through music,” said Caden Garza, WRBB’s head of events.