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06/14/2013 07:36 AM EDT - Sunday is Father's Day and we wish all fathers a wonderful day. For those of us in the "baby-boomers" generation, our fathers are aging; many have passed on.   Full Story
 
06/07/2013 07:37 AM EDT - The airwaves are filled this week with news of the $20 million plus spent by the IRS on lavish parties .   Full Story
 
05/31/2013 07:39 AM EDT - There should be few among us unfamiliar with the Gettysburg Address, particularly the following phrase, ".   Full Story
 
05/24/2013 08:08 AM EDT - We're pretty sure that if someone in socalled "tornado alley" reads this column, they will have some choice words to say about northerners who don't know what they're talking about.   Full Story
 
05/17/2013 10:09 AM EDT - By Bob Katzen THE HOUSE AND SENATE. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' votes on three roll calls from prior legislative sessions.   Full Story
 
05/17/2013 07:40 AM EDT - A House amendment that would provide $20 million to public schools was rejected by the house last week.   Full Story
 
05/10/2013 07:36 AM EDT - Who can forget the celebrated moment in 1989 when then-President Ronald Reagan seized on the movement in Germany to unify its two halves separated by the Berlin Wall?   Full Story
 
04/19/2013 08:09 AM EDT - Like 9/11, we will remember where we were when the Boston Marathon was bombed on Patriot's Day. To us, in this land of the free, such an attack is beyond understanding.   Full Story
 
04/12/2013 07:35 AM EDT - We have a recent popular example of an empty chair debate. And many will forever argue who won it - actor/director Clint Eastwood, or the empty chair beside him meant to represent President Barack Obama during the August 2012 Republican National Convention.   Full Story
 
04/05/2013 07:31 AM EDT - Jim Clish, of Townsend, passed away last week. Though many of you might not know him, many others do.   Full Story
 
03/29/2013 08:54 AM EDT - Quite a few people have become caught up in the Jodi Arias trial. Arias is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her lover, Travis Alexander, in his Arizona home.   Full Story
 
03/15/2013 07:33 AM EDT - My first exposure to the TSA was not long after the attacks of Sept. 11. We had traveled to Georgia for Thanksgiving and our baggage was rifled by a person or persons unknown.   Full Story
 
03/01/2013 07:34 AM EST - I read with sadness Joyce Faiola's article "Thoughts on a certain day." It just seemed to beg for an answer.   Full Story
 
02/15/2013 08:07 AM EST - Love is probably the most overused, misunderstood and mysterious word in any language. There may be many types of love, but the real thing, no matter for whom it is felt, has some unmistakable common denominators.   Full Story
 
02/15/2013 07:38 AM EST - Frank Maxant's public bashing of the Ayer American Legion Post may have fit his personal agenda but it was unbecoming of an elected official and a U.   Full Story
 
02/12/2013 02:52 PM EST - Frank Maxant's public bashing of the Ayer Shirley American Legion Post 139 may have fit his personal agenda but it was unbecoming of an elected official and a U.   Full Story
 
02/08/2013 07:37 AM EST - Astronomers have spent a decade observing and photographing the Milky Way's 100 billion stars, which orbit planets very much like ours.   Full Story
 
02/08/2013 07:36 AM EST - The quality of selectmen's meetings in Shirley has been strained. That's both bad and good news. Nobody wants a bobble-headed board nodding in sync, but two-to-one votes on nearly every major issue shouldn't be business as usual, either.   Full Story