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Mount Tom memorial marks 75th anniversary of deadly B-17 crash in Holyoke MassLive.com 15 hrs ago © Don Treeger | dtreeger/@repub.com Jesus Pereira is Holyokes director of veterans services. The grainy, black-and-white news reel footage shows the wreckage of a B-17 Flying Fortress in bits and pieces. Clothing and other personal belongings of those aboard can be seen strewn across the rocky, wooded mountainside. A mighty workhorse of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ bomber force in World War II, ...

Columnist Jim Cahillane: U.S. Air Force blues "> "> "> Published: 7/1/2021 7:29:18 PM In his new book, “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell goes into great detail about World War II’s Norden bombsight. As an amateur historian, I’ve been the incidental beneficiary of lived experience in place of Gladwell’s admission of research-lite. The Internet has empowered people with a cell phone or computer to be factually in league with generations of scholars. One reviewer of Malcolm’s book...

Brooke Arneson, FFA Chapter Reporter Twenty-four Sleepy Eye FFA members traveled to Sibley State Park, near New London, from June 15 to 18, for the Timberland Leadership Camp. Sleepy Eye FFA Advisors, Mary Hoffmann, McKenzie Cselovszki, and Katie Emmett, the Sleepy Eye Summer Intern, Taylor Peck, along with several members from the Tracy and Marshall FFA chapters also attended the camp. The Sleepy Eye Advisors, along with Region and State Officers, and the Summer Intern did all of the program...

Dresden School Board requests veto of HB 2At its regular board meeting on Tuesday, the Dresden School Board voted unanimously to update the language of its previous resolution opposing HB 544 to reference its current inclusion as an amendment embedded...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has announced that entry fees at all 75 Minnesota state parks will be waived this Saturday, June 12th -- encouraging all Minnesotans to get outside and explore Minnesotas parks & trails. The goal is to encourage families to spend time together with a walk outdoors, to explore the natural beauty that Minnesota has to offer. Research shows that walking offers multiple benefits, from increased creativity and better brain function to more flexibili...

Nearly a dozen state parks had to close turn back visitors by early Sunday afternoon.

Time for the citizens to regain control of Lebanon Police The recent arrest and charging of Lebanon Police Lt. Richard Smolenski on a misdemeanor count of stalking is alarming (“Police lieutenant charged with stalking,” May 8). Smolenski, who has...

The “Mile of Ledges” trail is one of the most difficult journeys in the state, taking...

WOODSTOCK — In her will, Marianne Gaillard Faulkner set up long-term funding for a park she dedicated in her husband’s name, a place “to be used for rest and quiet and not for sports or other noisy activities,” the document states.That was in 1958,...

Out & About: Mount Tom Farmers’ Market back, moves to South Pomfret Modified: 5/19/2021 11:01:35 PM SOUTH POMFRET — After a year’s hiatus, the Mount Tom Farmers’ Market is back at a new location. The first market of the year is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the parking lot at Suicide Six in South Pomfret. It will run every Saturday, rain or shine, through Oct. 16. Previously, the market was held at the Mount Tom parking lot in Woodstock, but the rental cost became too high, said Ne...