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Brunet proposes creating a place to honour local visionaries

Letters: Community losses Shares We are deeply saddened by the loss of the gifted artist, Mark Rivera. Exacerbating this loss is the mindless destruction of one of his beautiful murals previously adorning the east-facing wall of a previous Davis Hardware building. How ironic to have lost Mark twice in the span of two weeks. Craig and Darien Blomberg

Venerable buildings still dominate Gardner's skyline today Mike Richard Special for The Gardner News If there was ever a shot that perfectly depicted West Gardner Square on a lazy summer day in the 1960s, the accompanying photograph taken by Charles Clark could be it. Shoppers are seen milling in and out of the many stores, while downtown regulars lean on a streetlamp or congregate in the doorway of a barber shop to share in the daily news. A Gardner police officer, safely stowed in his traffic box, directs the cars motoring along through the square. This was downtown Gardner in the mid-1960s...