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Lidl to join Lawrence Shopping Center businesses Lidl to join Lawrence Shopping Center businesses The transformation of the former ACME grocery store into a Lidl grocery store at the Lawrence Shopping Center is well underway, with an anticipated opening date in mid- to late summer, according to Lawrence Township officials. The renovation has been taking place in spurts since demolition work on the vacant space began in August 2020. Behind a chain link fence that bars entry to the work site, signs that promote Lidl’s impending opening have been attached to the plywood covering the storefron...

Read Article 100 Years Ago: 1921 The annual bowling banquet and entertainment of the Calumet Club was held last evening at Odd Fellows Hall on Lisbon Street. More than 150 members of the club attended the affair which is one of the leading events in club life. The banquet was served at 6:30 with the first part of the entertainment program immediately after. During the intermission the presentations of prizes, individual and teams took place. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Hundreds of area shoppers visited the all-new W. T. Grant Store in Lewiston today as the doors of the large establishment were op...

KEYNOTES: Residents recall outdoor rinks of yesterday Rosemary Rimkus The frigid temperatures have frozen sections of the Assabet River and area ponds, allowing locals to continue the time-honored tradition in Hudson of outdoor skating. Hudson resident Dave O’Neil, 94, member of the 1943-44 Hudson High School hockey team, recalls that Tripp’s Pond was always frozen in those days by the end of December, and provided practice space for the team. “We practiced daily on a rink we cleared at Tripp’s, and then played all our games at the old Boston Arena,” he recalled, “traveling by bus...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   Much comfort is derived from the familiarity of home. And after reading the full page Brattleboro Historical Society’s “Looking Back at Living Memorial Park” in the Jan. 30 Reformer, complete with black and white memories, nostalgia rolled in. I am now at 74, of an age where I don’t take life for granted much as life was depicted for me in those easy-breezy day photos of goings on in our town during that time. To quote my friend, Sue Strong, “I wish we had known how lovely our lives were; dancing the night away at ...

The Gardner Scene: It’s been 50 years since 1971! Many readers will no doubt remember some of these events like they happened only yesterday Mike Richard Special for The Gardner News If you can remember the last time you saw a cigarette advertisement on television, remember the first time you heard a toilet flush on television or bought Carole King’s “Tapestry” album when it first came out – then you’re old enough to remember 1971. Why is it that each year, as we get older, it’s so hard to believe that things that happened a full half-century ago really don’t seem that long ag...