Recently added articles from The Sun (Lowell, MA):
Palma takes over as police chief in Groton.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Hiroko Sato Oct. 2--GROTON -- After more than 30 years as a police officer, Donald Palma Jr. admits he still hasn't gotten used to dealing with tragic death. No one ever does, even skilled police officers, he says. "Nobody survives something like ...
High mark for Dow.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Dan O'Brien Oct. 2--As is often the case on Wall Street, bad news is interpreted as good news. Barely six weeks after the Dow Jones Industrial Average cratered on investor concerns over the credit and housing markets, the nation's best-known stock index ...
Local native killed in combat.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Robert Mills Oct. 2--GROTON -- It was April when Zachary Tellier saw a vehicle in his infantry unit drive over a bomb in Afghanistan, severely burned his own hands while pulling two men from that vehicle, and then jumped onto its gun turret to fight back. ...
Board mulls options to pay for schools-chief search.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Chris Camire Oct. 2--TYNGSBORO -- The School Committee is rethinking its plan to ask voters for $25,000 to pay a consultant to lead its superintendent search. The committee, which meets tonight, may remove an article from the warrant for next Tuesday's ...
Fundraising still going strong for skate park.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jack Minch Oct. 2--PEPPERELL -- The independent Skate Park Committee raised about $53,000 for equipment at Town Field during its first three years of fundraising, but in the past 10 days, it has raised an additional $10,000, supporters said yesterday. ...
Locals take day off for Sox rally.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Hillary Chabot Oct. 2--BOSTON -- Tewksbury resident Jimmy Dufield knew he'd be at the Red Sox rally in Boston as soon as the team nabbed the American League East division championship Friday night. School would just have to wait. "I'm excited to ...
Judge will visit Billerica cemetery to view flagpole.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Lisa Redmond Oct. 2--LOWELL -- A Superior Court judge is going to take a "view" of the Fox Hill Cemetery in Billerica to see if a 20-foot flagpole will remain at Henry Favreau's gravesite as his grieving daughter wants or if town officials will get their wish and have ...
Heroes' Homecoming at Hanscom.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Dennis Shaughnessey Oct. 2--BEDFORD -- The hangar doors opened to a rushing wave of emotion, sweeping 201 soldiers from the 399th Combat Support Hospital who were returning from 12 months in Iraq. Marching through a phalanx of family and friends at Hanscom Air ...
Tsongas camp: Ogonowski 'in lock step' with President Bush.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Matt Murphy Oct. 2--LOWELL -- Republican Jim Ogonowski would have people believe he is not a partisan politician, but rather someone who will help usher a new tone into Washington politics. Democrat Niki Tsongas, however, is cautioning voters not to buy the ...
Mental-health care bill gets Dukakises' support.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Hillary Chabot Oct. 2--BOSTON -- Former Gov. Michael Dukakis and his wife Kitty were at the Statehouse yesterday to support a bill providing equal health-care coverage for mental illness and substance abuse. Kitty Dukakis, who has struggled with both ...
Club hits $1.2M mark to erect new building.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Jennifer Amy Myers Oct. 2--BILLERICA -- The possibility of expanding and renovating the facilities of a thriving club is what lured Roy Nagy from the Lynn Boys and Girls Club to Billerica seven years ago. Yesterday, the director of the Boys and Girls Club of ...
Elegance with a twist Ladylike styles get a jolt with eye-popping accessories.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Rachel R. Briere Oct. 2--Everyone will fall for sophisticated looks with this season's return to elegance. What saves the ladylike looks from appearing too much like a portrait taken at high tea are updated hemlines, patent leather accessories and metallic accents. ...
Moose takes a dip in Townsend pool.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Dennis Shaughnessey Oct. 2--TOWNSEND -- Sitting at his computer on Sunday afternoon, John Whittemore was startled by the sound of a large splash in his backyard pool. At first, he thought it was Cruiser, his springer spaniel, but the splash was too loud ....
Clinton delivers star power.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Matt Murphy Oct. 1--LOWELL -- The Democratic faithful delighted in an appearance by Bill Clinton last night, hanging on his every word as the charismatic former president told a packed audience at Lowell Memorial Auditorium that this Congressional election is "way more ...
Lowell High, UMass Lowell athletes star.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Lynn Worthy Oct. 1--LOWELL -- Row, row, row your boat, and pass those other teams. Around this time each fall the old nursery rhyme needs a little bit of adjusting. "Gently down the stream" doesn't describe how any of the approximately 2,000 competitors in ...
A-list political showstopper had thousands cheering.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Rita Savard Oct. 1--LOWELL -- Maybe it was the way he hopped-skipped on stage. Maybe it was the story about how he learned his plane was "broken" and he drove "like a madperson" to see them. Or maybe it was when, in his best relaxed Arkansas drawl, he said, ...
Groton-Dunstable students have big dreams for peace.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Hiroko Sato Oct. 1--GROTON -- For eighth-grader Drew Gentile, pushpins symbolize the plights people suffer. In every one of the dozens of countries and regions he and his classmates marked with pins on a world map, people suffer through genocide, war or other ...
Officers head to court in harass case.
Sep 29, 2007 ... Byline: Lisa Redmond Sep. 29--BOSTON -- Two years after a federal jury awarded former officer Vanessa Dixon $2.2 million in the infamous Lowell police bus-trip lawsuit, four Lowell officers are headed to federal court to argue they were unfairly reprimanded by the city in the ...
Rapist's sentence postponed.
Sep 29, 2007 ... Byline: Lisa Redmond Sep. 29--LOWELL -- Minutes before convicted rapist David Coutu was scheduled to be sentenced to up to life in prison for using a crowbar to rape an Ayer woman last year, he fired his attorney forcing the judge to postpone sentencing until a new attorney is ...
LeFave probation cut nixed.
Sep 29, 2007 ... Byline: Lisa Redmond Sep. 29--LOWELL -- A Superior Court judge has rejected Cheryl Amirault LeFave's bid to have her probation terminated early, forcing her to stick to a plea bargain she made eight years ago when she was released from prison in 1999 in the infamous Fells Acre ...