Article: Weights of time shift to new shoulders; Keeper of the clock retires after 48 years.

Byline: Paula J. Owen

PRINCETON - Kenneth N. Hagberg, 79, has been working on clocks for nearly 70 years, but his longest relationship, with the antique tower clock at the Princeton Public Library, ended abruptly when he had to stop winding it after 48 years.

Mr. Hagberg loves clocks; at 14 he started as a clockmaker's apprentice, working for clockmaker Kusti Lahde on Belmont Street in Worcester.

Since then, he has repaired and maintained clocks, been a teletype mechanic while in the Army, and started his own piano tuning and moving business in Princeton.

He had hoped to wind the library's tower clock, made by the E. Howard Clock Co. ...

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