Archive for Boston
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Watch the Perseid Meteor Showers this August 12th
If, around August 12th, you go outside between midnight and dawn and look up for a minute or so, you'll most likely spot a meteor streaking through the sky. The August Perseid meteors were the first that astronomers associated with a particular comet. In the mid 1860s, Italian astronomer Giovanni Sc...
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Local Post Offices Are Closing. Is Yours on the List?
As the United States Postal Service, weighed down by a crippling multibillion-dollar deficit, shrinks its operations, post offices across the country are on the chopping block. Each year, hundreds of postal operations shutter, but this coming fall could be the single biggest consolidation in Postal ...
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Massachusetts Beaches Now Have to Deal with Jellyfish
Jellyfish attack Boston area beaches! Poisonous Portuguese men-of-war, in an unusually large invasion, stung at least 14 people in Massachusetts during the last week, prompting periodic swimming bans on Cape and Islands beaches during one of the summer's busiest holiday weeks. Local and state ...
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Mark Wahlberg in Lowell To Film Micky Ward Movie – The Fighter
Finally, the "Irish" Micky Ward movie The Fighter is a reality and it's filming right here in Lowell. Yesterday afternoon, actor Mark Wahlberg, who will play Lowell boxer Ward, met with scouts for the movie in the lobby of the Lowell DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Lowell to discuss possible locatio...
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Do You Have Sleep Apnea? Did You Know It Makes You Tired or Dead
Do you know someone that has been diagnosed with sleep apnea and you did not dare ask what it is exactly? Are you aware that a lot of people are unaware of being affected by this sleep disorder? Could you or someone close to you be suffering from this disorder? Let's find out! What is sleep apnea...
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Eleven years and Whitey Bulger still on the run
No news conference this year, just a short press release announcing the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Federal and state law enforcement officials on Wednesday said they're still hunting for the fugitive, an alleged killer who ran drug an...
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Air Travel Makes You Sick. Lets Not Panic
As international travelers help swine flu hopscotch across the globe, the potential pandemic sharpens a paranoia familiar to even the most casual flier. Isn't sitting on a plane for hours, squished next to strangers and breathing the same air, a surefire recipe for getting sick later? That common...
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Support Iraq war veterans running for Congress
Tammy Duckworth lost her legs when the helicopter she was piloting was shot down over Iraq. But, she didn't lose an ounce of her courage or her commitment to serve. She knows that it's time for veterans to speak up for a stronger America. That's why Tammy is running for Congress - and her electio...
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Support Massachusetts Democrats
Dear Friend, In 3 months, voters across the Commonwealth will head to the polls for the critically important 2006 election. It has been 20 years -- far too long -- since we elected a Democratic governor here at home. Massachusetts, like so much of the country, is ready for a change. That's why...
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Harpoon Winter Warmer Beer & Friends of Harpoon Winter Events
I got this from the Harpoon Brewery today: We are less than a month away from Harpoon Helps Spread Holiday Cheer . On Saturday, December 1st, we will be again be sending Harpoon Helpers to 25 different locations in Boston to decorate and spread good tidings to those who need it the most. We are s...
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Couple Beers No Beers WBCN’s Chili Guy
Couple Beers No Beers The Toucher and Rich show does drunken Red Sox recaps after most Sox home games and just interview the drunkest people they see about the game they saw the night before. At first they interviewed this guy and they thought he was a drunk guy at the game but a few months later...
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Boston Sports Commercial Debuts During World Series
Mayor Menino was the only non-athlete with the exception of the narrator, Dorchester native Donnie Wahlberg appearing in a 30-second advertisement for local footwear maker Reebok. The company lined up star power endorsers including David Ortiz, Bruin great Bobby Orr, former Boston College and Pat...
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Justin Timberlake Coming to Boston
Justin Timberlake is coming to Boston to the TD Banknorth Garden (formerly Fleetcenter), Boston, MA on February 6, 2007 at 07:30 PM. I'm thinking there's going to be a few of my girl friends that will want to go. The problem is that I need to find someone in the Justin Timberlake fanclub to get my t...
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Weymouth’s Own Sgt. Andrew Farrar
DROPKICK MURPHYS - "Last Letter Home" Listen to Last Letter Home (Album Version) Hello there my dearest love Today I write to you about our sons The boys start school today They're the spitting image of you in every way Hey son it's Dad I hope this letter finds you well out of harm's wa...
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9/11 + 5
Five years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil, families of some of the nearly 3,000 victims gathered Monday at Ground Zero for a solemn ceremony. The commemoration included four moments of silence. Two for the times that hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center towers (which Drac...
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Red Sox Joke of the Month
On a tour of Florida, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the coast for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the beach in the Pope-mobile when there was a frantic commotion just off shore. A helpless man, wearing a New York Yankee jersey, was struggling frantically to free himself from th...
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Massachusetts Schools Getting Money for Extending Student Day
10 schools in Massachusetts will be paid by the state with state funds to lengthen their days, a pilot program dubbed "Expanded Learning Time" that people believe will improve test scores and opponents say is too costly. The $25.2 billion state budget Gov. Mitt Romney signed Saturday included a $...
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Ashlee Simpson Can Smile While in Massachusetts
It isn't easy being Ashlee Simpson. There's the gorgeous, mega-famous older sister. The Saturday Night Live lip-syncing snafu. Being booed at the Orange Bowl. Getting caught on tape drunkenly swearing and barefoot at a McDonald's. But Ashlee Simpson, 21, can laugh about it. A few years in show...
