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Hoag’s Castle Burned 35 Years Ago

25Sep09

Unique landmark in Wakefield, Massachusetts I never got to see the castle before it burned down 35 years ago next month. But as a kid attending the Greenwood School, I certainly heard about it. “Have you seen the castle?” was a frequent schoolyard inquiry. In that typical childhood way, the goal of the questioner was, […]

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Tags: Acorn Ave., castle, Castle Clare, castle Wakefield, Clarence Hoag, Greenwood, Greenwood Castle, Greenwood MA, Greenwood Massachusetts, Greenwood School, Montclare Estates, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Mass, Wakefield Massachusetts

Selectmen Paddle School Committee

18Sep09

Canoe race raises $660 for World War II Memorial in Wakefield, MA It was billed as the “War on the Water,” a contest where youth would challenge age in a canoe race on Lake Quannapowitt, with the more “seasoned” Wakefield Board of Selectmen taking on the relatively youthful School Committee members. In the end, age […]

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Tags: Anthony Guardia, Betsy Sheeran, boat, boats, canoe, canoe race, canoes, Chris Callanan, Daily Item, John Carney, Kevin Piskadlo, Lake Quannapowitt, Lisa Butler, Pat Glynn, Patrick Glynn, Paul DiNocco, Phyllis Hull, Quannapowitt, school board, selectmen, Stephen Maio, Steve Maio, Wakefield, Wakefield Board of Selectmen, Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Item, Wakefield MA, Wakefield Massachusetts, Wakefield School Committee, World War II, World War II Memorial, World War II Monument

Have We Forgotten 9/11?

11Sep09

In a column earlier this year, I apparently offended a few people when I offered the following observation. “For too many Americans the emotional memory of the horror and outrage of 9/11 has faded.” On the eighth anniversary of September 11, 2001, it seems an appropriate time to address the matter of how we remember […]

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Tags: 9/11, American Airlines, New York City, September 11, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, United 93, World Trade Center

Russell Nelson, Teacher

05Sep09

93 year-old WWII vet taught in Wakefield, Massachusetts for 30 years The school calendar is so engrained in most of us that the arrival of September each year invariably evokes memories our own school days. It may only be a passing memory of a classroom, a classmate or a favorite teacher. I took things a […]

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Archive for September, 2009

Hoag’s Castle Burned 35 Years Ago

Selectmen Paddle School Committee

Have We Forgotten 9/11?

Russell Nelson, Teacher

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