Drink up, Clinton!

The results of a Today Show tap water taste test are in and Massachusett’s MWRA is near the top. Water taken from a Massachusetts Water Resource Authority tap in Boston came in second to Salt Lake City (whose tap water is apparently very non-salty) in the contest.
Professional wine tasters were called in for the contest [...]

“Now it’s onto Lancaster”

Town Meeting may be over, but several key issues that have gripped the town leading up to the process are still going. Residents voted in favor of purchasing a large tract of open space and building a new senior center, but both issues still have to be approved at a special election. And although the [...]

Time to hit the trail…

I remember sitting in the newsroom in Concord when the news came through a little more than two years ago that Community Newspaper Company had purchased the Times & Courier. “Hey, that’s my paper!” I shouted. Of course, it wasn’t “my paper,” but such is the feeling most people have about their hometown paper.
At the [...]

Cool Tunnel

I’m working tonight on a package for this week’s paper on efforts to bring the Mass Central Rail Trail through Clinton. One of the most interesting features on that potential trail is our own train tunnel off Boylston Street that runs more than 700 feet under Wilson street and several houses before coming out the [...]

An end to a sad story

When it was learned in February that a High Street businessmen running a shop that catered to teenage boys was a Level 3 sex offender, many community members wanted him out. Four months later he is out — permanently. Stephen B. Lemons, 52, a native Clintonian convicted of molesting a 15-year-old mentally handicapped boy is [...]

Cowboy Action Shooting

I sauntered on over to Harvard to the Harvard Sportsmen’s Association last weekend for the Cowboy Action Shooting Championships for Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. What is Cowboy Action Shooting you ask? Well, remember when you were a kid and you liked to play cowboy — don the hat and trusty Colt revolver? Well, apparently, [...]

Dying isn’t cheap, but it’s cheaper here

Check out Times & Courier reporter Patrick Brodrick’s story today on the cost of being buried in Clinton. We all know the cost of living is rising, but apparently the cost of dying is, too.
Right now it only costs about $200 to get buried on a weekday — $350 on weekend. DPW Director Chris McGown [...]