By John Vincent 2/21/23 President Biden spoke in Poland the other day about the war in Ukraine, and how it’s up to all of us to fight for freedom. This was the most coherent I’ve seen Biden look in years. He spoke extensively without making any of the numerous misstatements that usually pepper his speech […]
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Telling a story of hope
By John Vincent ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT LAKEVILLE – Bedridden for years and confined to a body cast due to an outbreak of tuberculosis that lodged in her spine at the age of 3, Gale Perkins, now 70, is hoping people will take a glimmer of hope from her self-published book, “The Baby’s Cross.” Perkins spent the […]
Family fights for justice
By John Vincent ENTERPRISE CORRESPONDENT LAKEVILLE — After seeing one of the killers of their son, Jason Burgeson, acquitted in federal court, family members are lobbying for a change in the federal carjacking law to make sure that future criminals get the penalty they deserve. Kenneth Day was sentenced to four life sentences in state […]
Health assessment spurs discussion
By John Vincent On Further Review The Joint Coalition on Health, based in Fitchburg, recently came out with its Community Health Assessment of North Central Massachusetts and it pointed out that this area once again is higher than the state average in several categories. The assessment was sponsored in part by Heywood Healthcare in Gardner […]
Tremont Nails hammers home its historic market niche
By John VincentSpecial to HomeGallery MagazineHistory is still in the making in a mill on Route 28 in Wareham where the Tremont Nail Co. is producing some of the same cut nails made in the early 1800s for contractors to use in restoring antique homes.The Tremont Nail Co. has a certain amount of old-world charm […]
An explosive marketing idea
Fireworks company advertises in Massachusetts, where they’re illegal John VincentOn Further Review The Fourth of July is coming up on Monday, and you know what that means — everyone everywhere will be celebrating the good old USA, freedom, democracy and the rule of law. And what better way is there to do that than with […]
These snakes have me rattled
By John VincentOn Further Review I’ve seen several people weigh in about the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s ab¬surd plan to introduce rattlesnakes into an area where they’ve been eradicated for generations — this area — and I want to add my venom to the pot of those saying that this is completely ridiculous. […]