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Worcester Telegramshortly after buying the Boston Globe last yr, John Henry wrote a three,000-phrase essay for the newspaper explaining why he bought it. The purchase wasn’t about profits, Henry defined, it was about discovering a option to maintain the newspaper for the long term. The Globe, he stated, is the eyes and ears of the region and, in some ways, its heartbeat. Henry vowed that the newspaper, which had been on an extended decline underneath the New York Times, would return to personal, local possession with an allegiance to readers and local residents, to not distant shareholders.

That the brand new owner stated, This won’t influence our information coverage in any means” is an insult to the people of Worcester and central Massachusetts. Nevertheless, I hope he succeeds in making the Telegram a better and extra financially wholesome native news group. All of us ought to. However, given the occasions of Monday, there may be little trigger for optimism.

I think what I mainly gave up was the sensation that I have now of independence, of being able to do what I need when I wish to do it. I made some selections, and I believe the choices I made were … Read the rest

Johna Horowitz by — November 10, 2015 in Worcester Telegram

Worcester TelegramWithin the closing, bitter-sweet, episode of the Blackadder collection ~ ‘Blackadder Goes Fo(u)rth’ ~ the comedy out of the blue, unexpectedly, however quite rightly and appropriately, turns very critical. It is 1917, within the trenches of France, and the team are about to go ‘excessive’.

When the floodwaters receded, and all our lakes, oceans, rivers and brooks have been shaped from the identical physique of water, how come some of them are saltwater and some are freshwater? It is mind-boggling to think about the world being coated five miles excessive with water. Charles Welsh. Born 1887 ~ Chester, England. Emigrated to Canada. Enlisted February 1915. His ‘Battalion was concerned in quite a few bloody skirmishes surrounding Passchendaele’. Went AWOL thrice. After the third event Personal Welsh was sentenced to death by firing squad. Executed March 1918. Age 30. We’ve not acquired sufficient scores to display an average for the current version of this software.

By September 1917 Kirman not felt able to bope. He went absent with out leave. Because of this, following court martial, he was executed, aged 32, on on twenty third September 1917. He would not even know about the obscure waste of thousands of dollars occurring … Read the rest

Johna Horowitz by — April 5, 2015 in Worcester Telegram