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The Athol Daily News has announced the appointment of Daniel M. Mahoney as advertising manager, replacing Bernard R. Cunningham who, after 45 years in the advertising business, has announced his retirement.
■At a recent meeting, Debra Vescovi, campaign chairman of the 1995-96 Athol Area United Way campaign, announced that the drive is approximately $15,000 short of the $160,000 goal.
■Corey Robertson and Shawna Farley, seniors at Athol High School, painted a mural in the hall of Our Lady Immaculate Center recently.
■Students in Sally Stone’s sixth-grade class at Riverbend School were recently hooked by satellite to the New England Aquarium in Boston. Students were able to make a direct link to aquarium biologist Paul Erickson and asked a question regarding shellfish. As the children watched the live presentation on TV, they were able to interact with hundreds of other st
In ‘The Intelligence War against the IRA’
, Thomas Leahy, Senior Lecturer in Politics in Cardiff University, challenges the growing dominant narrative that the IRA was brought to the negotiating table in the 1990s because they had been ‘brought to their knees’ by British intelligence. Since the outing of State agents, Stakeknife and Denis Donaldson in particular, in the early 2000s, many academics, historians and commentators have concluded that the IRA campaign ended in defeat because it was fatally compromised by agents and informers. Existing books and articles, while not studying the intelligence war in any significant detail, yet conclude that British intelligence was vital in forcing the IRA into peace.
Today marks the official Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, a day we set aside to honor the civil rights leader who was slain 53 years ago this spring.
That seems an apt time on which to reflect on the life of a lesser-known civil rights figure and former Virginia office-holder who was murdered 152 years ago â and is just now getting his due from history. This is the story of Joseph R. Holmes.
We must rewind to the years immediately following the Civil War, when Virginia was formally known as the First Military District as it awaited readmission to the Union. That required a new state constitution, and that a constitutional convention. In 1867, Virginia held elections to that body. Many former Confederates were barred from voting under congressional rules; others boycotted the elections. That led to Republicans â the abolitionist party â winning a majority in the convention. That convention, which assembled Dec. 3, 1867, was a multiracial body. Of the 104 delegates, at
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