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Brehm wins re-election to Medfield School Committee
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MEDFIELD Leo G. Brehm II fended off a challenge from two other candidates to win re-election to the Medfield School Committee at the annual Town Election on March 29.
It was one of two contested races in this year s election; the other was a write-in campaign waged by Thomas Sweeney for the Assessors seat won by Michael Rose.
In the School Committee race, Brehm topped the ballot with 763 votes, followed by Lauren Liljergen with 465 and Robert W. Worth III with 285.
Voters and supporters alike contended with heavy winds outside the polling place at The Center for Medfield.
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Obscure SF: Remembering the earthquake-proof observatory at Golden Gate Park that fell in 15 years
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The base is all that remains of Sweeny Observatory on top of Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Mar. 8, 2021. The observatory was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
Thomas U. Sweeny may be the first person to have a Golden Gate Park landmark named after him, and he was certainly the first to make a show of it.
Sweeny, who made a fortune in gold-mining and buying property in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset, cast himself as a modest man of the people at a dedication ceremony 130 years ago for his newly built panoramic viewpoint atop Strawberry Hill: the Sweeny Observatory.
The Burning of Clifden, St Patrick’s Day, 1921
On the morning of 14th March, 1921, thousands of people gathered in solemn prayer outside Mountjoy Prison in
Dublin as six IRA Volunteers were hanged within the walls. One of the men executed was twenty-three year old Thomas Whelan from Clifden, County Galway. The death of this man, despite appeals for clemency from many, including Monsignor McAlpine of Clifden and the Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Gilmartin fell on deaf ears. Within a week, Clifden would be overwhelmed by violence writes Dominic Price in his Stories of the War of Independence
Throughout early March, Commandant Petie Joe McDonnell, O/C of the West Connemara Flying Column of the IRA had tried to carry out an ambush on RIC patrols from Clifden. The police had declined to oblige. Instead, McDonnell decided to attack the RIC in the town itself.