Lesser, AG tout new student loan borrower bill of rights >Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, and Attorney General Maura Healey speak Thursday about the state’s recently implemented Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. SCREENSHOT
Published: 7/15/2021 9:25:32 PM
BOSTON A bill creating a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights and an ombudsman’s office tasked with protecting those borrowers has gone into effect in Massachusetts.
State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, was an author of that bill, and six years after he first proposed the legislation it passed in January as part of the state Legislature’s $627M economic development bill. On July 1, Arwen Thoman was named the state’s first student loan ombudsman, whose work will be conducted out of the attorney general’s office.
‘Imbued with meaning’: 75 years later, B-17 crash victims honored at Mount Tom ceremony >Mount Tom Memorial Committee Chairman Bob Cahillane of Northampton delivers opening remarks at the 75th Anniversary Ceremony of the B-17 crash at Mount Tom, Saturday, in Holyoke. FOR THE GAZETTE/Sabato Visconti >Ellen Stettner, Niece of Radioman 3rd Class Alfred Warm, who died in the B-17 crash 75 years ago, leads a crowd of Veterans, family members, and public officials like U.S. Congressman Richard Neal, in singing the National Anthem during the anniversary ceremony at the site of the crash in Mt. Tom, Saturday in Holyoke, MA. Sabato Visconti Copyright.2021
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Remembering the B-17 crash on Mount Tom 75 years on > >Published: 7/4/2021 8:36:49 PM
HOLYOKE On a dark, rainy night on July 9, 1946, about two dozen servicemen aboard a B-17 “Flying Fortress” were returning home from war. They had served in World War II and were flying towards Westover Field from Greenland with their final instructions to “Report for Separation.”
The war was over and they were heading back to their families a journey they never completed. The B-17, carrying 25 servicemen, crashed into Mount Tom in the late hours of the night. The men died upon impact on the side of the mountain, nearly 300 feet below the summit.