WINCHENDON Are you looking for a fun way to keep reading this winter? The Beals Memorial Library in Winchendon has just the thing. For the month of March, the library will be hosting their first ever Read Across America event, a fun-filled challenge.
‘Has he ever been here?’: Tucker Carlson’s description of Springfield doesn’t mesh with reality, residents and officials say
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Fox News host Tucker Carlson referred to Springfield, Massachusetts, as a place famous for burned-out buildings and murders during his Thursday night broadcast. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Getty Images
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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson whose on-air statements a court determined shouldn’t be viewed as facts opened Thursday night’s show smearing Springfield in a story about cultural friction at Smith College in Northampton.
“One place is famous for burned-out buildings and murders,” Carlson said, according to a transcript of the show. “The other has wrought-iron gates and a nationally known art museum on campus.
A Friendly’s legacy
Friendly’s founder always ‘had to be creating’ and at 106, he had plans to talk with chain’s new CEO
Updated on Feb 21, 2021;
Published on Feb 21, 2021
Friendly Ice Cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake at the Boston Road restaurant in Springfield in September 2014, shortly before he turned 100. The Republican file
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In the final days of his long life, S. Prestley Blake wanted to talk business and that business was Friendly’s.
He had a telephone conference set with Craig Erlich, the new CEO of the Friendly’s restaurant chain.
Blake was excited to talk about the future of the company he and his brother Curtis founded in 1935, his wife Helen Blake shared in the wake of his death on Feb. 11, at the age of 106.
The Springfield Museums celebrate the birth of the city’s most famous children’s author, Dr. Seuss, with a month of events
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
The Springfield Museums celebrated the birthday of beloved children s author and Springfield native Ted Geisel Saturday with Dr. Seuss-inspired cakes, decorations, activities and visits from The Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, the Grinch and the Lorax.Steve Smith Special to The Republican
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In celebration of one of the most well-known Springfield natives, Dr. Seuss, the Springfield Museums will be hosting a series of events throughout March. Pre-pandemic crowds would have been drawn to the museums for a single event. Now, they have been spread out, some made virtual, and others were created to observe social distancing.
/PRNewswire/ The Springfield Museums present Hats Off to Dr. Seuss! A month-long celebration of Springfield-native Theodor Seuss Geisel, the author who.