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More than 300,000 commuters use the 'T' network--which stretches from Concord, N.H., to Providence, R.I.--on weekdays. Cambridge officials began planning more than two weeks ago for a possible shutdown. Their contingency plans include...
...Even now, it's fun to think back on it," Kubacki, the director of boys athletics at the Middlesex School in Concord, says. "It came down to the final game. Your number-one goal is always to win the league. We worked for it and kept hoping, and it couldn't have turned out any better...
...Concord or in Manchester, signs for Reagan and Carter are hard to find. Clearly, the focus of attention has shifted to tight and emotional local races more likely to produce a high turnout. The signs for the state campaigns abound: Gallen vs. Thompson for governor, Durkin vs. Rudman for Senate, all the way down to Francis Sheine for Governor's Council...
While other cities would probably not have to eviscerate their budgets, they would still face arterial cuts. One way to prevent municipal harakiri would be charging for services or transferring the services covered by property taxes to other assessments (Concord is considering increasing its water fees by $100,000)--thereby defeating the purpose of the proposition...
...disappointing. Throughout the book, he indulges in long asides describing the literary currents and political conflicts in Hawthorne's day, yet he rarely makes any attempt to place Hawthorne in their midst. He offers no interpretation of Hawthorne's relationship to the Transcendentalists, only observing that "the politics of Concord, transcendental or otherwise, were never to Hawthorne's liking." Bronson Alcott, one of the most famous of the transcendental teachers, lived down the street from Hawthorne's home in Concord; yet the most telling detail that Mellow discloses about the relationship between the two men is that Hawthorne's wife...