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U.S. Senate hopeful Stephen Pagliuca will be stopping by The Eagle-Tribune newsroom today to talk about his campaign to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Pagliuca is the third of several candidates for the seat to stop by the newsroom on the campaign trail. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is scheduled to come [...]

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Talk about fast food. It was business as usual at Fresh City on Turnpike Street in North Andover yesterday. Customers dined on the franchise’s signature sandwiches, wraps, burritos, salads and stir fry. Today, however, the Fresh City sign that adorned the building is down and by 3 p.m. crews had moved most of the restaurant’s [...]

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This morning marked the first day of full implementation of a major traffic shift on Interstate 495. If you’re heading home on 495 North tonight, you’ll have the option of crossing the median and driving on the southbound side of the highway. The splitting of the northbound lane into two lanes on the northbound side [...]

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I spent Saturday slugging along the campaign trail in Haverhill where City Counselor John Michitson is hoping to unseat current Mayor James Fiorentini. Both candidates and their supporters are pushing hard as election day nears.
I split the day in two, riding along with both candidates one at a time as they went door to door. [...]

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Well, this morning in Lawrence started out with a bang as demolition crews took down two 100-year-old smoke stacks near Sal’s headquarters. We were on hand to talk to some of the neighbors who grew up looking at those big old stacks. One woman — who does not appear on the video — is 95 [...]

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The scheduled implosion of two smoke stacks at Sal’s headquarters in Lawrence tomorrow morning is already shaping up to be a major media event. Let’s face it, destruction — specifically planned destruction where no one gets hurt — draws the crowds.
We’ll be there first thing tomorrow morning. The demolition, which they say will knock the [...]

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Eagle-Tribune TV is going on the road tonight and will be streaming video live from City Hall beginning at 7:30 p.m.
With incumbent City Mayor Michael Sullivan’s term set to expire and 10 candidates vying to replace him, today’s primary results could very well yield a more clear picture of who the real contenders are.
Polls in [...]

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The more “clunkier” the car, the more reason to trade it in, right? Not so. The Cash for Clunkers program is offering incentives for auto owners to turn in their older fuel-inefficient cars for brand new ones, but there’s an age limit. Yes, that’s right, your car may just be too clunky.
Interesting piece in the [...]

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Probably the most extreme and shocking imagery out of yesterday’s crowd gathered outside the president’s town hall meeting in Portsmouth was a picture of Barak Obama with a Hitler mustache. The doctored photo — in various forms — has been popping up at protests around the country. There were several versions at Portsmouth High yesterday. [...]

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Yesterday’s visit by President Barak Obama saw a slightly more civil tone than what we’ve seen in similar town hall meetings across the country. The street outside was filled with its share of charecters, however. I’m posting some of the unedited video we shot yesterday, most of which didn’t wind up in our finished piece.
Warning: [...]

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