Fort Devens News

The lawyer for Anthony M. "The Saint" St. Laurent Sr., who is accused of trying to recruit fellow inmates to kill a Patriarca crime family rival, has moved for a delay in the case, saying St.

It used to be when the wiseguys who run the Mafia from Federal Hill in Providence decided to replace personnel at their branch office in the North End of Boston, somebody would end up dead.

Rust-colored sediment and putrid-looking growth on submerged branches in the 30-acre Plow Shop Pond's Red Cove do not invite wading, fishing or even foot-dipping. It's the Army's job to determine if its past activities present risk to either humans or the ecology.

Nathan Buckley knows the word "comrades" takes on new meaning when fighting in a war zone.

You know it's summer when the U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps performs its annual Battle Color Ceremony and concert at Eldredge Park, Route 28 and Eldredge Park Way.

"It's just scribbling," he said. "But it's absolutely priceless to me now." It was left for him Thursday night by his son Patrick, hours before the 21-year-old Marine veteran, who returned from Iraq two months ago, joined his buddies for a midnight swim that ended with his death in a Quincy quarry.

The news from Detroit can't get much worse. And unemployment rates are likely to climb ever higher.

As I see in the paper about the deployment of troops from Camp Shelby, it reminds me of my own military experience.

Residents at Monday night's special Town Meeting voted nearly unanimously to support amending zoning requirements for the Vicksburg Square area of the former Fort Devens.

The town with potentially the largest number of residential units to gain from the rezoning of Devens' Vicksburg Square to allow for residential uses is Ayer.

Residents of the three towns that host the Fort Devens property are to vote tomorrow night on the fate of Vicksburg Square, a cluster of historic buildings in the heart of the former Army base.

A wealthy Glen Head developer who is already serving an 8-year sentence for his role in a 2007 congressional corruption scandal was charged Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn with masterminding a $90-million mortgage scam.

Memorial Day is a day set aside to "pay tribute to the brave men and women who gave their lives" for America's most cherished values and ideals, said Sgt.

A field investigation was conducted to evaluate the impact of a discharging arsenic plume on sediment contamination in a cove within Plow Shop Pond adjacent to Shepley's Hill Landfill at the Fort Devens Superfund Site in Massachusetts.

Most notably, the rezoning proposal would permit multifamily uses for the historic buildings, along with small-scale retail development to service the future homesteaders.

James O'Brien, 61, a partner with Worcester's Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting law firm, has been involved in the city's community life for more than 30 years.

Marie Sidilou Enzinger Rettger, 85, of Garland, Texas, died May 7, 2009, after a period of declining health.

Fort Devens is reviving its Armed Forces Day celebrations for the first time since the central Massachusetts army based was decommissioned more than a decade ago.

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Devens, the modern-day version of the former Fort Devens, will be celebrating Armed Forces Day on Saturday, May 16, for the first time in more than 10 years, said Lt.

The course is 18 holes. The par is 54. However, these links lack caddies, carts and clubs.