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A year after the Stanley Cup Finals buzz, a new normal

A year ago Wednesday, the New England hockey world was buzzing. It was Memorial Day, a day for solemn honoring of heroes as well as backyard barbecues, was a day in 2019 for something else: The start of the Stanley Cup Finals at the TD Garden. The Boston Bruins vs. the St. Louis Blues, Game ...

Thoughts on Johnson’s return and a new hockey league

Here a some tids and barbecue bits left over from a different Memorial Day Weekend while joining the ranks of those chuckling that aspiring golfer Tom Brady should not give up his day job: – Welcome back to New Hampshire high school football, coach Tony Johnson. You've been missed. And he's ...

Time Travel for May 24

May 24, 1965 - "More than 400 athletes representing 23 schools around the state participated in the 20th annual Kiwanis track met, Nashua, under the coaching of Francis Tate, copped the team trophy beating the runner-up team by 15 points. Bill Faucher was the high scorer for the Panthers with ...

Tom Brady has new bad-guy image

You know what a mighty fall Tom Brady has taken in the hearts of New Englanders - well, at least some New Englanders - when wisecracks are lobbed in the direction of Tompa Bay from the pulpit. Thomas Tobin, a bishop in the diocese of Providence, R.I., got a sly dig in at TB12 via ...

Nothing fills this void for Twomey

He's Nashua's Mr. Baseball. But right now, Bill Twomey, 87 years young, feels like a man without a country. Or actually, a sport. “That's exactly the feeling,” Twomey said. “It's an empty feeling in you. It's my life. I was an air traffic controller for 30 years. I still look at ...

Time Travel for May 23

MAY 23, 1960 - "Nashua's Dr. Danny Murphy and John Hutchinson collaborated with a best ball of 68 to win the state four-ball golf tournament played at Nashua Country Club yesterday. "The team was one stroke better than Dr. Robert Elliott and Joe Grzwacz of Manchester, who copped runner-up ...