Summer Starts Monday

In the United States the official start of summer is Memorial Day.  The day of remembrance is also the beginning of the American season of greater outdoor activity.

In ECM Country there are a number of parks to help enjoy the richness of East Central Massachusetts. Oh Ranger has a list of state parks in the Bay State.  Find Local Parks sorts the parks by county.

The state of Massachusetts Department of Conservation offers a listing by region and is the  source of the East Central Massachusetts News Google/Zeemaps produced interactive presentation for ECM Country.

Click a bubble to see what park is near where you live and enjoy where you live.

Find yourself someplace to relax in ECM Country Memorial Day and let us know what you think citizen. 

Get into action and click the comments link below and express your citizenship. It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent station. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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Cookout Time for the Holiday in ECM Country

How would you like a quarter-mile long grill in your Memorial Day plans.  The Food Channel’s Tyler Florence cooked on such a grill yesterday in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Courtesy Coca Cola Quarter-Mile Cookout

What did you think about the racetrack cookout?

All right, get into action and click the comments link below and express your citizenship. It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent station. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

Curator

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Take A Breather

It’s the long holiday weekend in ECM Country and we at East Central Massachusetts News certainly believe it’s time for a respite.  Enjoy some Internet humor.

Courtesy of Comics.com

All right, get into action and click the comments link below and express your humor, opinion of ours and citizenship. It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent station. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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Farmers Markets in ECM Country

Opening dates for Farmers’ Markets across East Central Massachusetts and the rest of the Bay State vary.  East Central Massachusetts News offers several resources for buying local produce. 

Here’s a sample of Farmers’ Markets in ECM Country last year.

Mass.gov lists Farmers Markets 2009 and there is Farmer’s Market Online. The Federation of Massachusetts Farmers’ Markets lists locations as well.

The Farmers Market Coalition has a Plain Language Guide to Selling at a Farmers Market.

The Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Farm to School project even has a cookbook for local produced goods.

Buy local and support ECM Country citizen. 

All right, get into action and click the comments link below and express your citizenship. It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent station. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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One More Sneak Preview ECMNooz

Memorial Day ECMNooz YouTube channel makes East Central Massachusetts News home.   You’ll see a collection of YouTube content ECM News created and collected.   Below is a sample of ECMNooz in a post presentation.  You’ll see posts like this from time to time.  The ECMNooz YouTube channel starting Memorial Day will always appear.

All right, get into action and click the comments link below and express your citizenship. It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz takes East Central Massachusetts News as permanent station. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts like this here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through a collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get a chance to scroll through a keenly selected list of videos like this ECMNooz sneak preview.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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JFK 92nd Birthday

Today is John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s birthday.  It would have been his 92nd had an assassin’s aim missed its mark.

Here’s is one of his last commencement speeches.  It was at American University, June 10, 1963.

And today the debate goes on with different players.

Join the discourse citizen.  One way is to click the comments link below.

It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent home. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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Images of East Central Massachusetts

Relaxing for Memorial Day weekend in the United States and East Central Massachusetts it’s time to reflect on the Bay State and it’s beauty.

Some of the original multimedia reflections ECM News will present in posts and on ECMNooz.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent home. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

All right, get into action and click the comments link below and express your citizenship. It’s about you.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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ECM Country Quick Tour

The holiday weekend is here and a moment to relax and enjoy East Central Massachusetts is upon us.

All right, get into action and click the comments link below and express your citizenship. It’s about you.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent home. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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Bikers to Beacon Hill MA

The Massachusetts State House News Service reports motorcyclists lobbied lawmakers in Boston today.  It’s an annual event for the 350,000-citizens of the state bikers association.

Their concerns range from registration fees to helmets to training of riders.

Courtesy of State House News Service

Videos like this one and others can be viewed on the ECMNooz preview.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent home. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

Curator

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Another Sneak Preview ECMNooz YouTube Channel

Memorial Day East Central Massachusetts News brings you the ECMNooz YouTube channel.  It’s associated with ECM News and where you can enjoy and view a lot of stories presented here.  This is ECMNooz below.

 

The collection of videos presented on East Central Massachusetts News via ECMNooz will vary.  The videos there now are a collection of multimedia reports on ECM News.  Getting confused.  ECMNooz is YouTube video and ECM News is this site where ECMNooz will appear permanently on Memorial Day and will from time to time appear in posts in this position and others.

Also coming Monday are new ways you can contribute as a citizen and business in East Central Massachusetts.

Join the discourse citizen and click on the comments link below.

James Rowe

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Hope of a Mentor

In the United States, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick spoke of what one teacher meant to his life.  The Bay State Chief Executive addressed the Facing History and Ourselves Organization’s annual dinner.

Governor Deval Patrick courtesy of the Governor’s Office.

Join the discussion citizen when you click on the comments link below and express yourself.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz makes East Central Massachusetts News its permanent home. You’ll see our ECMNooz YouTube channel in posts here at ECM News too. The permanent viewer comes Monday and it will cycle through the collection of videos on the ECMNooz YouTube channel. In posts you’ll get the chance to scroll through a more keenly selected list of videos to watch like the ECMNooz sneak preview in an earlier post.

Next week, more ways for citizen and business to contribute.

James Rowe

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Free Pool Weekend for Holiday In Shirley, MA

Memorial Day is Monday and ECM Country is in a holiday mood for the long weekend.  Shirley, MA citizens get free access to the pool at Benjamin Hill Park all the long holiday weekend starting Saturday afternoon.

Brush up on what’s going on in your town or city in East Central Massachusetts by using the Massachusetts Gazetteer hometown locator.

You’ll learn all kinds of information about government and statistics and how to live in ECM Country.

ECMNooz YouTube channel makes a permanent home with East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day. 

See the ECMNooz sneak preview in today’s first post. 

ECMNooz will appear in posts and give you a chance to examine our playlist or the permanent viewer, coming Monday, will cycle through the entire collection on ECMNooz.

Speak up using the comments links below. 

Other ways citizen and business may contribute come next week as well.

James Rowe

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United States Citizenship Lessons

What does it take to practice citizenship in ECM Country?  Perhaps the same practices required to be an American citizen.  Young folks give you an idea of what they’ve learned about citizenship in this video from the 2009 “We The People” competition.

Young people vying for a chance to let you know how much they appreciate the Constitution and the work of the Founding Fathers.

Part two is on YouTube where you can find the ECMNooz channel as well.  ECMNooz gets a permanent home on East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day.  There’s a sneak preview of the channel below.  ECMNooz will appear in posts sometimes as well.

Also next week more ways you, as citizen or business, may contribute.

James Rowe

Curator

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Another Sneak Preview ECMNooz YouTube Channel

Memorial Day East Central Massachusetts News brings you the ECMNooz YouTube channel.  It’s associated with ECM News and where you can enjoy and view a lot of stories presented here.  This is ECMNooz below.

The collection of videos presented on East Central Massachusetts News via ECMNooz will vary.  The videos there now are a collection of multimedia reports on ECM News.  Getting confused.  ECMNooz is YouTube video and ECM News is this site where ECMNooz will appear permanently on Memorial Day and will from time to time appear in posts in this position and others.

Also coming Monday are new ways you can contribute as a citizen and business in East Central Massachusetts.

Join the discourse citizen and click on the comments link below.

James Rowe

Curator

eacemass@gmail.com

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Barbecue Spaghetti

I bet you’re say “WHAT!!!”  It’s definitely an Arkansas and Tennessee delicacy to be introduced to the rest of the world.

After a day of reporting like this it’s time to bring out the Neely Family of Memphis and let them introduce ECM Country to Barbecue Spaghetti.

A different dish to think about as you prepare a Memorial Day menu.  ECMNooz is our YouTube channel where you can see a lot of Memphis’ Neely’s and citizens from East Central Massachusetts.  ECMNooz takes a post and a permanent place on East Central Massachusetts News next.  We bring you more ways to be a citizen, enjoy and contribute next week.

James Rowe

Curator

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Community Forums in ECM Country

Three of Governor Deval Patrick’s Community Forums  held this evening 6:30P EDT in three locations:

• Fitchburg
• Pepperell
• Lexington

The meetings offer a chance to practice citizenship. 

Governor Patrick in the video clip below calls this the most serious economic challenge yet.

 

Video courtesy of Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s Office

You can join the debate and click on the comments link below.  Videos like the Governor’s explanation show on ECMNooz round the clock.  The YouTube Channel comes to East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day.  Ways to contribute and be a citizen come next week too.

James Rowe

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Remember the Less Fortunate

Citizenship requires attention to those who have less.  As we plan for Memorial Day in its true meaning and the official start of summer be mindful of those who have no choices.  Lowell, MA is in ECM Country.

Lowell is the fourth largest city in the Bay State and strategically located near I-93 and I-495.  The Lowell National Park marks the city’s contribution to the Industrial Revolution.

Just a 40-minute rail commute from Boston and Lowell has marked significant growth and change in years past.

This YouTube video of a homeless camp near Lowell, however, reminds how the current economy affects all there is to boast about.

So remember as we gripe and prepare for a Memorial Day weekend there are those who would love such an opportunity.

Monday, ECMNooz, our YouTube channel, featuring videos like the one in this post will become a permanent part of East Central Massachusetts News and compliment our posts.

You can join the discourse with photos, stories, videos and comments – just click the comments link below.

More ways to contribute coming next week as well.

James Rowe

Curator

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Help Friends of Shirley, MA Hazen Memorial Library

 Friends of the Hazen Memorial Library meet as usual tomorrow evening at 3 Keady Way at 6:30P EDT.   Here’s a quick clip of a recent Mother’s Day (May 9, 2009) event with performer Rita Parisi at the library.  You’ll get an idea of how well attended the event was in this quick spin around the room.

The Friend’s annual membership drive is underway and you can download a form to join at the link below.

FriendsHazenLibraryContrib.pdf

Print out the form and mail in your membership and payment.    
Stay involved with the conversation citizen.  The comments link below always awaits your interactivity.

ECMNooz, YouTube channel, comes to East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day and so does a way for you to contribute.

James Rowe
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Dr. Gerry Dembrowski

The good doctor has thrown his hat in the Massachusetts 2010 gubernatorial race early.   Here’s part one of his five part introduction of himself on YouTube today.

What say you about Dembrowski?   Comments link below is for your reply.

Join the discourse citizens.

ECMNooz, our YouTube channel, comes to East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day.   We’ll present ways you can contribute citizen as well.

James Rowe

Curator

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The Pulse of Manufacturing

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers meets just outside East Central Massachusetts in West Springfield.  They bill the confab as the largest annual manufacturing event on the East Coast and Governor Patrick used social media to welcome the EASTEC meeting.

Get involved citizen.  Click on the comments link below and practice citizenship.

Coming Memorial Day ECMNooz, our YouTube channel, featuring videos and other fun stuff.   Also next week how to get involved in ECM citizenship.

James Rowe

Curator

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We the People

As you prepare for community meetings across East Central Massachusetts consider how grass roots citizens formed in Tyler, TX last month.

Let’s get involved citizens.  You can click on the comments link below and express yourself immediately. 

The above video and others will be featured on the launch of ECMNooz, our YouTube channel, on East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day.  Coming next week – how business and citizen can contribute.

James Rowe

Curator

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Mass Gov Misses Grassroots Meeting

Massachusetts’ Governor Deval Patrick’s staff has been unable to complete a schedule of community forums taking them across the Bay State and until the end of the month.

There are three Community Forums in ECM Country tomorrow evening at 6:30P EDT:

• Fitchburg State College in the Newman Center,160 Pearl Street, Fitchburg, MA
• Clark Middle School in the auditorium, 17 Stedman Road, Lexington, MA
• Nissitissit Middle School, 33 Chace Avenue, Pepperell, MA

Email this address grassroots.governance@state.ma.us for information on any Community Forums.  Gov. Patrick was unable to fit tomorrow’s meetings in his schedule and  he missed another grassroots confab a few days ago.

We’ll hear more from the state’s first citizen in later posts. 

You have the schedule of forums.  Get involved by attending the meetings or clicking on the comments below and let us know how you plan to be a better citizen.

ECMNooz, YouTube channel comes to East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day.   Look for sneak preview this week.

And a new way to contribute comes Monday as well.

James Rowe

Curator

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Together for Recovery

These are times that require citizenship, neighbors having concern for neighbors.   The United States Chamber of Commerce, a fraternal association of businesses, establishes the Business Civic Leadership Center, quoting their web site, as “the U.S. Chamber's resource and voice for businesses and their social and philanthropic interests.”

The tag line at the chamber’s TOGETHER FOR RECOVERY.ORG site reads “Business is part of the solution.”  BCLC Executive Director Stephen Jordan talks about TOGETHER FOR RECOVERY.

The link Jordan mentions in the video is the chamber’s “Business Offerings and Resources for Individuals and Communities.”  The site is packed with resources.  Let’s use them citizen.

In open disclosure, East Central Massachusetts News is provided by Rowe and Company, LLC of Newton, MA and R&C is a member of the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce.

Memorial Day, ECMNooz comes to ECM country.  ECMNooz is East Central Massachusetts News’ YouTube channel, where you can see videos presented here.

Join the discourse citizen and click the comments link below. We’ll have more ways you can contribute next week.

James Rowe

Curator

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History Meets in Shirley, MA

Shirley, Massachusetts Historical Commission meets at 6:30P EDT tonight, May 19th.  It’s their regularly scheduled gathering at Town Hall.

The Shirley Historical Society Museum, opened on Mondays and Saturdays 10A to 1P, appears gearing up for summer like the rest of ECM Country.  First event is Sunday May 24th – Shirley’s Memorial Day Observances - 9:30A, Ecumenical Service at First Parish Meetinghouse. 

Members of the American Legion are expected to visit town cemeteries and lay wreaths following the morning service. Speeches scheduled in the Center - 2:00P. 

The parade is set to kick off in Shirley Village and go to Whitely Park.

Labeled “Most Historic Small Town in the Nation” by Podunk, you can click here to find the schedule of summer and fall events the Historical Society lists.

Coming to East Central Massachusetts News Memorial Day is ECMNooz, our YouTube video channel.   ECMNooz will present topical, how to,travelogue and fun information in multimedia format.

Also coming on the holiday will be a way business and citizen get involved in ECM Country.

James Rowe

Curator

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Shirley MA Meetings

Shirley, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen meet this evening at 7P EDT.  The meeting convenes at the Town Hall, 7 Keady Way with newly elected Selectwoman Kendra L. Dumont.  The Board of Health meets just before the selectmen; 6:30P EDT.

 

The Shirley Historical Society meets Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30P EDT.

The towns annual meeting comes June 8th so you might want to read the Town of Shirley Annual Report for 2008 in preparation.

Next week East Central Massachusetts News introduces its YouTube channel ECMNooz.  Watch for sneak previews this week.  Coming next week as well announcement of how to get involved be you citizen or business/citizen.

James Rowe

Curator

eacemass@gmail.com

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ECM Country Civics

East Central Massachusetts News is your home for citizenship.  From time to time we’ll present information we find to advance United States citizenship and your participation.

As we prepare for summer and Memorial Day let us be mindful of the liberties we celebrate and how we maintain them. 

Here is over an hour of Dr. Gordon Wood speaking over a year ago at the Pioneer Institute.  The event was co-sponsored by Boston University.

ECM News brings information from cyberspace and East Central Massachusetts cities and towns. 

Next week look for ECMNooz, our YouTube channel and more on how everyone can get involved in citizenship.

James Rowe

Curator

eacemass@gmail.com

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Getting Ready for Summer

Are you ready for summer?  Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the warm season, is less than one week away and if you’re planning New England Cable News started the week off with Louise Sacco  from Frugal Yankee.  She has advice on how to enjoy the holiday.

The Food Channel’s Neely Family from Tennessee has some tips on handling the Que and the grill this summer.

Tell us about your Memorial Day plans or put a question to us so we can go hunting for help.  Click on the comments link below and join the conversation.

Coming next week is ECMNooz, ECM News’ YouTube video channel and another way ECM country can further grow their citizenship.

Pass the word around and get your community involved in living the American life.

James Rowe

Curator

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