Jul. 20, 2018
[Editor's note: The printed copy of July 20 issue of The Yankee Xpress has incorrect information about the date of the upcoming production of Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It. The correct date is August 16.]
By Janet Stoica
Carole Marchand, Webster’s new part-time recreation director, has a lot on her agenda for the benefit of Webster’s residents--not only for the summer but for all year round.
The Summer... Read More
Jul. 20, 2018
By Kevin Rudden
“October 25, 1962: Captain Jerry McIlmoyle sat in the cramped cockpit of his U-2 spy plane on the runway at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida.”
With that opening line, Mendon author Michael Tougias and co-author Casey Sherman begin to focus on three men who played a key role in a situation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union – then deep in the Cold War – to the brink... Read More
Jul. 20, 2018
By Rod Lee
Recent defeat of an article that would have expanded Uxbridge’s historic district leaves members of the commission that proposed the bylaw change pondering what their “next steps” should be even as they lick the wounds inflicted by the stinging setback.
Complicating the plight of Faye McCloskey, who chairs the Uxbridge Historic District Commission (UHDC), and those associates of hers who support a redefinition of the... Read More
