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  • Endorsements – Awards – Recognition (9/2/2025)
    Endorsements – Awards – Recognition – with Gardner Mayor Michael Nicholson

  • Energy Landscape (8/31/2025)
    DEEP DIVE – U.S. Energy Landscape

  • Model City for America (8/31/2025)
    POP DUET – Model City for America

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  • Views of Gardner (8/30/2025)

  • Proud of Gardner (8/30/2025)

  • Hotline 8-30-25 (8/30/2025)
    Hotline Radio 8-30-25

  • Original Song – Workin’ Man (8/29/2025)
    BLUES ROCK – Workin’ Man

  • Bus Schedules 25-26 (8/29/2025)
  • Gardner Youth Center (8/29/2025)
    Gardner Youth Center Ribbon Cutting

  • Monthly Update 8-29-25 (8/29/2025)
    Mayor’s Monthly Update 8-29-25

  • This Week 8-29-25 (8/29/2025)
    This Week in the Chair City 8-29-25

  • Public Safety 8-28-25 (8/28/2025)
    Public Safety Committee 8-28-25

  • Finance Committee 8-27-25 (8/28/2025)
    Finance Committee 8-27-25

  • Appointments 8-26-25 (8/28/2025)
    Appointments Committee 8-26-25

  • Radio Play – The Evil Lab (8/28/2025)
    RADIO PLAY – The Evil Lab – The Lab of Lies

  • Library Strategic Plan (8/27/2025)
    DEEP DIVE – Levi Heywood Memorial Library Strategic Plan
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  • Stop for Bus (8/27/2025)
    DEEP DIVE – MA School Bus Law

  • Wood’s Ambulance (8/27/2025)
    Wood's Ambulance Swift Ride

  • Promises Kept 8-26-25 (8/26/2025)
    PROMISES KEPT – Mayor Michael Nicholson 8-26-25


  • Swap Shop (8/26/2025)
    Gardner Swap Shop

  • Conservation 8-25-25 (8/26/2025)
    Conservation Commission 8-25-25

  • Golf Commission (8/26/2025)
    Golf Commission 8-25-25

  • National Dog Day (8/26/2025)

  • Half the Crime – Original Song (8/25/2025)
    POP ROCK – Half the Crime
    POP – Half the Crime
    PIANO POP – Half the Crime
    POP FOLK – Half the Crime
    POP FUNK – Half the Crime

  • EDC 8-22-25 (8/25/2025)
    Economic Development Committee 8-22-25
    EDC 8-22-25

  • Gardner Crime Rate (8/24/2025)

  • Ashburnham Dog Attack (8/24/2025)
    Depiction of Dog Attack

  • Oktoberfest 2025 (8/23/2025)

  • Hotline 8-23-25 (8/23/2025)
    Hotline Radio 8-23-25

  • Original Song – Social Media Ditch (8/22/2025)
    POP ROCK – Social Media Ditch
    POP FUNK – Social Media Ditch
    ROCK – Social Media Ditch
    MODERN JAZZ – Social Media Ditch

  • Templeton Municipal Light (8/22/2025)
    DEEP DIVE -Templeton Water 8-22-25

  • Paving Update 8-22-25 (8/22/2025)

    Gardner Paving List

  • This Week 8-22-25 (8/22/2025)
    This Week in the Chair City 8-22-25
    This Week in the Chair City 8-22-25

  • Fire and Drought (8/21/2025)
    DEEP DIVE: Fire and Drought 8-20-25

  • Zoning 8-20-25 (8/20/2025)
    Zoning Board of Appeals 8-19-25
    Vote and Revote 8-29-25
    Colleen Laperriere before ZBA 8-29-25

  • North Star Family Services (8/20/2025)
    North Star Family Services – Interview with Jon Hogue 8-20-25

  • 25 Main Water (8/20/2025)

  • Accident Route 2 (8/20/2025)

  • Non-Profits Interview (8/19/2025)
    Non-Profits in Gardner
    Interview – Non-Profits in Gardner

  • Airport Deep Dive (8/19/2025)
    DEEP DIVE – The Gardner Airport

  • City Council 8-18-25 (8/19/2025)
    DEEP DIVE – Gardner Salary Showdown
    Gardner City Council 8-19-25

  • Child in Car (8/19/2025)

  • Beaches 8-18-25 (8/18/2025)

  • Back to School (8/17/2025)
    POP ROCK – Back to School


  • Gardner Museum Fall 2025 (8/17/2025)
    Gardner Museum Fall Lecture Series 2025

  • Weather Center Upgrade (8/17/2025)
    Greater Gardner Weather Center

  • Gardner Brain Drain (8/16/2025)
    The Gardner Brain Drain – Keeping Key Employees

  • Basic City Services (8/16/2025)
    Basic City Services
    Basic City Services, – Interview with Gardner Mayor Michael Nicholson

  • Hotline 8-16-25 (8/16/2025)
    Hotline Radio 8-16-25

  • Lab of Lies (8/15/2025)
    Lab of Lies

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Word of the Day

domesticate

Definition: Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.
Synonyms: tame, cultivate, naturalize

Article of the Day

Daily Grammar Lesson

Idiom of the Day

penguin suit

slang A man’s formal evening wear, i.e., a tuxedo.

This Day in History

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Today’s Holiday

Marlboro Music Festival

It was the noted violinist Adolf Busch who came up with the idea of establishing a community for musicians that would free them from the pressures and restrictions of concert life. Every summer since 1951, artists from all over the world have gathered in Marlboro, Vermont, to exchange musical ideas. The Marlboro Music School, which holds an eight-week session each summer, is primarily a place where students can study contemporary and classical chamber music. During the festival, the general public has an opportunity to hear the results of their collaborations. More…

Quote of the Day
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because he that would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, will convince others the more as he appears convinced himself.
Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745)

Word Trivia

Today’s topic: revolution

gyre – A circular movement or revolution; to cause to spin around or whirl. More…

rebellion, revolution – Rebellion is open resistance to a government or authority; revolution is a rebellion that succeeds in overthrowing the government and establishing a new one. More…

rev – An abbreviation of revolution. More…

young Turk – Term for a tyrannical or unmanageable man, based on the members of a party of Turkish agitators that brought about the revolution of 1908. More…


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