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A Valentine’s Wish for the Chair City and the Greater Gardner Area To Grow a Valentine Plant the seeds of abundant loveFlying down from an Eternal DoveA Plant in Bloom just once a yearThe Valentine with love so dear. Let us grow more ValentinesSo love brightly shinesUpon a landscape soContinue Reading

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Greater Gardner MA Celebrates Thanksgiving 2023 In the name of our Heavenly Father we Gather And say the praises of our Lord together, As we welcome the Goodness of the Holy Spirit Into the Hearts of all who will receive IT. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. May the blessingsContinue Reading

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A Salute to Veterans in Greater Gardner MA Veterans Of Service – By Werner Poegel Of service to our nation theyHead directly to harm’s way.Protecting Freedoms cherished,Many brethren have perished Those who wear the uniformGo in to an unknown storm.Danger lurks at every corner.All serve with great honor. While AmericansContinue Reading

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The Mayor of Gardner Massachusetts, Michael Nicholson is 29 on September 24, 2023. He has helped the City of Gardner become well-known across Massachusetts and the nation. Gardner has become a Model City for America. Editorial – Happy Birthday from Gardner MA to Mayor Mike To the Mayor of Twenty-NineWho’sContinue Reading

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Happy Easter to each and every one of you in the Greater Gardner MA area and beyond as we celebrate the JOY of history’s Greatest Gift! Dear Lord to Whom We Give our ThanksIn the hope many more will join the ranksOf those who know the love and the hopeandContinue Reading

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Presidents Day is Monday February 20, 2023 in Greater Gardner MA… School Vacation Week is February 20-24 Gardner City Hall and various Town Offices are closed on Monday, February 20th. Last year, we released Poem of the Presidents, CLICK HERE.Continue Reading

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Chair City of Heart Welcome to the Chair City of Heart,Community Spirit right from the start.Formed from Land Parcels Coming TogetherHome to proud people is Gardner forever. The love of its citizens shared with the regionWhich comes to Gardner for its cohesion.A spirit of teamwork had lead to success.Of whichContinue Reading

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Christmas Poem 2022 May the blessings of the season be yoursEven more joy than shopping the storesThe price of admission is always freeWhere the spirit of the Lord brings glee. Merry Christmas on National Christmas Card Day. May the sentiments you send bring joy to someone close to you.Continue Reading

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100th Christmas as a City Some time ago in lands we know around usA community became of once was just forest.The Europeans who settled just before the RevolutionQuite Quickly built homes and grew the population. Formed by land gifts of towns who are neighbors1785 – Gardner a town from theseContinue Reading

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Veterans Day, 2022 Freedom has a shelf life others wish to shorten,Sometimes its fragility is wantonly forgotten.Trappings of daily life so actively pursued,While warriors keep nation’s liberty renewed. Remembering one hundred and four years agoHostilities did cease with a World War One foe.Eleven hours, eleventh day, eleventh month.Armistice replaced theContinue Reading

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From the Publisher Werner Poegel: I wrote this poem to get one idea across to as many people as possible. While our nation was founded with many mistakes, our country has been one of the most successful experiments in the history of the World. However, its strength is derived fromContinue Reading

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Editorial: A Happy Birthday Wish to Gardner MA Mayor Michael Nicholson There was a Mayor of Gardner at age 28Who more than most would carry his weight.Often worked his tail off through the nightTo rid his Chair City of any blight. Bad Buildings were seen as impossible tasksBut Nicholson liftedContinue Reading

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The Sentient Soul of American Freedom original poem by Werner Poegel The Sentient Soul of American Freedom The sentient soul is only free amidst absolute equality.White, black, brown, or blue, every color of the rainbow too.Differences embraced as perfect creations of a loving God.Discrimination disgraced as perpetrating the ultimate fraud.Continue Reading

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Poem of the Presidents – February 20, 2022 in 50 Stanzas by Werner Poegel To honor United States of America Chief Executives,I present a series of 4 line Stanzas as poetic descriptives.One after the other each have chosen to serve,All natural born and to age 35 have achieved. Spanish-American WarContinue Reading

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Happy Valentine’s Day, Gardner MA To Gardner I send this ValentineChair City of the Heart of Mine.A Community of Diverse Progress.A Place of Tremendous Influence. To many who have lived here longGardner sings its own love song.To those who begin life her anewYou’ll find so much to say and do.Continue Reading

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A message from the Author: Gardner has always been a special place of cooperation leading to great accomplishments. It began from tracts of land from four communities – Ashburnham, Westminster, Templeton, and Winchendon. Gardner has had its tough times just like many other places. However, right now with a greatContinue Reading