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Grew up in a small, sports-obsessed town in Central Massachusetts and attended three local colleges in five years, eventually graduating Framingham State with an English degree in 2007.  According to a letter to my future self -- penned as an eighth-grader -- I've long had dreams of becoming a sports journalist. But I didn't really do anything about it until my third semester at FSC (now U). That's when my professor (thanks, Desmond) convinced me to quit messing around in nonsense classes, join the school paper and get an internship. I did.  I was hired out of college to the Bedford Minuteman newspaper, and bounced around to a few of the Minuteman's sister papers, including The Concord Journal and Belmont Citizen-Herald, before joining Patch in April 2011 as Lexington's editor.

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In Concord, A Call To Farm

The town is requesting proposals for leasing the McGrath farmstead, a historic town-owned parcel available at a below-market rate as an incentive to promote local food production.

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What It Means to be 'Green'

Concord was one of 13 Massachusetts cities and towns to earn the designation of being a 'Green Community' on Wednesday. But what's does it mean to be Green? Well, money and bragging rights, to start.

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HGRM Lands Grant Funding

Household Goods Recycling of Massachusetts has reportedly received a grant from the Foundation for MetroWest.

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