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A veteran battles back
When he was 17 years old, Willmont (Bill) Griffin dropped out of high school and joined the Marines. Two years later, he was on a helicopter, a CH-53, just before Saigon fell and he pulled terrified people onboard and saw the end of a war and grew up pretty quick.
The problem with normal
Over the years, 27-year-old Phil Jackson had been arrested quite a few times. Once, last April, it was for carrying a gun. Another time it was for having a piece of body armor, something he really could have used just before noon on Tuesday.
Taking shots in Revere
Let’s be honest: For all the hype, the mayor’s race in Boston has been one giant snoozefest.
Brotherly hate for N.Y.
Normally, the only people around here with more than a passing interest in a World Series that doesn’t involve the Red Sox are the handful of serious fans who genuinely love the game and the legions of degenerate gamblers who are genuinely the only reason the local Mafia hasn’t filed for Chapter 11.
Preexisting conditional
Art and Sallie Cote have watched from the couch in their Salem apartment as lawmakers in Washington debate health care, and they have one question: What planet are these people on?
Epilogue for a lost Marine
Billy Lynch left Dorchester 72 years ago, and they’re pretty sure they’ve finally found him, a long way from home, deep in the ground in China.
Airing the laundry
It started as an academic exercise, which is not surprising, because James Smith is a professor of English at Boston College. It has become a cause, a quest, a rickety bridge between the country of his birth and the place he now calls home.
Mad about Medford
A lady named Joyce Purnick has written a biography of Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of New York who grew up in Medford, and given that Bloomberg cooperated with her, we can assume all those nice things he’s said about Meffa were strictly for local consumption.