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Friday, December 21, 2012

Northborough Woman and Newtown Brother Set Up Endowment Fund

So moved by the Newtown shootings, Rick Haylon, set up an endowment fund, with help from his sister.

When Rick Haylon returned from the funeral of six-year-old Ben Wheeler, one of the shooting victims in the Newtown elementary school massacre, he was moved, like so many others, by not only the tragedy but the response. Trinity Church, which Newtown resident Haylon attends, was packed and overflowing for Wheeler's funeral, with some 150 people spilling out to the front lawn, standing throughout the two-hour service. "All of you, and friends from throughout our lives, have reached out to us with thoughts and prayers and offers to help," wrote Haylon to a list of friends following the service. "This has been so much appreciated. However, the urge to send food and teddy bears, while welcome now, will not address the very critical long-term …

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Dick's Removes Sporting Rifles From Stores

In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut last week, the sporting goods chain has decided to remove guns from stores.

Dick’s Sporting Goods has removed all “modern sporting rifles” from their stores nationwide as well as all guns from sale and display in its store nearest to Newtown, Conn., in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings last week. “We are extremely saddened by the unspeakable tragedy that occurred last week in Newtown, CT, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families, and to the entire community,” according to a company press release. “Out of respect for the victims and their families, during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in our store nearest to Newtown and suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all of our stores chainwide," the press release said. "We continue to extend …

Proud Resident of Northborough

10:55 am on Sunday, December 30, 2012

Not to wreck a good story, BUT...... I was in Dick's (Northboro) yesterday and they were selling both ammunition and firearms.   more ›

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