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With clippers and a comb, she was a small-town soul

For 35 years, from her post at Eric’s Barber Shop in downtown Camden, Julie Drinkwater Landwehr was the unofficial chronicler of life in her hometown.

The Argument: Should Massachusetts remove criminal penalties for prostitutes?

Read two views and vote in our online poll.

No guest too big, or small, for Groton’s own talk show host

From a former governor to a local music star to a police dog, Jane Alpert Bouvier has interviewed them all.

A Founding Fathers fight on the North Shore

On the North Shore, four communities claim to be a nexus where brave citizens first organized into fighting units that later evolved into branches of the US military.

CATCHING UP WITH . . .Tom Haggerty took his game to new heights at Brandeis
The 6-foot-9 Watertown native remains the only Brandeis player to net 1,000 career points and rebounds.

CAMPUS ANGLELynn’s Jalen Echevarria has been an energizing freshman on Endicott court
The St. Mary’s grad is a five-time conference Rookie of the Week for the Gulls, ranked 21st in Division 3.

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NOTEWORTHY

GlobeLocal: Noteworthy performances

Oliver Ames and Bentley grad Lauren Battista has been named the Division 2 East Regional Player of the Decade for women’s basketball.

Hingham’s deteriorated municipal pool won’t open this summer

The municipal pool at the town-owned South Shore Country Club in Hingham won’t open this summer — and a replacement pool won’t be ready until 2022 at the earliest.

Daughter of Holocaust survivors built program that has helped over 10,500 American immigrants

Diane Portnoy, 73, is founder and CEO of the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden.

In Newtonville, City Council campaigns were a protracted, and pricey, neighborhood affair

Six candidates for City Council seats in Ward 2 drew about $144,000. That's nearly half of the $322,000 raised in individual donations in council races during last year's election cycle.

BRAINTREE

Tax increase will be on Braintree’s ballot

Braintree residents will decide in March whether to temporarily raise property taxes to pay for construction of a new South Middle School, new roofs at six other schools, and other measures.

BLOTTER TALES

Police find a van packed with donated clothes

A victim of a scam drinks his sorrows away, a husband receives an alarming text message from his wife, and other odd tales from local police blotters.

FRAMINGHAM

Framingham State announces speakers in upcoming Voices of Color series

Framingham State University recently announced the three speakers it is featuring in year’s Olivia A. Davidson Voices of Color lecture series.

ARLINGTON

Arlington launches three-pronged planning effort

Arlington recently launched three separate planning efforts that were awarded funds by Town Meeting in 2019, addressing economic, residential, and transportation issues.