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Still No Answer On Why Explosions Occurred, and Many Merrimack Valley Residents Are Still Without Natural Gas

Matthew McDonald

Rumors are flying all over Lawrence, North Andover, and Andover about why dozens of damaging natural gas explosions occurred September 13, but residents still have no definitive answers.

Pressure in gas lines was 12 times more than it should have been, leading to the explosions, officials have said, but why it occurred a subject of intense conjecture, according to the Salem News.

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Arlo Guthrie Marking 50th Anniversary of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ With Concert in Lowell

Matthew McDonald

Singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie is marking the 50th anniversary of his most famous song and the movie it inspired with a concert tour that includes Lowell.

"Alice's Restaurant Massacree," a memorable 19-minute song recounting how a 1965 Thanksgiving Day littering incident in Stockbridge, Massachusetts helped Guthrie out of a jam a little later in life, was released in 1967 and led to a movie called Alice's Restaurant in 1969.

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