[CPEO-MEF] Devens "survivors" advise Hanscom defenders (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Closure isn't the end
Those who lived through Fort Devens' final days offer advice for Hanscom supporters

By PETER WARD
Lowell Sun (MA)
February 28, 2005

There's life after a U.S. military base closes. 

That's the advice people who fought to save Fort Devens in the 1990s
have for those striving to keep Hanscom Air Force Base off the
Pentagon's dreaded hit list. 

?All efforts should go into saving the base, but don't overlook other
possibilities,? said Ed Kelley, owner of Kelley Hallmark, a card store
on Ayer's Main Street. 

People in Ayer, Shirley and Harvard believed that when the Army closed
Devens, it would kill the local economy. But things have changed in the
years since then -- and some believe for the better. 

The three base towns will likely vote next year on whether the property
will revert to the towns or become the state's newest 352nd
municipality. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_2589507

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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