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  • Lexington, MA

Grew up in a small, sports-obsessed town in Central Massachusetts and attended three local colleges in five years, eventually graduating Framingham State with an English degree in 2007.  According to a letter to my future self -- penned as an eighth-grader -- I've long had dreams of becoming a sports journalist. But I didn't really do anything about it until my third semester at FSC (now U). That's when my professor (thanks, Desmond) convinced me to quit messing around in nonsense classes, join the school paper and get an internship. I did.  I was hired out of college to the Bedford Minuteman newspaper, and bounced around to a few of the Minuteman's sister papers, including The Concord Journal and Belmont Citizen-Herald, before joining Patch in April 2011 as Lexington's editor.

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Post Your Yard Sales for Free on Patch

Fill out this easy form and Patch will build an interactive map of garage sales, yard sales and estate sales. Share the details of what exactly you have for sale in the form!

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How Your Kid’s Back-to-School Haircut Can Help Others

The Hair Cuttery salon in Lexington is in the middle of a month-long ‘Buy One, Give One’ program that donates free haircuts to disadvantage children in the local community.

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From ‘Farmageddon’ to Farm-to-Table

Some of the same concepts that inspired Kristin Canty’s documentary film could find their way into the restaurant she and her husband, Jim, hope to open in West Concord.

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