Did somebody make an attempt on the life of Dean Mazzarella?

Did you see how a leominster resident “accidentally” drove her car into the back of Leominster’s city hall? I wonder if homeland security was notified. Maybe The Breakfast Sausage King of Leominster was trying to take Mayor Mazzarella out of the picture in an effort to take over the corner office. Unfortunately he hired a woman to do a man’s job and the plan was foiled when she drove into the wrong section of the building…

Don’t you know the best way to drive a car into Mayor Mazzarella’s office is by going up the front steps of City Hall and taking the first left?

Louise Doyle, Local Philanthropist, Passes away at 95

It’s like the end of a great novel…

Louise Doyle, 95, has passed away. She and her family have done more for the city of Leominster than anybody else and they did it because they wanted to. They didn’t do it for the recognition or the praise, simply for the good feeling they got from helping others.

I remember as a kid attempting to walk down the long driveway to the Doyle mansion on Lindell Ave just to turn and run for fear of the killer dogs, or the armed guards, or the spirits that all us kids were sure  guarded the overwhelming homestead…

What will become of the Doyle mansion and all of the property around it? Did she have a will? Is Dick O’Brien going to move in and make it his home? Maybe a museum???

I’m sure there isn’t a person in Leominster that isn’t curious about the inside of the most famous home in town. I’d love to go inside and sit in the study or the smoking room where Bernie Doyle once sat and pondered his next business venture or maybe sat and had a snifter of brandy with some of the other legends of the local industry.

I don’t even think Louise Doyle had any living relatives unless you consider her countless caretakers and close friends. These are the people that knew her best and will surely miss her most. Most of us just knew the name and the story but not the lady that she surely was…

God bless you Louise.