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George HW Bush Remembered In Massachusetts, His Home State

Presidents USA

   President George H.W. Bush had a lot of connections to New England.  He was born in Milton, Massachusetts, grew up in Connecticut, and spent almost every summer of his life in Kennebunkport, Maine.

    There are several prominent politicians and government officials in the region who got their start in politics working for Bush.    

    One of them is Bruce Stebbins, a Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner and former Springfield City Councilor.    

   Stebbins, who is in Washington for tomorrow’s state funeral for the 41st president, spoke a short time ago with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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