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The Sox got the message. After making decisions that led to the breakup of the 2004 champs, like letting Pedro (which we grudgingly understood) and Johnny Damon (hey, how's that working out for you anyway, Johnny?) leave, Sox fans stood as one and declared that if they didn't bring back World Series MVP, great fielding, clutch hitting, hard working, popular Mike Lowell, we'd...be pretty unhappy. So Mike Lowell will be right where he belongs next...

Every town and city seems to hang on to their home-grown celebrities. Boston's got those we're proud to call Bostonians and those we'd rather dismiss. Lawrence, Mass. is home to Godsmack front man Sully Erna. The key to the city is symbolic these days, it really doesn't open any locks. Theoretically it gives you an "in" however. The bloggers at AOL's music blog reported earlier this month on the ceremony:

Erna, who spent his formative years in the Merrimack Valley town, was presented the key -- which he resisted using to key the pickup trucks of those guys who tormented him in high school -- at a ceremony on Tuesday [January 16]. Erna got all teary-eyed when accepting the award -- an honor that was arranged by Lawrence City Councilman Nunzio DiMarca, who reminisced that "[even] when he was washing dishes at my brother's restaurant, he's always been a very polished young man."

These nice words from a hometown city who the singer himself described on the website for his soon-to-be-released memoirs The Paths We Choose as

I remember [Lawrence] was full of murderers, thieves, and rapists—and half the time those people were your next-door neighbors,” Sully writes of his childhood hometown in the tough Boston suburb. He goes on to tell matter-of-fact tales of flying bullets, grade-school pot smoking, an outrageous seven-hour police chase, and much more.

Tune in during 2012 when Staind's singer Aaron Lewis gets the key to Longmeadow.

Bostonist has listened to the high school students rapping safe haven for weeks. An article in the Dig showed up a little while after the ads started to catch on more than we would like. The Safe Haven Law passed last October has finally made the first baby safe under the new act. An infant was dropped off at a hospital in the Merrimack Valley. The hospital’s name is undisclosed, as is the mother’s and father’s, and now the foster parents identities. The Dig article reported that the safe haven ads were actually taking hold. According to the Department of Social Services 60 percent of the target demographic is aware of the safe haven law and 90 percent of those clearly understood what it meant. Promising, seeing that in Louisiana, where a month ago, an infant was found dead in the trunk of her mother’s car—and yes, Louisiana does have a similar baby safe haven law.