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Turning Back the Clock takes a look back at Reading's long and colorful history. Have you got something you would like to see profiled here? Let us know at a.jeromski@gmail.com.The Reading High boys and girls hockey teams began play last week, and while the winter season is sure to bring more than a few tense showdowns to the frozen surface of Burbank Ice Arena, below the skates of these scholastic athletes the scars of an entirely more sinister standoff lie nearly forgotten. In 1955, the area near Haverhill Street and what is today called Symonds Way would have been no place for games. Known as site B-03—in conjunction with the control site between Bear Hill Road and today's Gazebo Circle—it was an integral piece of the Boston Defense Area, and housed type MiM-3 …
