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This Monday night from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Wang Middle School at 365 West Meadow Road, the Lowell Citywide Neighborhood Council will present its third City Council candidate forum. The topic for this gathering will be “Finances, Taxes & the Budget.” Nothing beats seeing the candidates in…
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Read More »Here’s the audio of Lowell City Council candidate Fred Doyle’s radio broadcast of earlier today: [youtube]zVudPvnOp9E[/youtube] As much as his verbal jabs seem unusual in today’s political environment, this is nothing new for Fred as you can judge for yourself by listening to THIS vintage broadcast from an earlier era.
Read More »The UMass Lowell building boom includes South Campus at Broadway and Wilder. Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Maybe the Globe sports section is following the lead of the Red Sox and cleaning house. Somebody named Matt Pepin is now writing about the Red Sox but that’s not a bad thing because he has a great account of Terry Francona’s final press conference. Whatever you think of Francona,…
Read More »The annual Lowell Open Studios event will take place this Saturday and Sunday from 11 am until 5 pm each day at various venues around the city. Open Studios is a great opportunity to check out the local art scene and to support the artists working in our community. Almost…
Read More »Back during the summer, there was confusion about the dates of this fall’s tours of Lowell Cemetery. One set of tours were originally set for today and tomorrow (Sept 30 and October 1) but that quickly had to be changed because of circumstances beyond my control. Even though all advertising…
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Read More »Mass Moments, the daily dose of Massachusetts History tells us that today is the birthday of Henry Hobson Richardson, one of the most important and influential architects in American history. Richardson was born in Louisiana in 1838, studied in Paris, did much of his work in Boston, and died in…
Read More »From the beginning I didn’t have a good feeling about this Red Sox season. Perhaps the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup in the spring sucked up all my pro sports enthusiasm. The additions to the team seemed sound – Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford – and the talk early on…
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