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Thanks to our friends at Wignall Animal Hospital for the email reminder that today is National Dog Biscuit Day. Ivy was more interested in eating the biscuits than posing for pictures with them, so we settled for a picture with her ball.
Read More »For decades the two political parties have engaged in parallel social contracts with workers and management: Come election time, unions support Democrats and the people who unions work for support Republicans. Legislatively, the two parties advocate the agendas of their respective constituencies. Since the 1980s, the Republican-management axis has been…
Read More »From Tony Sampas: Beneath the snow, etched in the stone is: “REMEMBER Don’t forget your roots. Dedicated October 27, 2001”
Read More »Move Lowell Forward, the local non-partisan political action committee, hosted a Planning and Development Forum featuring Assistant City Manager for Planning and Development Adam Baacke. Adam spent about 90 minutes reviewing and answering questions about many projects underway and planned in the city before a crowd of about 50. Here…
Read More »Thanks to Guy Lefebvre of the Lowell Gallery who sent along this print of the July 8, 1865 Harper’s Weekly which shows a story about the dedication of the Ladd & Whitney Monument in Lowell. Luther Ladd and Addison Whitney were two young mill workers from Lowell who were killed…
Read More »Some abstract art from Tony Sampas. This photo shows the spire of the First Congregational Church/Smith Baker Center, as seen through the granite columns of the Pollard Memorial Library.
Read More »With warm weather forecast for the next few days and spring training underway in Florida, Steve O’Connor shares a baseball story: I have a cousin several years my junior named Michael Stirk who moved to Chicago after college. I rarely see him, since Chicago is way past Worcester, and since…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares these street scenes of Lowell
Read More »Last night I traveled to the Needham Public Library to hear Chaim “Mike” Rosenberg talk about his new book, “The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817.” Lowell is the man for whom our city is named, although he died (at age 42) before the city was even founded.…
Read More »Monday night I watched the very exciting 2011 Beanpot final on TV. Boston College defeated Northeastern in overtime by a score of 7-6. While the consolation game earlier that evening wasn’t televised, someone who was there told me that was a fantastic game as well, with Harvard beating Boston University…
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