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In the Merrimack Valley: Steward/Caritas to Lowell?

There’s a report in today’s Boston Globe that there is a tentative agreement in place for the Steward Health Care System that recently purchased the Caritas hospital system to acquire Saints Medical Center in Lowell. For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, with community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expected…

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Reminder for Tomorrow March 27th: LHS Civil War Program at NPS Visitors’ Center

The Lowell Historical Society’s  “Lowell and the Civil War” presentation with Dick Howe as the guest speaker is tomorrow morning at 11:30am  at the Lowell National Historical Park’s Visitors’ Center at 246 Market Street. Repost: Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond  Richard P. Howe Jr.,…

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Schedule for Redistricting Hearings

Current Congressional Legislative Districts from the Special Joint Committee Website In the continued effort to get local citizen input, the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting has posted additional hearing dates and sites on the SJCR website. This is a list of the hearings schedule to date: — Saturday, March 26, 10…

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All Politics Really Is Local and According to Glen Johnson “Awesome”

Don’t miss Boston Globe Politics Editor Glen Johnson’ s piece on the “Political Intelligence” page today. The Lowell references and the flurry of local town and city elections should pique our Merrimack Valley interest. Glen Johnson spent some years toiling at the Lowell SUN – so he knows only too well of which…

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