The editorial in today’s Boston Globe addresses the process for choosing the next President of the University of Massachusetts system. Charging that procedures of the past smack of at least the perception of manipulation, the editorial touts what purports to be a different approach to replacing retiring President Jack Wilson.…
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Today’s Lowell Sun reports that former city manager Joe Tully and local real estate owner/WCAP Saturday morning show regular Tom Byrne have both received “target letters” from the US Attorney’s office as part of an ongoing Federal probe. The Sun story also reports that state representatives Dave Nangle and Kevin…
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Tony Sampas share more photos of Lowell City Hall, these two of some of the fine architectural details most of us – OK, me – fail to notice despite passing by and through the building hundreds of times. Tony also passed along the following from the Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory…
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Alan Lightman of MIT, the author of the best-selling “Einstein’s Dreams” and other works will read from “Mr. g: A Novel about the Creation” on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 3.30 pm, in Alumni Hall, One University Avenue, on the North Campus of UMass Lowell. Last May, Lightman received an honorary…
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I was in Boston yesterday for the fall meeting of the Governor’s Creative Economy Council. I’ll report on that in a later post, but want to mention that I passed by the Museum of Fine Arts and saw the red cloths covering the newly inscribed stones on either side of…
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Tony Sampas climbed to the top floor of the Saints Memorial Medical Center parking garage to capture this picture of City Hall as part of this Lowell cityscape.
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With all the news about the rediscovery of invaluable artifacts and documents in the attic of Lowell City Hall, Tony Sampas shared some photos of the building.
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No, this is not Brew’d Awakening on Market Street on a Thursday night. It’s Syria. The NTimes online today has a lead story on a literary freedom outpost in Damascas, where poets and writers stand up and speak freely at the House of Poetry, where the posters on the wall…
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Acclaimed author Russell Banks will talk about Jack Kerouac and read from his own fiction on Thursday, Sept. 30, 7 pm, at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. His novels include “Continental Drift,” “Affliction,” “Cloudsplitter,” and “The Reserve.” A book-signing will follow. Admission is free for students and seniors;…
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Kevin Landrigan is a Nashua Telegraph columnist. His column appears in the Sunday paper. He is described by the paper’s website as “The Telegraph’s Eyes and Ears in Concord.” Former Lowell Sun staffer Kevin Landrigan is one of my favorite Sunday reads in the Nashua Telegraph. For many years now…
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