RIP Mary Boutselis Sampas

This message and comment on the late Mary Boutselis Sampas was written by our friend Mehmed Ali. With his permission it is reprinted here:  Brother Tony, I heard that our own Gal Friday Mary Boutselis Sampas passed away yesterday. Last time I was home in October we had a chance to…

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State Senator Barry Finegold: “Pull the Personal Out Of Political Debate”

 Massachusetts  State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) / Second Essex Middlesex District Merrimack Valley State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) who represents the Second Essex Middlesex District wrote a column for today’s Eagle-Tribune. In the face of the Tuscon tragedy of last weekend he urges all of us to “to take a step back…

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Mary Sampas Remembered

Mary Sampas – longtime Lowell Sun reporter and columnist and the grand dame among friends and her community – died yesterday at Saints Medical Center at the age of 93. Friend and Sun associate Nancye Tuttle remembers her here on her blog – Nancye’s World. The Sun has a front page story…

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No school in Lowell on Thursday

With the twenty inches of snow – shown in these pictures shared by regular reader Paul S – that fell on Lowell just ending at around dusk, the school department wisely canceled school for tomorrow. I had to take the car out twice today – once late in the afternoon…

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