Archive for October 5th, 2010

More Kerouac Festival Reporting

Today’s SUN includes an eloquently written article by Rita Savard about Jack Kerouac’s roots in Centralville, specifically St. Louis de France parish. She accompanied a group of people on a Sunday morning walking tour that was guided by the orginator of the tours of Kerouac literary sites, Roger Brunelle. He led four tours at this year’s Kerouac…

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Tuesday Trivia

Another installment of our Lowell trivia questions. The answers will be posted tomorrow. 6) What Lowell boxer represented the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games? 7) Which country’s national anthem was written by a person who lived in Lowell? 8) How many Roman Catholic churches in Lowell were originally…

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Is Caritas Deal Near – With Conditions?

The Globe is reporting in today’s edition that after some stormy weeks of negotiations, changes in funding, greater deficit and shortfall discoveries – that Caritas Christi Health Care buy out by the for-profit Cerberus Capital Management firm has been salvaged. The buy-out agreement is subject to a review and conditions imposed…

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