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The Boston Globe and the Herald are both reporting that Robert Caret – president of Towson University in suburban Baltimore – has been chosen unanimously by the Board of Trustees as the new President of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. Caret has New England connections – he received degrees at…
Read More »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…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured up Lewis Street after the snow had stopped
Read More »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…
Read More »The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, contributes the following column The state of Massachusetts bucked the national trend in the 2010 elections. While most states were trending “red,” Massachusetts preserved its’ “blue”…
Read More »Tony Sampas observes that being deemed “non-essential” has some benefits: you can stay home and take great photographs of the snow through the window of your home.
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