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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony

Here are some photos from today’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony held by the Greater Lowell Veteran’s Council this morning at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.  Mayor Rodney Elliott and State Representative Colleen Garry offered remarks during the ceremony in the Hall of Flags.  Also in attendance were State Representative Dave Nangle…

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Lowell Week in Review: December 7, 2014

Lowell Social Media Conference Thanks to all who attended yesterday’s 2nd annual Lowell Social Media Conference at LTC.  We had some great presentations and plenty of audience participation.  The 3rd annual Social Media Conference will be held on the first Saturday in December next year (which happens to be December…

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2nd Annual Lowell Social Media Conference a great success

Thanks to everyone who attended today’s Lowell Social Media Conference.  With 61 names on the sign-in sheet, our audience grew considerably in size this year.  Thanks especially to Lowell Telecommunications Corp which co-sponsored and ably hosted the event, especially Gloria Polites and Steve Brogan.  An intern from LTC video recorded…

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Technology in Education

One of the presenters at this week’s Massachusetts Digital Government Summit was Mark Racine, the Chief Information Officer of the Boston Public Schools (and a former 5th grade teacher.  The title of his talk was Education Technologies Today and Tomorrow and my notes on his remarks are below. Yesterday I…

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Lowell City Council meeting: December 2, 2014

Number of votes including one accepting a $1.6 million grant from the Federal government for expansion of the trolley system.  Craig Thomas from DPD gives an update.  One expansion will run from downtown through Hamilton Canal District to the Gallagher Terminal.  The second expansion will connect the North and South…

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“Oh, Those Stones” by Jim Peters

Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares the following on some Lowell history: I have been asked to  write my meanderings on something other than my meanderings, so I took them at their word and am writing about the meanderings of three, not well-known, souls who once meandered through Lowell before dying.…

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Lowell Week in Review: November 30, 2014

With no council meeting, the first snowstorm of the season, and Thanksgiving, this was a quiet week politically so with the 2nd annual Lowell Social Media Conference just a week away, I figured I’d spend this morning reviewing some of our past gatherings. 2nd Annual Lowell Social Media Conference this…

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