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The week began with the inaugural ceremonies for the city council and the school committee. Rodney Elliott was elected mayor unanimously. Tuesday brought the new council’s first regular meeting although much of the agenda was set back in December when three consecutive meetings were missed due to a snowstorm, Christmas…
Read More »Maxine Farkas shares some thoughts from Western Ave in Lowell: For some reason I have been thinking of John Greenwald a lot lately. Perhaps it is because we have grown so much in the past year and a half; there are more artists here now who never knew John than…
Read More »Property sales in Lowell for the week beginning January 6, 2014: January 6, 2014 – Monday 123 Methuen St for $255,000. Prior sale in 1969 1035 & 1045 Westford St for $2,850,000. (Curry Plumbing) 407-409 Moody St for $170,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $136,000 January 7, 2014 – Tuesday…
Read More »This morning I attended the monthly meeting of the Greater Lowell Area Democrats at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. Five Democratic candidates for statewide office were present and spoke to the forty or so people in attendance. Here are the notes I took during each of their remarks. Juliette Kayyem…
Read More »Chelmsford Selectman Matt Hanson gives us a brief overview of the Board of Selectmen meeting from January 6, 2014. Topics include public service announcements, one day beer & wine licenses, Board of Selectmen goals, budget discussions, Town Manager Reports and various other topics. [youtube]59S00ipmv1A[/youtube]
Read More »For many years now I’ve urged people to grab a video camera (or use their cell phone’s video camera) and just start shooting. You can’t create a video until you start recording video. One obstacle to doing that is deciding what to film. Often we lack faith in our ideas,…
Read More »On the first Wednesday in January in each of the past five years I’ve ventured to the south campus of UMass Lowell to speak with students in a Community Psychology class. The course runs “intersession” (i.e., between the fall and spring semesters) and meets for many hours on many consecutive…
Read More »Baraka was a playwright, poet, critic and political activist. He visited UMass Lowell on October 18, 2013 where he read, riffed, sang, and took questions from the audience in Room 222 of O’Leary Library. Photo and caption by Tony Sampas.
Read More »The recent publication of The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger brings much needed attention to a little known bit of civil disobedience by some anti-war activists back in 1971 that led to the discovery of systemic illegal surveillance and covert…
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