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“Moments you never forget” – Marty Meehan
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Christmas 2012, Market Basket Parking Lot
Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »“Roots of an Urban Cultural Park”
The following video, “Roots of an Urban Cultural Park”, was produced in 1991 by Lowell’s Human Services Corporation to tell the back story of the Lowell National Historical Park and the Lowell Heritage State Park. Featured in the video are Pat Mogan, Marie Sweeney, the late Peter Stamas, the late…
Read More »City of Lights parade
Here’s some video from last night’s City of Lights parade. It features the Lowell High marching band, Lowell High cheerleaders and JROTC, and the UMass Lowell marching band. [youtube]KoBh_MTFoMU[/youtube]
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the recent election: It has been a good few weeks. In the first place, we (Democrats, or the American People, or some group), won. Three weeks before the election, I walked into the Tsongas Headquarters and told a few of the people…
Read More »Hot Chocolate Competition
Downtown Lowell was alive this afternoon as hundreds of people traveled to the five establishments that were participating the this year’s Hot Chocolate Competition. At each place, you exchanged a quarter for a 4-ounce Dixie cup filled with hot chocolate. One was served plain, another gave you a choice of…
Read More »Construction of UML South Campus Parking Garage
Photos by Tony Sampas. From the UMass Lowell website: The South Campus garage will provide parking spaces for 762 cars on South Campus. Tucked between Mahoney Hall and Riverview Parking Lot, the garage will be conveniently located to all South Campus facilities. The six-and-one-half level open-parking facility is a 191,000-square-foot…
Read More »“Lincoln” movie review
Taking advantage of an early Thanksgiving dinner with family and a late Patriots game, we ventured to Tyngsboro for a 3:50 pm screening of Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s new film about our 16th President. If you have any interest in American history or politics, you will immediately judge the movie a…
Read More »President Obama in Cambodia
With a large part of Lowell’s population either from Cambodia or of Cambodian descent, we should pay particular attention to the first-ever visit to Cambodia by a sitting U.S. President. Here are some stories about the visit from that region’s media: From the Phnomh Penh Post: “Obama’s meeting with Cambodia’s…
Read More »Bread & Roses performance in Lawrence this Friday
Teatro Del Loto Performs Arturo Giovannitti’s “The Walker” When: Friday, November 23, 2012, 7:00pm.; doors open at 6:30pm Where: Everett Mills ? 15 South Union Street, 6th floor, Lawrence, MA. One night only! Straight from performances at Yale University and City College in New York, an extraordinary play will make…
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