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After losing power for five days after last Halloween’s snowstorm, I vowed to get a generator before the next major weather event. I procrastinated a bit but last week, well before any talk of Hurricane Sandy, is began serious shopping. Here’s a photo I took at Lowe’s on Chelmsford St…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Area Democrats held their Annual Fall Brunch this morning at Lenzi’s in Dracut. Many Democratic candidates were in attendance. The main speaker was Congresswoman Niki Tsongas but the person who was given the most attention was Bruce Mann, the husband of Elizabeth Warren. Mann made a compelling…
Read More »Last evening the Angkor Dance Troupe celebrated its 25th anniversary with the world premiere of Apsara Dancing Stones, an interpretive dance that combined traditional Khmer dance with contemporary elements. The 900 plus people who filled the Lowell Memorial Auditorium saw a fantastic show.
Read More »I have been reading essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, specifically his treatise on History, which he denies the existence of, but he does mention that Biographies are real. He compares man to mosquitoes, leaves, and other forms of life. He argues that all history is subjective because it is formulated…
Read More »Brickhouse Wrestling and Fitness, Lee Street, Lowell MA. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Whatever your economic “religion”, you are probably losing faith. There is cause for great doubt whether you are a fiscal conservative, a…
Read More »More often than not, lunch for me is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so when I caught sight of a “peanut butter” in a front-page headline of yesterday’s New York Times food section, I went right to the story. But the “and” following this story’s peanut butter was not…
Read More »Congresswomen Niki Tsongas sponsored a screening of the “The Invisible War” last night at the Lowell National Park visitor center. This 2010 documentary explores the incidence of rape and sexual assault in the military (the Department of Defense itself estimates that in 2010 alone, there were more than 19,000 violent…
Read More »Today’s “Lunchtime Lecture” at UMass Lowell’s Inn & Conference Center featured a lively discussion about this year’s presidential race. The speakers were Mike Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president; Dan Winslow, a Republican state representative from Norfolk who was also chief legal counsel for Governor…
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