The 5th annual Team Micky Ward Charities golf classic will be held this year on Monday, August 13, 2012 at Andover’s Indian Ridge Country Club with a 1 pm shotgun start. Here’s a description of the Charity’s mission: Team Micky Ward Charities Is a non-profit charitable organization that provides financial…
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In my weekly appearance on WCAP yesterday morning, Ted Panos asked me about the recent flap about tax bills in Lowell. After making a concerted, and largely successful, effort to keep the city’s budget for FY13 from rising, some were surprised to receive their quarterly tax bills last week and…
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[youtube]UhhsVZozmF0[/youtube] Actor Ernest Borgnine died on Sunday at age 95. His obituary in the New York Times thoroughly reviews his career and the many movie roles he played. To me, however, he will always be Lt Cdr Quinton McHale, the skipper of PT-73. What was it about the early 1960s…
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I watched about a dozen innings combined through the just-completed weekend series between the Yankees and Red Sox from Fenway Park. Had it not been for the presence of Derek Jeter in the opposing lineup, I would have guessed at first that I was watching the Pawtucket Red Sox, not…
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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: In 2009, I wrote a column that used a fictional story to explain how the Great Recession started. The column concluded with…
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I don’t have a set routine for the Fourth of July but the day inevitably involves a fun family cookout and ends in front of the TV watching the Boston Pops from the Esplanade. The “national” show that we’ve seen in the final hour of the production the past few…
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Jim Peters shares another of his essays: I have cancer. No big deal, just late-in-life non-Hodgekins lymphoma. I have basically tried to the best of my limited ability to keep it a secret because it has no bearing on my ability to do my job, or my relationships, or really…
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The weather last night was perfect for Chelmsford’s pre-4th of July Country Fair. At least one hundred organizations it seemed staffed booths erected around the perimeter of the town common to promote their organizations and raise funds. With music from the band concert softly emanating from the center of the…
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