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Lura Smith reading Mary Sampas
Lura Smith, wrapped up in Mary Sampas, “In Her Own Words,” Whistler House, April 25th 2012. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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Lowell Cemetery tours this week
The spring tours of historic Lowell Cemetery begin this week on Friday, May 4 at 1 pm and Saturday, May 5 at 10 am. We have completely revised the tours this year. These May tours will all begin at the Lawrence Street entrance and will cover that half of the…
Read More »Results of Lowell tax lien auction
The city of Lowell held its first in a very long time tax lien auction yesterday in the City Council chamber of Lowell City Hall. City Treasurer Elizabeth Craveiro (shown above) ran the auction which was attended by about 30 people. Ten seats in the front row of the spectator’s…
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Read More »“In her own words . . .” A tribute to Mary Sampas
It was curiosity more than anything else that drew me to the Whistler House tonight for a retrospective on the work of Mary Boutselis Sampas who wrote for Lowell newspapers, mostly the Sun, for 75 years. I confess to being only an occasional reader of Mary’s columns. Perhaps that’s because…
Read More »Tax Lien auction tomorrow
Outside of New England, property tax collection is primarily the domain of county government and so at the registry of deeds we frequently get calls from out-of-staters asking for the date of our next tax lien sale. Aside from a way of raising cash from government, dabbling in tax liens…
Read More »Jane Brox at UMass Lowell
Dracut native Jane Brox, author of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light; Clearing Land; Five Thousand Days Like This One; and Here and Nowhere Else spoke at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center yesterday as part of UML’s lunchtime lecture series. The topic of Brox’s talk was “Reading, Writing…
Read More »UML Orchestra
Tony Sampas sent the above photo of the string section of the UML Orchestra with a member of the Choral Union in the background during rehearsal of selections from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at Durgin Concert Hall, UMass-Lowell on April 20, 2012. The orchestra’s performance is captured in the following…
Read More »Save the date – Lowell VA Clinic beautification project
Natasha Young, a post 9/11 local veteran, is organizing a community service project in Lowell that is worthy of everyone’s attention. On Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 9 am, Natasha and a group of volunteers will gather at the Lowell VA Outpatient Clinic at 130 Marshall Road to improve the…
Read More »Democratic delegate selection caucus
Yesterday Democrats gathered all over Massachusetts to select delegates to attend the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina from September 3 to 6, 2012. The delegate selections were done at Congressional District caucuses. Each Congressional District elected four male delegates, four female delegates and one alternate. The 3rd…
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