Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares some thoughts on modern politics: I get an awfully lot of email and mail from the Democratic Party of both Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., and just once I would like to open one that says “Thank You for Your Fifty Years of Service and Allegiance…
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While I video recorded the opening and closing statements of all the candidates at the United Teachers of Lowell candidates forum last night (see previous posts for council candidates and school committee coming maybe tomorrow night), the candidates were also asked questions of varying relevance by a panel. I didn’t…
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UMass Lowell Health and Social Sciences Building, South Campus. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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Here are the opening and closing statements of the second group of city council candidates from last night’s forum sponsored by the United Teachers of Lowell: [youtube]OEXAEwzCFUI[/youtube] [youtube]0WwfQOJmak8[/youtube]
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Here are the opening statements and the closing statements of the first group of city council candidates from last night’s forum sponsored by the United Teachers of Lowell: [youtube]DA_stwp3B6w[/youtube] [youtube]mITlhiAXieM[/youtube]
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When I flipped to the obituary page of today’s Globe and found myself staring into the eyes of the World War Two airman shown above, I just had to read the story. Imagine my surprise when I learned the deceased, L. Rodger Currie, was a “longtime dentist in Chelmsford” who…
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Yesterday I attended an outstanding program presented by Cliff Hoyt and the Lowell Historical Society on “J. C. Ayer and Company during the Civil War.” The Lowell-based Ayer company was one of America’s most prominent producers of patent medicine during the nineteenth century. Its founder was James Cook Ayer who…
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Ivy, our 3-year old Yellow Lab
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Fred Doyle returned to the radio airwaves today: [youtube]ujqVi2Ucg08[/youtube]
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