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Cardinal O’Connell Parkway makeover
From Tony Sampas: Cardinal O’Connell Parkway Makeover. There will be a layer of bricks around the edges, a fence put in and new plantings added. The trees, which were diseased, will be replaced
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Suing bloggers for fun and profit
The New York Times yesterday reported that a company from Nevada, Righthaven LLC, has entered into an arrangement with Media News Group (the owner of the Lowell Sun and many other newspapers) whereby Righthaven scours the internet for people using copyrighted articles and photographs from Media News Group papers and,…
Read More »The geometry of Lowell’s mills
Tony Sampas finds poetry in the geometry of Lowell’s mills.
Read More »From Desert One to Abbottabad
On April 24, 1980, the world awoke to news that the a rescue mission launched by the United States to retrieve its Iranian Embassy personnel who were being held hostage in Tehran had ended in a deadly failure. While at an intermediate position known as Desert One, a series of…
Read More »Law Day and the death of bin Laden
Growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I always watched the network news on May 1 because that’s the day that the Soviet Union would parade its most advanced military equipment through Red Square as part of that country’s May Day celebration. To contrast the Soviet glorification of military power,…
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared some thoughts with us over the weekend: I have been reading a bit of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, and I really enjoy reading a poem he dedicated to a louse on a lady’s bonnet at church. He uses most of the poem to describe…
Read More »Lowell Sustainability Photo Contest
What part of Lowell do you want to pass on to future generations? That’s the question that the city’s just-announced photo contest asks: Nearly ten years ago, the City of Lowell created a citywide Master Plan, thereby establishing a shared and comprehensive framework for long range development. This year the…
Read More »Osama bin Laden dead
While waiting for President Obama to address the nation, all major news outlets are now reporting that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, is now dead almost ten full years after the attack. Great news! UPDATE at 11:40 pm, President Obama begins speaking from White House. Thanks…
Read More »Lowell National Park Photography Contest
For the second consecutive year, the Lowell National Park will hold a photography contest that will run from May 1, 2011 to September 1, 2011. Last year I attended the awards ceremony for the contest and was stunned by the quality of the photos submitted (and clearly understood why the…
Read More »Just another Lowell sunset
By Tony Sampas
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