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Photos by Tony Sampas.
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Documenting the 2011 City Council race
Last week I posted some video of the City Council candidate forum on public safety and some readers indicated it might be useful to put links to the video in a place that could be easily retrieved throughout the campaign. I’ve done this by creating a “2011 Lowell City Council…
Read More »“Paying for health care” by John Edward
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. We spend way too much for health care in the United States. In 2009, total expenditures on health were 17.4 percent of…
Read More »32nd Banjo and Fiddle Contest
The 32nd Banjo and Fiddle Contest, sponsored by the Lowell National Historic Park, September 10, 2011, Boarding House Park. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »“September 11” by Steve O’Connor
Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor wrote the following essay three years ago, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He’s allowing us to post it once again: Seven years ago today, I was teaching a class at Greater Lowell Tech as a few hundred miles south of us, men guided…
Read More »“9/11 Remembrance: Words are not enough” by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My daughter-in-law’s cousin Peter Goodrich, 33, of Sudbury died on Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower. It seems that almost everyone in Massachusetts is connected in some way with one of the victims…
Read More »Pentagon 9/11 Memorial
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Read More »Notes from September 11, 2001
Within days of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I sat down with a pencil and a yellow legal pad and made some notes about what had happened. There were no blogs back then so I never shared them with anyone. While cleaning out a drawer this summer I found…
Read More »Newspaper headlines, post September 11, 2001
I saved some of the front pages in the days following the 9-11 terrorist attack. Here’s a video that shares the headlines from that collection: [youtube]mdPa0G-Rg1w[/youtube]
Read More »“Unity”
Monument to the University of Massachusetts Lowell community (alumni and family members of alumni) who perished on September 11, 2001: Patrick J Quigley IV, Christopher Zarba, Jessica Leigh Sachs, John A Ogonowski, ’72, Robert J Hayes, ’86, Brian K Kinney, ’95, and Douglas A Gowell, ’71. Photos by Tony Sampas.
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