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The swing in this photo by Tony Sampas appears to be temporarily out of service.
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richardhowe.com featured on national travel site
Last week our “Fighter” location map was featured on the Channel 5 news segment about the Oscar nominations for the filmed-in-Lowell movie, “The Fighter.” This week, Gadling, a national travel blog, includes the map on a post titled “A Travel Guide to the 2011 Oscar Movies”. For those of you…
Read More »February 2, 1967 – the ABA is born
If you’re like me, you’re old enough to recall the American Basketball Association. There was no team in New England and there was little, if any, TV coverage, but the upstart league which was born on February 2, 1967, changed basketball in many ways. The ABA brought us the New…
Read More »Cancellations and delays
By 8 pm yesterday, the Lowell public schools and UMass Lowell had been canceled, so part of the typical drama of a snow storm was gone. The Registry of Deeds and courts in Lowell will open at 11 am today in accordance to this notice on the Trial Court’s website:…
Read More »North Common Village by day and night
Tony Sampas shares contrasting views of North Common Village in the snow
Read More »Does snow make you SAD
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression or winter blues, is a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter . . . Once regarded skeptically by the experts, seasonal affective disorder is now well…
Read More »City Hall in the snow
Tony Sampas ventured out into the snow to capture these pictures of City Hall
Read More »No school in Lowell
An email alert arrived at 5:55 am and the robocall just came in at 6:02 am – no school in Lowell on Tuesday. Not a flake has fallen yet, so this is a prospective cancellation but also a wise one. Several years ago school was held in the face of…
Read More »Review of “The Town”
Not to be confused with the play (“Our Town”) I wrote about yesterday, “The Town” is the 2010 Ben Affleck film about a gang of bank robbers from Charlestown. I ordered it from Netflix, mostly to try to discover why “The Fighter” was winning so many awards while “The Town”…
Read More »Signs of Winter
Tony Sampas preserves views that are all too familiar to us these days.
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