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Bricks on Market Street
Tony Sampas continues his examination of urban building materials with some shots from Market Street.
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Holy Trinity facelift
Tony Sampas captures the ongoing face lift to the exterior of the Holy Trinity Church during the day and after dark
Read More »Foreclosure Freeze Explained
It seems like everyday another major bank announces it will halt all foreclosure activity to review procedures and paperwork. There are many reasons. Real estate law is unique to every state. Here in New England, much of that body of law predates the establishment of the United States. Major national…
Read More »Answers to yesterday’s trivia questions
11) What was the previous name for the Harvard Brewery before 1898? * The Consumers’ Brewing Company which was incorporated in 1893 12) What was the original name of the street that runs in front of the main area of the North Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell? *…
Read More »Glennie’s Ice Cream employee outing
Growing up, at least once a week in the summertime my family would load up the station wagon, pickup my grandmother, and cross the School Street Bridge to the north side of the Merrimack River so we could enjoy some Glennie’s Ice Cream (now the site of Heritage Ice Cream…
Read More »Polling the Massachusetts AG race
The second poll of the evening. This one by a group calling itself Public Policy Polling Company. It was a quicky automated survey on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Jim McKenna. Here’s what was asked: Do you view Martha Coakley favorably or unfavorably? Do…
Read More »Rasmussen Poll Questions
Usually we let the answering machine handle the “out of area” calls but tonight we picked up and ended up taking an automated poll from Rasmussen. Here are the questions that were asked: Is the country on the right track? Is Obama doing a good job? If the election were…
Read More »Tuesday Trivia
How well do you know Lowell? Answers tomorrow. 11) What was the previous name for the Harvard Brewery before 1898? 12) What was the original name of the street that runs in front of the main area of the North Campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell? 13) Which Lowell…
Read More »The Urge to Over Eat
Yesterday’s Globe had an interview with Dr. David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner who has just written a book called “The End of Overeating.” Kessler maintains that America’s obesity epidemic is caused primarily by two things: (1) humans have an “innate drive to eat sugar, salt, and fat” and (2)…
Read More »Building Blocks of Lowell
Tony Sampas shows us what Lowell is built of . . .
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