There have been a succession of news stories such as this one in yesterday’s New York Times detailing how major mortgage lenders around the country are freezing all foreclosure activity so they can review their methods of conducting foreclosures. Some of the abuses that have been exposed include lender employees…
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Tony Sampas shares more views of “The Sun”
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Another installment of our Lowell trivia questions. The answers will be posted tomorrow. 6) What Lowell boxer represented the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games? 7) Which country’s national anthem was written by a person who lived in Lowell? 8) How many Roman Catholic churches in Lowell were originally…
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Earlier today I noticed that Paul Cellucci had endorsed Jon Golnik, the Republican candidate for the 5th Congressional District. I remember two things about Paul Cellucci. At the Lowell Memorial Auditorium back in 1998 during a gubernatorial debate, when Scott Harshbarger raised doubts about the “Big Dig”, Cellucci pounded the…
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Tony Sampas shares his “views” of the local newspaper
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Here’s Paul Marion reading his poem, “Dylan Sings to Kerouac”, at Kerouac Park during this past weekend’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Video posted on YouTube by “spannedy”) [youtube]uuSfWNu9gMY[/youtube]
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Jim Peters sent a blog post explaining why he’ll be voting for Deval Patrick on November 2: Deval Patrick is an enigma. A poor boyhood, with an apparently protective mother, led to scholarships at the most prestigious of universities and a life during which he learned to enjoy things that…
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UMass Lowell History professor Michael Pierson gave a spirited lecture today at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium’s Hall of Flags as part of the Moses Greeley Parker Lecture series. Pierson, the author of two books on the Civil War ( “Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics” and…
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If you go to www.lowelldeeds.com, the website of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, it’s fairly easy to calculate how many documents of a particular type of been recorded during a period of time. With the direction of our real estate market so closely linked to the rise and fall…
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Here are the names of American service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan this week, as reported by the New York Times: Iraq CARILLO, John Jr., 20, Specialist, Army; Stockton, Calif.; Third Infantry Division. NOONAN, Gebrah P., 26, Pfc., Army; Watertown, Conn.; Third Infantry Division. WHISENANT, Marc C., 23,…
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