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Johnny Depp on Lowell, Mass

The January 2011 edition of Vanity Fair is on the news stand. It’s not magazine I normally purchase, but one of our readers sent an email reporting that in the issue’s cover story which is an interview with actor Johnny Depp by rock and roll star Patti Smith, Depp mentions…

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Pearl Harbor Day, 2010

At 11:00 this morning, I’ll walk over to the Hall of Flags at Lowell Memorial Auditorium where the Greater Lowell Veterans Council will conduct its annual Pearl Harbor Day remembrance ceremony. Sixty-nine years ago today, the aircraft of the Japanese Navy attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. By…

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Pizza and illegal immigration

I’ve never dined at Upper Crust Pizza and after reading the story in today’s Globe about the upscale chain, I probably won’t eat there any time soon. The story is mostly about a dispute over employee pay with a lot of back and forth between former employees and the employer’s…

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