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Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor share some thoughts on Comcast, MTV, and that cable channel’s controversial new show, Skins: I spent a half hour on the phone yesterday, half of that on hold, with Comcast. I had been watching a report on CNN earlier about a new drama called “Skins” to…
Read More »Perhaps I should wait until tomorrow for this post, because I have something positive to say about the Lowell Sun and a day when the temperature might not rise above 0 degrees would be somehow appropriate for that. But this news is too important to wait. The Sun is discontinuing…
Read More »At last Tuesday’s meeting, the Lowell City Council by a 5 to 4 vote rejected a joint motion by Bud Caulfield and Rita Mercier to “allow Sean Burke to address the City Council regarding a plan for vacant/foreclosed homes.” Today, both Gerry Nutter and the Lowell Sun editorial have written…
Read More »Tony Sampas caught the full moon rising over Lowell City Hall.
Read More »Through the years I’ve often seen favorable references to the “Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant” but had yet to read the book. With the arrival of 2011 and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I concluded now was the time to remedy that omission. Having just finished the book,…
Read More »An email from The Boston Channel arrived at 5:26 am and the robocall from the school department came in at 5:50 am. Another long weekend for students and staff. The means of notifying folks that school is canceled certainly has changed. Websites now allow you to zoom in on the…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some roof-level photos of the Smith Baker Center
Read More »For at least a year, much of my news from Tewksbury and Chelmsford comes from their respective “Patch” sites. Patch.com is part of a nationwide effort by America Online to revive itself. There are 800 different Patch sites around the country with four in the Greater Lowell region: Tewksbury, Chelmsford,…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured out into yesterday’s snow to photograph the office of the Home Preservation Coalition at 450-58 Merrimack Street, aka “Cottage Row” circa 1830.
Read More »Tony Sampas photographs the recently refurbished Abraham Lincoln Monument in Lincoln Square at the intersection of Chelmsford, Liberty and Lincoln Streets in Lowell.
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