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In today’s Boston Globe, an editorial nod to Congresswoman Niki Tsongas’ call for colleague Anthony Weiner to resign: …One notable exception to the pattern is Fifth District Representative Niki Tsongas, who has called for Weiner to resign. “It would be appropriate for Congressman Weiner to step down,” she told the…
Read More »From This Day in History from History.com: On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing…
Read More »Tonight the Joint Committee on Redistricting met at Lawrence High School for the ninth in a series of hearings seeking testimony and input from across the Commonwealth from elected officials, representatives of organizations and interests and from the general public. The session lasted for nearly three hours before a very…
Read More »The current crop of GOP Presidential candidates will be in our own back yard up in New Hampshire tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. at St. Anselm College’s Sullivan Arena. The debate is sponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader, CNN and local television station WMUR. Across the stage you…
Read More »On this day – June 12, 1944 – John F. Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal was first bestowed during the Second World War, although the first recipient is unknown. Perhaps the most famous recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Community Foundation announced their choice for Exceutive Director in this press release: Press Release for Immediate Distribution Greater Lowell Community Foundation Names New Executive Director Lowell, June 10, 2011 – Raymond E. Riddick, an accomplished business and community leader in the Merrimack Valley, has been appointed executive…
Read More »Very Rev. John W. Hanley, O.M.I., V.F. Pastor of the Parish of St. William, Tewksbury Massachusetts The United States Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate has announced the following staff changes at Saint William’s. Father John Hanley, OMI, after almost eight years as Pastor of Saint William’s, has…
Read More »Back in the spring of 1954 at the age of 11 – home from school couch-bound as was the prescription for rheumatic fever in those days – I was glued to our small television watching the Army-McCarthy hearings along with my grandmother. One of the most dramatic moments of those…
Read More »Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from his balloon Intrepid. ( Library of Congress) The Washington Post reminds that on Saturday June 11, 2011 the Smithsonian will commemorate America’s first attempt at an air force. In June 150 years ago, Thaddeus Lowe flew 500 feet into the air in front…
Read More »St. William’s Church, Tewksbury, Massachusetts (1935) staffed by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate William Cardinal O’Connell, Archbishop of Boston Today is the Feast Day of St. William of York – William Fitzherbert – who was a 12th century nobleman, monk, and Archbishop of York in England. He died suddenly in…
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