The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards I am in the Barnes and Noble café in Nashua, NH. As usual. Trying to work. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes less so. Most times, I can achieve a level of concentration here I can’t reach in a…
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Congratulations to Middlesex Community College President Carole Cowan. Yesterday the city of Lowell announced that President Cowan was selected to be the Grand Marshall for this year’s City of Lights parade. At the announcement City Manager Bernie Lynch praised Cowan and the entire college “for being such a strong partner…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Scott Brown told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce this morning that he’s “tired of the fluff.” He says that, in nine months in Washington, the Senate has only focused for 12 days on jobs…
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No this isn’t Woodstock, New York…but according to the person that posted this video it’s the Merrimack Valley version at Camp Paul in Chelmsford in 1969. Great fun to watch. This video was originally posted by dendog
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Stickers with icons of science and technology embedded in letters of the alphabet. Posters of kids with beakers and stethoscopes. Decks of cards with numbers in the shape of solar panels or a double helix .A music video…
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Four sisters owl diner owner Tom Shanahan talks about renovations done to his historic diner located in Lowell, MA (YouTube video description). This video was originally posted by torypix
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The following entry is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Keith Olbermann’s “indefinite suspension” for violating NBC’s policy barring donations to political candidates turned out to be just two days’ off the air. Which probably makes sense because his misstep was not in making the donations to three…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. She got on the phone with facilities people to get the heating system working, met with two guidance counselors about arrangements for Spirit Day, caught up with another administrator about making sure teachers had turned…
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Categorize this one under the heading “there always seems to be a Lowell connection”… Recently Fallon Community Health has been running a TV Advertisement featuring its CEO, Pat Hughes. When I first saw the Ad I wondered if this Pat Hughes was the same one I remembered as a kid…
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There’ s a big party tonight…at the John F Kennedy Library. Tonight library officials will re-create JFK’s election night party held fifty years ago, November 8, 1960. Because the race was so close, Kennedy didn’t discover he was elected president until the morning after the voting. Early on the morning…
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