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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…
Read More »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
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Nationally, angry voters pulled the lever for change, but here in Massachusetts a majority cast their ballots for optimism. Winners and losers weren’t defined just by the metrics however. Scott Brown, while not on the ballot, lost some…
Read More »These thoughts were written by Marjorie Arons-Barron yesterday, the day before polls opened, and are being cross posted from Marjorie’s own blog. I’m not given to quoting Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s blog, but, as we embark with certain misgivings on the last 17- hour countdown till the polls open, I note…
Read More »This is my favorite paragraph from the wonderful novel The Great Gatsby written by F Scott Fitzgerald. In this scene the narrator, Nick Carraway looks across the bay at Long Island, New York, for the last time. Lest we forget on this election day…the great promise of America. And as…
Read More »Humor has a special power and an ability to deliver an acute message…especially when it comes to political issues. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart proved this Saturday with their “Restore Sanity Rally”. These two may becoming the country’s voices of reason. Here is the video of Colbert’s memorable entrance filmed…
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