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The weather is unquestionably the top story this week…and UMass Lowell’s Weather Center provides the best Lowell weather forecast around. The University’s Department of Environmental Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences maintains the website. It is one thing to listen or watch Boston forecasters but it is a completely different experience to…
Read More »The temperature was in the 90’s yesterday. It is going to be in the 90’s today and tomorrow, then, according to local forecasters, it will cool down to the upper 80’s for the remainder of the week. So with all this heat and humid around, how do you keep cool?…
Read More »I always wished I had been born on the fourth of July…can you just image your birthday being filled with parades, fireworks and barbeques every year?. Who cares that the celebration is not for you…it doesn’t matter. It would be a blast anyway (excuse the pun). Below is a list…
Read More »Excuse me, but I just can’t take this Russian spy thing seriously. You see I was born in 1951 and lived my early years in the heart of the Cold War. I experience the “Red Scare” first hand. And let me tell you, when you’re an innocent kid and “they”…
Read More »“A pair of peregrine falcons nesting on the roof of the 18-story Fox Hall at UMass Lowell successfully hatched 2 chicks this spring. On June 2, a team from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife checked their status & put I.D. bands around their legs. As usual, the chicks’…
Read More »The entry below was cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For some observers, Don Chiofaro is a character out of Ayn Rand, the larger-than-life developer who muscles aside naysayers to create huge and exciting structures that fulfill his vision. For others, he is simply a bulldog, who insists on…
Read More »I am a Michael Jackson fan. I know, he was freaky, but he was a great musician and dancer. But don’t take my word for this…1940/50’s dancing genius Gene Kelly (Singin’ in the Rain) called Jackson the greatest dancer he had ever seen. The King of Pop died one year…
Read More »Pat Patriot is back! Pat Patrick along with the rest of the vintage New England Patriots red and white uniforms will return in 2010 as the teams “alternate uniform”. Patriot officials announced their decision to phase out the silver jersey uniforms and replace them with…are you ready, uniforms styled after…
Read More »This video of the Chelmsford High School graduating class of 1951 was put together by Victor and Lynn Ouellett (K1CGl Productions). It contains some great old pictures of Paragon Park at Nantasket Beach and ends with a list of classmates (see if you recognize any names).
Read More »Once again Raytheon brings good news to the economy of the Merrimack Valley. Last week the US government granted Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems a $73 Million contract to upgrade the Patriot Missile System for two partner countries, Taiwan and Kuwait. The Andover company’s stock increased to $52.31 after the announcement…
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