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From the video description: The Mill City Triathlon is a great event held at the Lowell Beach on the Merrimack River in Lowell Massachusetts. The swim is an out and back in the Merrimack River. The bike course is a rolling course in Lowell and Tyngsboro followed by an an…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Be sure to check it out too. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday urged the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana.  This follows on the heels of last week’s move to ban the sale of sugary drinks in cups…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. In 1978,  I was covering Republican U. S. Senator Ed Brooke’s reelection campaign for the Boston Phoenix.  Both on primary and election day,  I was glued to him. Where he went, I went.  Sometimes…

Here is another video taken during the recent shooting in Tewksbury of the new Adam Sandler movie, Grown Ups 2. This one shows Actor/Comedian Peter Dante signing autographs at Stadium Plaza. Danta is a friend of Sandlers who has been in most of the “Happy Madison” movies. This video was…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Former football star Brian Banks of Long Beach, California got a really raw deal.  What happened to him is shocking and outrageous.  A stupid, unthinking woman accused him of rape. Except in 2003, Wanetta Gibson,15, was a stupid,…

There are some great pictures of this year’s Middlesex Community College graduation on the college’s blog. Check it out. http://community.middlesex.mass.edu/blogs/mccblog/ And you can watch Chancellor Marty Meehan give his address to the Umass Lowell graduation class on YouTube. Here is the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjTNHRgjaU

This guy has the Prez down perfectly… Seen on C-SPAN: Obama impersonator Reggie Brown performed during the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.

Hollywood visited the Tewksbury K Mart this week. YouTube user xxxrollingrockxxx2 posted this video of Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade (I think) filming a scene from Grown Ups 2.

A Military Black Hawk Helicopter landed in Lowell Cemetery this past weekend. This video was originally posted by videoviv

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find Marjorie’s blog at http://marjoriearonsbarron.com/ Six nations are heading to Baghdad this week to meet with Iran about its relentless drive for nuclear weapons. This was teed up by their meeting this spring in Istanbul. The…