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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. I really like George and his colleagues at my local post office. They’re helpful and friendly, and seem to know the local residents. They’re an important part of the local neighborhood scene. A lot of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If the four GOP candidates were running for legislator-in-chief, Rick Santorum would have won last Wednesday’s debate. But they are not, and, coming off three caucus and one primary victories plus a surge in the polls, former Pennsylvania…

File this one under, another Lowell Connection. I am about half way through a book by David Halberstam titled The Education of a Coach. The book chronicles Patriots’ head-coach Bill Belichick and the people and events that shaped his successful career in professional football. It is a fascinating account of…

This is a unique look at the Lowell State Forest captured from the view of a mountain biker. This video was originally posted by rrale22.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A new Suffolk University/Channel 7 poll puts Senator Scott Brown nine points ahead of Democratic challenger Elizabeth Brown. But what will be the impact on the Massachusetts electorate of his recent effort to emulate Rick Santorum in the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. How many trees died so the Government Printing Office could distribute all those never-to-be-implemented budget proposals put out earlier this week by the Obama Administration. Let’s face it. The Obama budget is basically dead on…

His official name is Ch Palacegarden Malachy, but you can simply call him Malachy… or maybe even, best in show. Malachy took the 2012 Best In Show Prize at this years Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Below is a picture of the winning Pekingese showing off his newly won ribbons…

This video is of particular interest to me since I worked at WLLH radio here in Lowell for seven years producing the drive time show, Morning Magazine hosted by the late Paul Sullivan. WLLH (AM) and WSSH (FM) were both owned by the same man and before the days of…

Happy bicentennial birthday wishes to one of the most famous visitors ever to Middlesex Community College, Mr. Charles Dickens himself! That is the first sentence of a wonderful entry about the famous author Charles Dickens’ visit to Lowell posted on the Middlesex Community College blog. Its titled… “The Dickens, You…