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Halloween morning Middlesex Community College staffers (friends and family too) participated in Lowell’s Monster Dash. Well, the dash is not really a dash..it is actually a duathlon. Contestants ran 3.1 miles, biked 14.1 miles then finished off with another 3.1 mile run. The race started at the Lowell Elks on…
Read More »So, hard facts. Nineteen nations have set new all-time temperature records this summer. Federal scientists have just announced that we’ve come through the warmest six months, twelve months, and decade on record. A powerful new study published in “Nature” shows that global warming has cut phytoplankton populations by half in…
Read More »Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 pm, Lowell National Hist. Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. “The Girl in the Italian Bakery” features Lawrence native Kenneth Tingle, author of a hard-knocks memoir about growing up in our neighbor mill city. It’s a story about not losing hope. Check out the book here.…
Read More »“In a nutshell, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus one percent; a recent previous estimate had a margin of error of three times as much. By weight it is four percent atoms, 23 percent dark matter—presumably undiscovered elementary particles left over from the Big Bang—and 73…
Read More »The UMass Lowell website this week includes a link to a Boston Herald review of the recent sold-out concert by hip hop star Drake at the revamped Tsongas Center. Read the review by Lauren Carter here, and get the Herald if you like the reporting.
Read More »In today’s Lowell Sun veteran sports writer, author and Red Sox scorekeeper has good things to say about the face-lift given to the former Tsongas Arena – now UMass Lowell Tsongas Center. Scoggins has given us a quick recap of the changes: New million-dollar video score board hanging over center…
Read More »This is for Dean! I was saving Willie for the second inning.—PM
Read More »The Boston Globe is reporting on “breaking news” that Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis Spina held a hearing on the sale of the Caritas Christi Heath Care system to Cerberus Capital Management today. Justice Spina signed-off on the transaction tranferring the assets of a non-profit entity to a for-profit entity. This was the…
Read More »Computerworld on-line notes that the “broadband stimulus program” wasn’t created just to bring broadband to underserved rural areas but it was also designed to create education centers to teach and train people to access and use the Web. There has been a particular need for such centers in cities…
Read More »Legendary San Francisco poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore and publishing company Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a baseball fan, too. The card-carrying Beat writer and publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and several books by Jack Kerouac, including “Book of Dreams” and “Pomes All Sizes,” has a most fitting poem for this…
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