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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts’ Senate President is in trouble. The Boston Globe reports on four unnamed men subjected to sexual harassment by Bryon Hefner, the husband of Senate President Stan Rosenberg. MassLive reports this morning on a possible fifth case. Three of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just because Donald Trump didn’t vomit on the Japanese Prime Minister the way George H. W. Bush did in 1992, didn’t make the President’s 12- day Asia trip a resounding success. Announcing billion dollar business deals negotiated prior…
Read More »MAJOR GRANT & AWARD FOR WATERWAYS VITALITY PROJECT The Lowell Heritage Partnership’s Waterways Vitality Initiative surged forward this month with several milestone achievements. The initiative’s recent successes include receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation of Boston; a MassINC Innovation Award to be presented on November…
Read More »NBC News national political correspondent Steve Kornacki will speak at UMass Lowell’s University Crossing (220 Pawtucket St) this Friday, November 17, 2017 at 3pm. The topic of his speech will be “The Trump Election One Year In: Did It Change Everything?” Besides regular appearances on NBC News and MSNBC, Kornaki’s…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to feel good about last Tuesday’s election results. Winning beats losing. Trying to tout losing by special congressional elections by ever-narrower margins doesn’t cut it. Never mind that Virginia trends blue anyway and voted Democratic…
Read More »After the blizzard of campaign lit that we’ve seen in our mailboxes for the past week or so, it was refreshing to get the fall newsletter from the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust (LP&CT), one of the powerhouses in the nonprofit community. The last time I heard a figure for…
Read More »The entry blow is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Late tonight (aka Sunday morning) is the start of the deep blue funk. Clocks are set back one hour at two a.m. Soon sunset will be a little after four o’clock. (In Maine, it’s before four p.m.) Vitamin…
Read More »This storm will pack a punch, but it’ll be gone quickly Power outages are virtually guaranteed across southern New England. After a beautiful day on Saturday, things are rapidly going to go downhill Sunday afternoon and into the overnight. . . . Power outages are virtually guaranteed across southern New…
Read More »There must be a comic out there who wrote this already, but I will suggest it for consideration. In the contest of political language and with humor in the face of swamp gas, the inconvenient media should use the term “droppings” instead of “tweets” for early morning emissions from Trump’s…
Read More »The Friends of Tyler Park will hold its annual Spaghetti Supper Scholarship Fundraiser tonight from 6 to 8 at Mt. Pleasant Golf Club, 141 Staples St, Lowell. Each year, Friends of Tyler Park awards $300 scholarships to deserving students at Lowell High School and Greater Lowell Technical High School. Join…
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