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Join us for the fall Lowell Cemetery tours tomorrow (Friday, September 25) at 1 pm and Saturday (September 26) at 10 am. The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery, are free, last about 90 minutes, and involve a moderate amount of walking.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today’s Boston Globe reports on the naming of former Olympic Gold Medal winner Tenley Albright to the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Albright’s is a wonderful story of accomplishment, from polio victim to champion ice skater to Harvard Medical…
Read More »Joe Hungler, the Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell, sent along some information about a Club Reunion that’s coming up on Thursday, October 1, 2015: The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell, formerly the Lowell Boys Club, is having a Club Reunion on Thursday,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When late CBS newsman Daniel Schorr was asked about his move from radio to television, he reportedly observed, “If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.” It’s in that spirit, and mindful of her declining poll…
Read More »This morning I attended the Inaugural Lowell House, Inc. “Celebrating Recovery” Breakfast at the UML/Inn & Conference Center. The nearly 400 attendees heard Lowell House CEO Bill Garr and from both Governor Charlie Baker and Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Monica Bharel. Garr made it clear that the Lowell…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) back from a summer break, anticipating the Mass Dems convention next week and eager to talk politics – will meet this coming Saturday morning September 12, 2015 at 8:00am/SHARP in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. Please note this is earlier in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Federal Judge Richard Berman nullified Tom Brady’s four-game suspension Thursday, and suddenly all was right with the world. Signs at the final preseason game declared with relief “Tom Brady is Free” and “Richard Berman for President.” Why not? Even…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It would be very tempting to leap to support the Green Line extension through Somerville to Medford. After all, anything that modernizes our nation’s oldest mass transit system is a good thing, and this particular plan was promised…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Slain WDBJ reporter Alison Parker’s father, Andy Parker, has become the latest grieving parent calling for gun control. We are all seduced by the notion that simply understanding the impact on real people of the failure to…
Read More »John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues Actually, President Herbert Hoover was wrong about a lot. He was correct on one topic. When it came to tax policy and the business of America, Coolidge was wrong, but Hoover was right. The…
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