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Anyone interested in social media in Lowell should stop by Ward Eight, the (relatively) new restaurant & pub at 280 Central Street (at the corner of Central and Green in the former JJ Turner’s Pub) at 5:30 tonight. Many of the city’s most active Twitter users will be gathering there…
Read More »The Tewksbury Public Library is always a busy place beyond the circulation of books and other communication media. The Library is truly a community center – offering programs and speakers for all ages and all interests. Next week the Library continues its theme of boxing in the Merrimack Valley. Irish…
Read More »Merrimack Valley Business magazine just released its second “40 Under 40” edition, which features 40 “up-and-coming business people who are making a profound difference in their fields and the [Merrimack Valley]. Among the honorees is Jessica Wilson, Executive Director of Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (front row, fourth from right) and Danielle…
Read More »In the aftermath of last week’s conviction of a Haverhill teen of causing the death of another by texting while driving, today’s Globe publishes a letter to the editor advocating the complete ban of all cell phone use while driving a car. The letter’s author is “Kathleen M. O’Donnell of…
Read More »Today’s Boston Globe has a story about PBS’s Antiques Roadshow and the Boston episode which features – among other finds – a painting hanging in the city of Boston’s Parkman House. A photo accompanying the article shows Mayor Tom Menino, the quite familiar Skinner appraiser Colleene Fesko and an Aldro Hibbard painting of a snowy…
Read More »In a New York Times Op-Ed yesterday, Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, offers an evolutionary explanation for our obesity epidemic and provides some context for the ongoing debate over limiting or taxing portion sizes of sugary soft drinks and other sweets. The essay is not…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column There is something terribly wrong here. Banks are being paid more for not lending money than they are paying seniors on fixed…
Read More »Sunday’s New York Times has a very interesting article about the difficulties faced in establishing a Sept 11 Museum in New York City. While it sounds like the museum commission has been totally inclusive in soliciting opinions from all involved, emotions are still too raw and still too diverse to…
Read More »Matt Malone, SJ A Massachusetts and Greater Lowell connection! I know Matt and couldn’t be more pleased at this appointment. America is powerful voice for Jesuits and for Catholics – it is in a good place in the hands of Matt Malone. (New York, N.Y., June 5, 2012) — For…
Read More »When the National Anthem was being sung wonderfully by a young woman from Springfield to open this morning’s Democratic State Convention, I and all the delegates I could see where standing and facing the colors. The same was not the case in the press box according to this Tweet from…
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