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Boston.com and the Globe this morning report that Lawrence resident Anthony Nunez, a civil engineer, has stepped up to call for volunteers to clean up the parks and roadsides of his hometown. He’s mad as hell about the trash and not going to take it anymore. Read the article here,…
Read More »On April 7, the UMass Lowell Center for Women & Work presented its annual “Splash! Awards” to Irene Egan of the Visiting Nurses Association of Greater Lowell, Rosemary Noon of the Lowell Plan Inc., and Allegra Williams of the City of Lowell’s Planning and Development Division. The awards were made…
Read More »CARL RUSSO/Staff photo – The sign on the Lawton’s building at Canal Street and Broadway in Lawrence has been redone as “Lawrence Famous Franks” in a style similar to the original. Bedeviled by an ever-weakening embankment, constant canal-related shut-downs, proposed plans of Enel and a kerfuffle over stand ownership, Joanne Curley…
Read More »There may be a slow down in building elsewhere but in North Tewksbury there’s a boomlet of building. A new home is under construction on North Street just beyond the light at Route 133. Beyond the light on Andover Street/Route 133 – a complex of twenty luxury condos set on…
Read More »Jim Calhoun, UConn Basketball Coach We do like to make those Lowell connections. The starting center for the UConn Huskies – Sophomore and Lowell native – Alex Oriakhi was a critical player in last night’s win for the national chanpionship with his 11 points and 11 rebounds. Oriakhi played at…
Read More »One of the most important American painters of our day is George Condo, who has deep roots in Chelmsford and at UMass Lowell, where his father, Pasquale Condo, was a longtime professor of mathematics. Condo was profiled by Jim Sullivan in yesterday’s Boston Globe. One early influence on Condo was Kerouac: “But as a…
Read More »Tony – ever efficient – got the Tewksbury and Billerica results up very quickly. These results are unofficial as posted on the Tewksbury Patch website but are sure to be confirmed. In Tewksbury, there were a few glitches with the ballot boxes in precincts 2, 2A and 4 at different times…
Read More »Thanks to www.billerica.org for the election results: Selectman ( Two Winners) David A Gagliardi – 1997 Robert B Accomando (incumbent) – 1790 Paul Marasco (incumbent) – 1656 Shawsheen Tech School Committee (One Winner) Jamie Haroutunian – 1341 Paula McShane Lambert – 1413 Planning Board( Two Winners) Marti Mahoney (Incumbent) –…
Read More »From Tewksbury Patch: Selectmen (1) Doug Sears (I) – 1835 Jim Biewener – 1510 Ed Sullivan – 1113 Town Clerk (1) Mary-Ann Nichols (I) – 1632 Denise Graffeo – 2085 Han Bernier – 821 Board of Health (1) Kathleen Brothers – 1794 Charles Roux – 2373
Read More »The Eagle-Tribue is reporting today that Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua and his aide Patrick Blanchette were nearly run down yesterday as they stood outside City Hall. Lantigua – who filed a report with the Police Department – noticed a car circling around as he and Blanchette talked about a possible…
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