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Vintage ad – 1908 – for New England Confectionary Company of Boston, Massachusetts chocolates and other sweets. Whether it’s – Godiva, Hershey, Mrs. Nelson’s, Lindt, Nestles’s, Ghiradelli, Ferrero Rocher, Priscilla’s, Harbor Sweets, Whitman, Russell Stover or Dove – whatever your favorite confectionery brand – February is National Chocolate Month – time…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters submitted the following post about the need for more museums in Lowell and throughout our region. I recently had the honor and pleasure of having a hamburger at the Old Court with our City Councilor, Patrick Murphy. We discussed a great many things, but one of…
Read More »Deshpande Foundation Merrimack Valley Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UMass Lowell Merrimack Valley Sandbox Initiative- Campus Catalyst Competition Spring 2011 The Campus Catalyst Competition is an exciting new program where the Merrimack Valley Sandbox (MVS) Initiative will provide seed capital, up to $500 each, for innovative and entrepreneurial projects…
Read More »This is a repost of an earlier blog post! The window for holding the caucuses to elect delegates to the 2011 Democratic Convention on June 4th in Lowell opens this Saturday February 5th and closes on Saturday February 19th. Here is a list of the first group of local Greater Lowell/Merrimack…
Read More »Earlier this week Channel 5’s Chronicle did an entire show on Dick Eklund, Micky Ward and the movie The Fighter. Watching it reminded me that I had never seen the famous slip/knock down of Sugar Ray Leonard by Dicky Eklund..so I check it out on YouTube and found this video.…
Read More »Readers of the Eagle-Tribune I’m sure weren’t surprised to see the stunning photo of an accident scene on Rte. 93 yesterday “go global.” The image of the car involved in the storm-related accident actually standing on its nose at the side of the highway – in both video and photos – taken…
Read More »The Eagle-Tribune is reporting today that the Andover Board of Selectmen has approved the alternative design for a new interchange off Interstate 93 into Lowell Junction. This allows plans for the project to move forward. There has long been a concern that federal officials would not give their needed approval since the alternate design…
Read More »The window for holding the caucuses to elect delegates to the 2011 Democratic Convention on June 4th in Lowell opens this Saturday February 5th and closes on Saturday February 19th. Here is a list of the first group of local Greater Lowell/Merrimack Valley area caucuses: Saturday February 5th: Andover – Saturday,…
Read More »Former Lowell Sun reporter and prolific contributor to the Sunday Column (back in the day) -Kevin Landrigan – now covers the NH State House writing reports and a Sunday political column for the Telegraph with the same in-depth attention he gave back in his Sun-days. He is definitely in-gear to cover the the quadrennial …
Read More »The Associated Press via the Sun on Jan. 27 reported that the local corporation Raytheon Company had fourth-quarter revenue of $6.9 billion in 2010. The net income for the period was $459 million, down 9 percent from one year ago. The decline was attributed to pension costs and debt retirement,…
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