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For at least a year, much of my news from Tewksbury and Chelmsford comes from their respective “Patch” sites. Patch.com is part of a nationwide effort by America Online to revive itself. There are 800 different Patch sites around the country with four in the Greater Lowell region: Tewksbury, Chelmsford,…
Read More »State Senator Barry Finegold has just posted his upcoming District Office Hours: Next Monday – January 24, 2011: Dracut: Dracut Council on Aging, 951 Mammoth Road, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Lawrence: Lawrence Senior Center, 155 Haverhill Street, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. Andover: Andover Senior Center, 36 Bartlet Street,…
Read More »Several hundred people gathered yesterday at the Wyndham Hotel in Andover, Mass., for the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Branch of the NAACP. Branch President Rev. Roger A. Sawtelle of Lowell said one of the things he enjoys about the yearly gathering is that…
Read More »Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 20, at 2 p.m, at the Athenian Corner restaurant on Market Street in Lowell. That’s when hundreds of literary fans will meet at the book launch party for Steve O’Connor’s upcoming novel, “The Spy in the City of Books, ” which is being published by Sons of Liberty…
Read More »Lowell resident and MassINC Executive Vice President John Schneider has been pushing the Gateway Cities initiative. Read the message that he and his colleague Ben Forman recently released. For details on MassINC’s Gateway Cities Education Summit in Worcestor on Feb. 4, visit www.massinc.org The Gateway Cities Globe moment This past Thanksgiving day, The Boston Globe began a…
Read More »From Bob Forrant: More than 60 people, including three Lawrence city councilors and two representatives from US Rep. Niki Tsongas’s office, yesterday gathered in Lawrence to start planning in earnest the 2012 Bread & Roses Strike Centennial Project. For more information, contact robert_forrant@uml.edu Read the Eagle-Tribune’s report on the January 15…
Read More »Award-winning author Jane Brox, who grew up and lived in Dracut until recently, will be among the featured faculty at the prestigious annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, August 10 to 20, 2011. For details, visit www.middlebury.edu/blwc Her faculty colleagues will include Chang-rae Lee, Philip Levine, and…
Read More »The first regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats for the New Year will be held this Saturday January 15, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: discussion of the upcoming Democratic Convention caucuses (February 5th- 19th); the 5th District…
Read More »George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
Read More »Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) / Second Essex Middlesex District Merrimack Valley State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) who represents the Second Essex Middlesex District wrote a column for today’s Eagle-Tribune. In the face of the Tuscon tragedy of last weekend he urges all of us to “to take a step back…
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