The current crop of GOP Presidential candidates will be in our own back yard up in New Hampshire tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. at St. Anselm College’s Sullivan Arena. The debate is sponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader, CNN and local television station WMUR. Across the stage you…
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For almost twenty years I’ve lived on Highland Street, not far from McDonough Funeral Home, which, like the nearby courthouse, churches, school building, green common, old mill and small businesses, train station, and other houses, represents a piece of the architecture of daily life. If we had a hospital, an art…
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On this day – June 12, 1944 – John F. Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. The Navy and Marine Corps Medal was first bestowed during the Second World War, although the first recipient is unknown. Perhaps the most famous recipient of the Navy and Marine Corps Medal…
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We have a park on Middlesex Street that is one of the most actively used parks in the city: Clemente Park—Roberto Clemente Park, named for the Hall of Fame outfielder of the Pittsburgh Pirates, one of the most revered Latino sports figures. In today’s NYTimes, Clemente is remembered in contrast…
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“The findings are significant as we will have to change our view on how the Sun interacts with particles, fields and gases from other stars, and this has consequences that reach down to Earth,” commented Arik Posner, Nasa’s Voyager programme scientist. Bbc.com reports that NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977 are…
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Familar talking news-head and longtime political columnist Howard Fineman now is a big shot at AOL/Huffington Post—editorial director. On 6/9, he wrote about the value of local news and how AOL/HuffPo’s “Patch” affilliates are making a huge contribution to local news gathering. Read his column here.
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Very Rev. John W. Hanley, O.M.I., V.F. Pastor of the Parish of St. William, Tewksbury Massachusetts The United States Province of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate has announced the following staff changes at Saint William’s. Father John Hanley, OMI, after almost eight years as Pastor of Saint William’s, has…
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I’m doing research for an essay about hyperlocal blogs like richardhowe.com, and I’d like to hear from people who know of similar blogs that focus deeply on a single place’s culture, politics, and history (the traditional past and moving-target history as it happens). Examples can be single-author blogs or multi-author and be…
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Thoughts about a milestone from one of our Lowell-linked contributors flung not so far out into the Atlantic, namely, on the Vineyard–PM . My personal odometer spins to a big, bottom-heavy number on Monday, and it has got my attention, prompting me to write and share a few random notes.…
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Political analyst Ron Brownstein has a new essay in National Journal about the “upside down” employment situation in the US, with more older people staying in their jobs out of necessity or choice and fewer younger people able to get started on the job ladder. I picked this up from…
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