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18th Middlesex Candidate debate this Tuesday Voters in the 18th Middlesex District will have their first opportunity to see all five Democratic candidates for the office face off this coming Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 7 pm in a televised debate sponsored by the KhmerPost USA newspaper. The debate will…
Read More »Downtown Lowell two-way traffic in play this morning. Looking good. Lots of signs, cones, cops, message boards, etc. Saw somebody make a right turn onto Central from Merrimack, heading south, smooth running. I think this is going to be a big plus. Change the vibe downtown. Improve navigation. Make it…
Read More »At the same time as City Manager Kevin Murphy was stating that his “number one priority was making downtown Lowell a college town” I was pulling into Williamstown, Massachusetts for a few days. Williamstown, 120 miles west of Lowell, is tucked into the northwest corner of Massachusetts and borders New…
Read More »Taken from comments by people in the FB Group “You Know Your’e From Lowell …,” here’s a list of some of the bands that played in the 1960s and ’70s at the legendary night spot and dance hall on Thorndike Street, now long gone. Vanilla Fudge The Buckinghams Cream with…
Read More »Publishing a list is risky because the content is always limited, however, as we have seen in the Market Basket crisis there are times when you have to stick your neck out (cue the giraffe). August is a time when a lot of people slow down and take time off…
Read More »“BY TODD PITMAN AND SOPHENG CHEANG, ASSOCIATED PRESS, PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge ended, a U.N.-backed tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top leaders of the former regime to life in prison for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1970s…
Read More »It’s here. Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park. The publisher is offering the hardcover edition for $45, a 40% discount if ordered directly from the publisher. Link here to the discount order form.
Read More »Shirley Leung of the Boston Globe went to The Olympia for lunch to learn what the locals are saying about the Demoulas-Market Basket Affair. Read her column here, and get the Globe if you want more of this kind of newspapering.
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Congratulations and thanks to all involved for another successful Lowell Folk Festival. I attended on both Saturday and Sunday with vastly different experiences but that was because of the heavy rain that fell midday on Sunday. Hopefully the financial impact was less severe than the weather. I am sorry I…
Read More »In the rh.com archives, I found another post I had written about Harry de Metropolis in 2008. Time flies. Some of the information repeats what I have in my new post, but there is enough different material that I thought I’d post it as a companion piece to give a…
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