The following is excerpted from a notebook in which I wrote about the first Iraq War or Gulf War. With talk of a third Iraq War, I went back to look and decided to share these fragments from 23 years ago.—PM Gulf War Notebook (1991) Feb. 15. Iraq’s Revolutionary Command…
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This is a re-post from July 2010 when a heat wave was baking the city. I came across this piece while looking for something else and thought I’d share on this day of heavy rain, which is nurturing the green grass but making for a damp season. Also, a pretty…
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The Lowell High Compass Program Photography group has an exhibit up at Zeitgeist Gallery located at 167 Market St, Lowell, MA 01852 (formerly Olive That and More). The exhibit will be there until Monday June 16th. Items are available for purchase and all proceeds will go towards purchasing new cameras.…
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I have a message for President Obama and the Democratic National Committee: Nationalize the 2014 Congressional elections coming in November by giving American voters a simple choice. Start by stealing a Republican idea, Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America, which was announced six weeks before the 1994 mid-term election and is…
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For info contact Donna White at donnawhite@glmt.org or 978-319-8867 GLMT announces summer shows LOWELL, Mass. – The Greater Lowell Music Theatre, in partnership with the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas, is pleased to present its 2014 summer season of musicals. All shows are performed in Durgin Concert Hall, located on…
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Lowell City Hall from the Northwesterly approach. Photo by Tony Sampas
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On Saturday, April 18, 1998, about 100 people attended a “town meeting” called “What Does the Internet Mean for Lowell?” at the O’Leary Library of UMass Lowell. The gathering was sponsored by the UMass Lowell Psychology Dept. Community Outreach Laboratory, Flowering City Steering Committee, New England Foundation for the Arts…
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Thanks to Tony Sampas for the following photos and text and congratulations to Mehmed Ali: Lowell’s own Mehmed Ali receives Historic New England’s 2014 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper June 2, 2014, Haverhill, MA. With many Lowell friends in attendance the President of Historic New England Carl R. Nold…
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This morning a big bus wrapped with the slogan… “When Woman succeed… America succeeds …” rolled into Lowell and stopped at Middlesex Community College where a crowd of woman (and yes some men) eagerly awaited them. These Democratic ladies of the US House of representatives were led by former Speaker…
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This past Friday, I had a very good experience dealing with the City of Lowell Solid Waste & Recycling Office. For some reason, the recycle containers on my short street were not picked up on Thursday (having been bumped a day due to the holiday). When I went home for…
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