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Architect Patrick Tighe is based in Southern California these days, but he has deep Lowell roots. Today’s NYTimes’s Home section features photographs and an article about a house in Los Angeles designed by Patrick. Montee Karp and her husband Dr. Harvey Karp hired Patrick to transform their ocean-facing house. She…
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Read More »I was taken by this “flag” and its mate on either side of the stage at Lowell’s Stoklosa School… hands and faces… an interesting backdrop to the celebration of Lowell school volunteers.
Read More »I was thinking about UMass Lowell’s Commencement the day after and made myself step back from the scene I was in to get a better sense of what was going on. The Tsongas Center on Saturday was a magnificent setting. When the pipes and drums started up, everyone in the…
Read More »Last Saturday morning the Tsongas Center resounded with “Pomp and Circumstance” bringing a record 3, 478 UMass Lowell students into the future. A dozen members of the Class of 1964 – seven from Lowell State – led the Class of 2014 into the Center to the applause, cheers, whistles and…
Read More »Bill Nye the Science Guy at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center last night (Image courtesy of Facebook page of Chancellor Marty Meehan). This is Commencement Day at UMass Lowell, and it’s wet out there. The grizzled and frizzed-hair ink-stained scribes of the media world will use all their…
Read More »News from the Doors Open Lowell organizers: Looking forward to a fantastic Doors Open Lowell weekend, so come on out and discover some great historic buildings and architecture as you help celebrate National Preservation Month. Head towww.doorsopenlowell.org for a complete schedule of events. If you missed the program guide in Wednesday’s Lowell Sun,…
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Read More »Here are the “Bridge Builder” honorees from this evening’s Community Teamwork (CTI) “Building Bridges to Independence” event at the UML/ICC. A great event with worthy honorees… David McLean representing the Demoulas Family and Market Basket (nutrition); Bruce Robinson, VP of Fred C. Church (extraordinary volunteer); CTI ED Karen Frederick; Michael Durkin,…
Read More »This is a another cross-post from the Lowell Historical Society blog site… Lowell Historical Society curator Ryan Owen continues his search for those “forgotten finds” in the archives and he shares them with us. (You can learn more about the Lowell Historical Society by visiting the website.) Among the Artifacts: The Wooden…
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