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Last night I made the drive down River Road to the Wyndham Hotel in Andover to be the guest speaker at the annual gathering of landlords who participate in Community Teamwork’s HomeBASE program which provides rental assistance to families in need. There were nearly seventy landlords in attendance from across…
Read More »Derek Mitchell who is a candidate for Lowell City Council sent along the following Op-Ed on the topic of opioid addiction, a critically important issue in this city and across the country. (I welcome similar articles on any topic within reason by anyone, candidate or non-candidate. Just email your piece…
Read More »This is a story that I wrote for the Khmer Post USA, a biweekly newspaper published in Lowell that serves the Cambodian community in the city and throughout the east coast. The paper is primarily written in Khmai, however, it does include some articles published in English, such as this…
Read More »“Highland Street Flowers” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 [painting, 1996) See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This one is for all the backyard gardeners who have had a summer of cut flowers to brighten their homes in our “Flowering City.”
Read More »Sayon Soeun, City Councilor Vesna Nuon, me, Vong Ros and Vanna Howard after enjoying a delicious lunch purchased from one of the many food vendors at the Southeast Asian Water Festival.
Read More »Tooch Van, a Cambodian-American resident of Lowell, shared the following poem: I am Tooch Van, an educator, a storyteller, a community activist, a husband and a daddy (Papa) of two boys: Winston and Franklin Van. I came from Cambodia to study in America at Middlesex Community College, Trinity College, Princeton…
Read More »From the several hours I spent along the banks of the Merrimack this afternoon, I would judge the 2013 Southeast Asian Water Festival to be one of the best yet. More than 75 vendors set up booths and, judging from the canopy tents the lined the Vandenberg Esplanade, the vendors…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shared the following essay with us: Where to begin: Well, first let us begin with a truism, it is hard being related to a famous person because you live your life in the open and sometimes you lack privacy and some of the other essentials. I…
Read More »“Atlantic Fishing Boat” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This one is for everyone going to the coast for August vacation. Salisbury, Plum Island, Hampton Beach, Seabrook, Rye, Ogunquit, Rockport, Kennebunkport, York, Portsmouth, Kittery, Wells, Newburyport, Gloucester. . .
Read More »August 12, 2013 – Monday 369 Aiken Ave Unit 17 for $110,500 (2002 for $134,900) 820 Bridge St Unit 6 for $100,000 (2009 for $70,000) 14 Llewellyn St for $90,000 (1999 for $144,900) 18 Delard St for $147,000 (1959) August 13, 2013 – Tuesday 98 Avon St for $200,00 (2008…
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