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Post-Election Analysis by Renae Lias Claffey
Renae Lias Claffey, familiar to many in the Lowell community, has an Op-Ed piece in today’s Nashua Telegraph in which she analyzes the presidential election just past. Read her thoughts here.
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Hot Chocolate Competition
Downtown Lowell was alive this afternoon as hundreds of people traveled to the five establishments that were participating the this year’s Hot Chocolate Competition. At each place, you exchanged a quarter for a 4-ounce Dixie cup filled with hot chocolate. One was served plain, another gave you a choice of…
Read More »George S. Boutwell, Radical Republican, 1865
November 24, 2012
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In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…
Read More »Construction of UML South Campus Parking Garage
Photos by Tony Sampas. From the UMass Lowell website: The South Campus garage will provide parking spaces for 762 cars on South Campus. Tucked between Mahoney Hall and Riverview Parking Lot, the garage will be conveniently located to all South Campus facilities. The six-and-one-half level open-parking facility is a 191,000-square-foot…
Read More »Adam Marchand Art Exhibit in Somerville: ‘Inventory’
Contact: Matthew Corcoran, corcoran00@gmail.com, 978-677-1069 INVENTORY, BY ADAM H. MARCHAND, AN INSTALLATION OPENING AT THE WASHINGTON STREET ART CENTER, 10 NOVEMBER SOMERVILLE, Mass. — With Inventory, Adam H. Marchand has cataloged thirty years’ worth of his possessions on index cards. On each card (there are 2,500) he has typed brief…
Read More »President Obama in Cambodia
With a large part of Lowell’s population either from Cambodia or of Cambodian descent, we should pay particular attention to the first-ever visit to Cambodia by a sitting U.S. President. Here are some stories about the visit from that region’s media: From the Phnomh Penh Post: “Obama’s meeting with Cambodia’s…
Read More »Looking for Jack Boston
The following showed up as a comment and came to me by email. I’ve never heard of Jack Boston but thought some of our readers might have. Please leave a comment on this post if you have any info. I am looking for a picture of a man by the…
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Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Lowell Cemetery video debuts on cable TV
A couple of weeks ago, Bob and Gay Corey, two of Dracut cable TV’s most prolific producers, joined me at Lowell Cemetery for a special tour. Using footage recorded on that day, the Corey’s have produced a 60-minute video program on the historic cemetery and have agreed to share the…
Read More »Lowell High boys win state cross country championship
As reported on boston.com, the Lowell High School boys cross country team won its first ever state championship today in Northfield. While the team did not place a runner in the top ten, six of the Lowell runners finished in the top 35. This team effort was enough to give…
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