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Today starts and ends with some of my fellow bloggers. At 6am on City Life on Lowell cable TV channel 8, a bunch of Lowell bloggers will gather to discuss the issues of the day with co-hosts George Anthes and John McDonough. That show will be replayed at 4pm on…
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Read More »“Massachusetts Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2012. This is purple loosestrife season in the valley. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »According to the Boston Globe today, the Obama for America campaign needs help in New Hampshire because a lot of the experienced Democratic political activists in Massachusetts are signed up for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I’ve had a few people speak to me in the past month, asking how they…
Read More »UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center by night from University Crossing. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Last Thursday and again tonight I was in the audience for local musical theater. Last week it was the Lexington Youth Theatre group’s performance of The Wizard of Oz at the Grace Chapel – tonight it was The Greater Lowell Music Threatre performance of The Music Man in Concert. The…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle in the SUN wrote about the cultural entrepreneurs of the Greater Lowell Music Theatre—Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company—whose concert production of THE MUSIC MAN opens tonight at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall (7.30 pm curtain), with a second show on Saturday at the same time. Lots of advance tickets…
Read More »Steve Kornacki (center) with cameraman John-Carlos Estrada and NBCUniversal Senior Producer Brian Nerkowski. Steve is senior political writer at Salon.com and co-hosts of the Cycle on MSNBC paying a visit to UMass Lowell Libraries Special Collections at the Center for Lowell History to examine documents and artifacts from the Paul…
Read More »There’s a new blog in town – Room 50 which has “alive, unique and inspiring tales from the Office of the Mayor, Lowell, Massachusetts.” The inaugural post, written by first-day-on-the-job mayoral aide, Jennifer Myers, tells the tale of Dr. Moses Greeley Parker, not for his accomplishments in the field of…
Read More »Palmer Street Fire Station during the Lowell Folk Festival July 29, 20012 The Palmer Street Fire Station was also known as the Central Fire Station and was designed by Merrill and Cutler and erected in 1889 by the Lowell firm of Ladd and Conant. Photo and text by Tony Sampas.
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