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Last week, one day around suppertime I was walking our family’s Boston Terrier on the South Common and I had what I can only describe as a sense memory. The strong sun, bright sky, dry air, grass underfoot, and voices bouncing through the park made me think that the evening was perfect…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, opinion writer Maureen Dowd smooches Gov. Andrew Cuomo big-time for what he did. Read her column here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Lowell Senior Center, formerly the City Stable, at 276 Broadway – by Tony Sampas
Read More »Popcorn, that is. The movies. “Pirates,” specifically. The likely conclusion to the highly entertaining and profitable quartet of films from Disney’s fun factory, with an assist from Jerry Bruckheimer. This past Sunday, my wife and I went to the cinema at the Methuen Loop to see Johnny Depp in “Pirates of…
Read More »In today’s Boston Herald’s there’s a staff “off the wire” report that Mark Wahlberg is keeping fit and in training for the sequel to “The Fighter.” MARK WAHLBERG is already training to film “The Fighter 2.” “Before I made the first one I knew that the second one was in…
Read More »Can I say that the Globe has gone a bit goofy with its Whitey-mania coverage? I admit that I boosted the instant commentary by James Carroll and Kevin Cullen two days ago when the story hit like a safe on a mouse. That was good writing. But they are pushing…
Read More »I’ve been waiting for somebody to do something like this–bring the people with money together and get them to pledge to hire more people to do things that need to be done. Ole Bill is bringing his Clinton Global Initiative to Chicago to do just that. Read all about it…
Read More »Nice video…originally posted by masshousingvideo providing an update on the Appleton Mills. A former factory in downtown Lowell is being redeveloped into affordable rental housing thanks in part to approximately $35 million in financing from MassHousing.
Read More »[original caption] Paul E. Tsongas (1941-1997) “Running Hard” in September of 1974 for the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District seat, U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, defeating Republican incumbent Paul W. Cronin [Tony Sampas comment] While working with the Paul Tsongas Collection at UMass Lowell Libraries’ Center for Lowell History…
Read More »Direct from the Lowell Folk Festival Organizers – an update of what to expect for opening night and Saturday night parades of the festival. More information and updates as we get closer to the festival weekend: Well, who doesn’t like a parade? And this year for the Lowell Folk Festival’s…
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