Paul Krugman usually is not this buoyant in his economic analyses, but in the NYTimes today he has good things to say about prospects for the manufacturing sector of the US economy. This should be of interest in Lowell, given our history, and assuming that we will need a strong manufacturing sector…
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Read all about “Porches,” the Jack Neary play coming to the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in June in this news release from the UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office. This is a production of Actors, Inc., in partnership with the UMass Lowell Center for Arts and Ideas. Jack Neary of…
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South Shore native Erica McDermott tells “The Patriot Ledger” that she “really, really” wants her Ward “sistahs” to win the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight Scene! If you saw The Fighter you’ll remember the scene when Micky’s sisters took-on his girlfriend Charlene – brawling on her front porch. McDermott…
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Kirk Street School by Tony Sampas
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This weekend there will be two tours of the Lowell Cemetery. The first will be Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1 pm. The second will be Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 10 am. The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery which is off Rogers Street next…
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To paraphrase old Walt Whitman writing about “great poets” and repeating a little something that I use at public events, I want to give a shout out to the readers, hundreds of ’em, thousands of ’em, who visit this publication again and again. You complete the loop. Today was a…
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The scenes of various locks and canals in this video are fabulous. The host of this five minute production on water power in Lowell is Shane White and his cameraman is James Strangroom. I am not sure if White and Strangroom made this video for a school project or just…
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The great Minnesota Twins teams of the mid-1960’s were favorites of mine as epic opponents of the Red Sox. Tony Oliva, Jim “Mudcat” Grant, Earl Battey, Camilo Pascual, Bob Allison, Don Mincher, Zoilo Versalles, Jim Kaat, Cesar Tovar, Ted Uhlaender, Jim Perry, Rich Rollins, and the rest. Rod Carew joined…
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The following was submitted for posting by frequent contributor Jim Peters: I know it is spring because of the number of calls I receive for my landscaping business, but, more importantly, for the number of people I see getting out there and sprucing up their homes and businesses, like the…
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Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com
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