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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…
Read More »Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com
Read More »In doing our part to honor and support the small business community, the City of Lowell is hosting the fourth annual One-Stop Business Resource Fair at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell Inn and Conference Center on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The resource fair brings together under one roof the many organizations…
Read More »Don’t miss the book release party for three new books from Loom Press by writers with strong Lowell connections who have created books with strong Lowell content. The event is Sunday, May 22, 2 pm, at O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St., on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. Everyone…
Read More »I met John Kerry in Lowell when I was 18 years old, almost 40 years ago. He was running for Congress, and we know how that turned out. Nevertheless, I was impressed then, and I still like what I see most of the time. If someone is going to represent…
Read More »This invitation is also posted over at Left in Lowell. It’s important enough to post here as well. As someone who was a facilitator in the “Save the 5th” effort back in 2001 when the then Speaker of the House had the 5th obliterated from the redistricting map, I want…
Read More »Along Thorndike Street by Tony Sampas
Read More »The Lowell Historical Society held its annual meeting yesterday at Middlesex Community College’s Federal Building. Despite the heavy rain and impressive crowd of more than 60 folks showed up to hear a three member panel discuss various aspects of Lowell’s involvement in the American Civil War. Jack Herlihy of the…
Read More »This is a baseball card that I never owned. Somehow, this one never showed up in a five-cent package of cards when I was 11 years old. The 1965 Topps baseball card series is my favorite for several reasons : the Red Sox line-up of heroes of that time, the design,…
Read More »After the great success of “The Fighter”, Hollywood returns to the city of Lowell this week to film “Here Comes the Boom”, an action-comedy starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler. The film is about a high school science teacher who becomes involved in mixed martial arts in an…
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