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We were fortunate to have a full table for the family Easter dinner at home this afternoon. We had ham from Alpine Butcher, small red potatoes, green beans, and pineapple on the side. For dessert there was an apple pie and vanilla ice cream, plus assorted homemade cookies and a…
Read More »What? “A Community Briefing on Pawtucket Falls Overlook/Spalding House Park Developments.” Learn about exciting plans for improvements and upgrades that will enhance public access to and visibility of these significant historic locations on both sides of the Merrimack River at the falls. Who? Speakers from City of Lowell, Lowell National Historical Park,…
Read More ». Easter . To get to church you have to cross the river, First breadwinner for the town, its wide Mud-colored currents cleansing forever The swill-making villages at its side. The disinfected voice of the minister For a moment is one of the clues, But he is talking of nothing…
Read More »In the Boston Herald this morning – writer Donna Goodison puts the spotlight on Lowell’s future in the new industrial revolution. The state-of-the-art UMass Lowell Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center – opening in the fall of 2012 – is the focus for the future. Just as its famous mills are a symbol of…
Read More »The Associated Press and boston.com report that a team of UMass Lowell students won one of only six national grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency for a project aimed at improving environmental quality. A team of students at the school has set a goal to develop a new class of non-halogenated flame…
Read More »Charles Blow in today’s NYTimes and Fareed Zakaria on cnn.com both weigh in with truth squad reports on the antics of The Donald, who should be de-horsed in the GOP presidential stakes by that political party itself. The serious grown-ups on the Repub side should stand together and denounce once and…
Read More »The UMass Lowell River Hawks have a new men’s ice hockey team leader: Norm Bazin, who played for and later helped coach the UMass Lowell hockey-men. Read the news bulletin from UML Athletics and Sun report by Chaz Scoggins here. Norm Bazin, new UMass Lowell ice hockey coach From UML Athletics:…
Read More »Boston.com has a feature today on the top-ten man-made wonders in New England including: America’s Stonehenge – known as the “Mystery Hill Caves” years ago – located in Salem, New Hampshire; the Round Stone Barn in the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Bretton Woods,…
Read More »According to this story from wkyc.com, Lowell Superintendent of Schools Chris Scott is one of eight finalists for the school superintendent position in Cleveland. Here’s what the article says about Scott: Lowell, Massachusetts Public Schools Superintendent Chris Augusta Scott became the superintendent of Lowell public schools in March, 2008. Before…
Read More »What kind of nation are we living in when 47 percent of a sample of admitted Republicans respond to a NYTimes/CBS poll question by saying they don’t believe President Obama was born in the US? Opinion columnist Timothy Egan of the NYTimes lays out the dangers of demagogues like Donald…
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