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The news is that Governor Patrick has replaced the Commonwealth’s entire parole board, the parole office’s executive director and has suspended a number of employees of the parole office, all in response to the December 26, 2010 murder of a Woburn police officer during a robbery by a career criminal…
Read More »Tony Sampas uses companion pictures of Lowell’s earliest Roman Catholic Church to illustrate this week’s snowfall.
Read More »The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
Read More »George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
Read More »The Boston Globe and the Herald are both reporting that Robert Caret – president of Towson University in suburban Baltimore – has been chosen unanimously by the Board of Trustees as the new President of the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. Caret has New England connections – he received degrees at…
Read More »This message and comment on the late Mary Boutselis Sampas was written by our friend Mehmed Ali. With his permission it is reprinted here: Brother Tony, I heard that our own Gal Friday Mary Boutselis Sampas passed away yesterday. Last time I was home in October we had a chance to…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured up Lewis Street after the snow had stopped
Read More »The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
Read More »Mary Sampas – longtime Lowell Sun reporter and columnist and the grand dame among friends and her community – died yesterday at Saints Medical Center at the age of 93. Friend and Sun associate Nancye Tuttle remembers her here on her blog – Nancye’s World. The Sun has a front page story…
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