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Thursday, Nov. 18, 7 pm A lecture-performance featuring traditional folk music from all regions of Greece as played on the violin and laouto, as well as lyras from Thrace, Macedonia, Crete, and Pontos, as performed by Beth Bahia Cohen – violin and lyras, and Mac Ritchey – laouto and percussion. This…
Read More »In his latest commentary, E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post group tries to buck up the Democrats who got whacked around on November 2. He points out that the GOP fiercely attacked and stubbornly opposed President Obama for most of the past two years, and came back with a…
Read More »Columnist David Brooks in today’s NYTimes lays out his vision of how to get the nation back in gear. I won’t link to the column, but I will link to the Readers’ Comments, which are the better part of the discussion. Read the readers here, and get the NYT if…
Read More »Tony Sampas continues our observation of Veterans Day with the above photo of the POW/MIA monument on the grounds of the Lowell Auditorium and the monument (below) at American Legion Post 87 on Westford Street dedicated to Alvin “JR” Lutkus – “In honor of his service to his country”
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (4) Congresswoman (“Mrs. Rogers”) Rogers was in the middle of a line of Republican U.S. Representatives from the Lowell area who controlled the seat from 1859 to 1974, with the exception of a single two-year term for Democrat John K. Tarbox (1875 – 1877). It took…
Read More »Community Teamwork, Inc. & the Merrimack Valley Regional Network to End Homelessness Present: Lura Smith in a Gospel Concert of Thanksgiving November 20, 2010 from 12:00 – 2:00PM Eliot Presbyterian Church 273 Summer Street Lowell MA Special Guest Artists The Andover Baptist Church Unity Choir Michael Lally, Founder/Director SRO Bobby…
Read More »The city of Lowell and the Global War Veterans, an organization for those who served in the military after Vietnam, will dedicate a new Veterans Memorial at the Westlawn I Cemetery which is at 155 Boston Road (behind Edson Cemetery). Besides memorializing veterans, this site will also contain the appropriate…
Read More »More than one hundred Greater Lowell veterans, their families, elected officials and others from the community gathered at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this morning for a Veterans Day ceremony. Greater Lowell Veterans Council Commander Bob Cronin, shown above on the stage of the Auditorium, served as Master of Ceremonies. State…
Read More »Univerity of Massassachusetts Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan announced his plans yesterday to make “student life” more welcoming and comfortable for UML student veterans by opening a new student veterans center on campus. From today’s Lowell SUN: UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan said yesterday the university is planning to open a…
Read More »Lowell photographer Anne Ruthman yesterday documented the Veterans Day ceremony at UMass Lowell. See her fine images here on her blog.
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