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Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band played on the Boston waterfront Tuesday night to a large crowd, including many young people, according to a colleague of mine who attended the concert. She said it was an excellent concert, but Ringo did not come out for an encore. What’s the old show…
Read More »July 1st – on this day in history in Lowell, the United States, Canada and elsewhere as noted by AP and many other sources: 1690 The Battle of the Boyne was waged in Ireland. 1848 A new railroad station on Middlesex Street in Lowell owned by the Nashua and Lowell…
Read More »[youtube]hHUiCYAE2DY[/youtube] For those of us old enough to have grown up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle constantly clash with (and always prevail over) Russian spies Boris and Natasha (shown above), news that a Russian spy ring was rolled up comes as no surprise. While the accents and trench coats remain as…
Read More »I wake up early every day, but today I got up even earlier to check on our young cat who came home from the vet’s late yesterday after being spayed. We were told to watch her closely for several days to be sure she is recovering as expected. I was…
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Read More »I’m hearing more enthusiastic comments about the upcoming music shows at Boarding House Park than I have heard in recent years. The line-up that Peter Aucella and John Marciano have put together has really made people pay attention. Opening night with the Taj Mahal Trio was a smash by all acccounts, and…
Read More »Back in 2007 – Ellen Murphy Meehan served as Campaign Chair for Niki Tsongas’ run in the special election to replace Marty Meehan. Marty served as Congressman from the Fifth Congressional District from 1993 to 2007. Tsongas loyalists and supporters just got the message by e-mail – Ellen Murphy Meehan is…
Read More »This report is from www.bostonmusicspotlight.com. Thanks for the reporting: “Furthur to jam on at Lowell Spinners’ ballpark “Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will bring their new musical project, Furthur, to Massachusetts for a special show this summer. The band will rock Lowell’s LeLacheur Park, home of…
Read More »When people who lived and worked in Lowell were trying to figure out how to revive the city in the 1960s and ’70s, one piece of wisdom that emerged during the planning was that it makes sense for Lowell as a community to invest in its assets that can’t be…
Read More »For any community, its cultural treasures come in different forms. Sometimes the treasure is a distinctive building or place in nature and sometimes it comes in the form of a living cultural treasure. Today’s SUN has two stories, somewhat related, about cultural treasures in the city. One story details the…
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