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Greater Lowell Area Dems (GLAD) to Meet on Saturday April 16, 2011
The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held this coming Saturday April 16, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: ongoing topics such as the status of the 5th District and legislative redistricting plans and the Joint Redistricting Committee hearing…
Read More »Massachusetts Passes First Education Law
MassMoments remind us that on this day – April 14, 1642 – the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World requiring that children be taught to read and write. It was an incredible step for education. While not a universal mandate at the time, it did…
Read More »First Mayor of Lowell – Dr. Elisha Bartlett
April 14, 2011
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Marie
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Dr. Elisha Bartlett – First Mayor of Lowell Massachusetts. Portrait in Oil – Thomas Bayley Lawson. Portraits of forty-one former mayors have been hung in the City Hall in tribute. This presentation is part of the celebration of the 175th anniversary of Lowell’s incorporation as a city. Do not miss the Jen Myers…
Read More »E.J. Applauds President Obama’s Speech on Federal Budget
E. J. Dionne, a native of Southeastern Mass. and opinion writer for the Washington Post, gave thumbs up to President Obama for his speech about how we can best manage the federal budget. Read his column here, which I picked up from Facebook friend Nomi Herbstman (who grew up next…
Read More »First CCC Recruits Arrive at Fort Devens
Mass Moments reminds us that on this day – April 13, 1933 – the first enrollees in the Massachusetts Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) arrived at Fort Devens in Ayer. Creating the CCC was an effort by newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to attack “the catastrophic unemployment and economic dislocation…
Read More »For the Philatelic Civil War Buffs Among Us
These undated images provided by the US Postal Service shows forever postage stamps commemorating the first year of the Civil War: the first battle of Bull Run in Virginia, top, and Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The Postal Service released the two new stamps commemorating the first year of the…
Read More »A Few Realities of H.R. 1473 – the Continuing Resolution
April 12, 2011
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Marie
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President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 2011 the same day he signed a short-term continuing resolution bill that will keep the federal government operating long enough for Congress to vote on a budget deal reached late Friday. From the House Appropriations Committee – from Ranking Democrat Rep…
Read More »The Civil War Begins – April 12, 1861
Bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861) by Currier & Ives. From History.com – On this day April 12, 1861, the bloodiest four years in American history began when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours,…
Read More »Thou shalt not…
Heads-up everyone! As Easter and the time for those traditional rituals such as Easter Baskets and Easter Egg Hunts and the surprise of the cute and cuddly draws near, note this item in Massachusetts Law and Regulation as promulgated on CBS/Boston.com: In Massachusetts it is illegal to sell rabbits, ducks, or chickens that have…
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