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While searching for a Saints Medical Center photo this morning I came across this image on Corey Sciuto’s great website. Corey has some terrific Lowell photos including some sent to him by others. The above photo comes from Ken Coffin, who worked as a photographer with City Fair in Lowell in…
Read More »There’s a report in today’s Boston Globe that there is a tentative agreement in place for the Steward Health Care System that recently purchased the Caritas hospital system to acquire Saints Medical Center in Lowell. For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, with community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expected…
Read More »State Senator Barry Finegold (D – Andover) Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) who represents the Second Essex Middlesex District covering the communities of Andover, Dracut, Lawrence and Tewksbury has released his office hours schedule for early in the month of April: MONDAY, APRIL 4. Dracut Council on Aging – 951 Mammoth…
Read More »Donald Trump has begun in earnest to make a mockery out of the electoral process that will ultimately lead to the election of a president. In Trump’s never ending pursuit to increase his own celebrity status, he has released a copy of his birth certificate as a sign of his…
Read More »As the month of March – Women’s History Month winds down – MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 29, 1880, twenty women voted for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. This new voter group was led by renown writer Louisa May Alcott who “campaigned” door-to-door urging women…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I listen to Cong. Michael Capuano and Niki Tsongas criticize President Obama for not taking the Libyan military action to Congress and, as an old anti-Vietnam War activist, I applaud their stance. It’s hard not to be concerned…
Read More »While at the reception following the funeral for former Lowell National Historical Park Supt. Sandy Walter today, someone at my table received a message via Blackberry that Geraldine Ferraro had died. One of Sandy Walter’s first public events in Lowell was the dedication of the “Homage to Women” sculpture by Mico Kaufman…
Read More »Current Congressional Legislative Districts from the Special Joint Committee Website In the continued effort to get local citizen input, the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting has posted additional hearing dates and sites on the SJCR website. This is a list of the hearings schedule to date: — Saturday, March 26, 10…
Read More »Don’t miss Boston Globe Politics Editor Glen Johnson’ s piece on the “Political Intelligence” page today. The Lowell references and the flurry of local town and city elections should pique our Merrimack Valley interest. Glen Johnson spent some years toiling at the Lowell SUN – so he knows only too well of which…
Read More »We’re going down a bad road when politicians like the Maine governor start removing images of labor history like the mural in the Maine state Department of Labor office in Augusta that he ordered to be removed. Read the article from the Lewiston, Me., newspaper, the Sun Journal here. The Governor’s office spokesman said unnamed…
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