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UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan talks about the schools recent acquisition of St Joseph’s Hospital, to be renamed University Crossing. These videos were originally posted by umasslowell.

Clay Buchholz of the Boston Red Sox wins 2011 Dick Berardino Award at the Lowell Spinners Alumni Awards Dinner from Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA on January 19, 2011. This video was originally posted by bkrudy.

Ivy, our Yellow Lab, celebrates her 3rd birthday today.

This video was taken right on Market Street in Lowell by jeffason10. Here is the posters description of the video: on market street this is a sharp-shinned hawk he was not getting off his catch i was 4 feet away a good shot lowell massachusetts

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s good to know that, when we’re tired of the political vitriol and the rantings of Sarah Palin as she insists she is being “blood libeled,” we can turn for sport to the most recent iteration of the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. People continue to cast about to identify lessons learned and take-away “to do” agenda items in the wake of last Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson. The overarching theme has been the need to dial back the hatred that…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Is this a wakeup call? Is it wrong to look at the unspeakably tragic shootings in Arizona as an opportunity to call for the toning down of political rhetoric and the return of civility to public discourse? I…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Often, elected officials vote yea in committee and nay on final passage of a bill so they can have it both ways. How many officials, elected or appointed, can you name who have done a complete,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor Deval Patrick is nothing if not a good speaker, and his inaugural address today was no exception. It was sobering, as appropriate to the times, yet inspiring, as appropriate to the occasion. He touched on, but didn’t…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My colleague Tom Waseleski, editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, always prepares for New Year’s Day an aspirational list of headlines from which we could all benefit. Here, with my own imprint, are the headlines I’d like…