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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The best baseball book of 2002 was Boston Herald reporter Howard Bryant’s Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston. Even growing up with the Red Sox, until reading the book years ago at the insistence…
Read More »Ken Kesey’s Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test Bus arrived Wednesday night along with Zane Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Grand Opening, 2.30 pm, Today University Crossing will serve as a hub for the UMass Lowell campus, at the crossroads of North, East and South campuses and the community. The 230,000-square-foot University Crossing student engagement center will celebrate its grand opening on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2:30 p.m. Students, faculty,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Democratic gubernatorial candidate state treasurer Steve Grossman has narrowed the gap between Attorney General Martha Coakley and him, but it’s unclear if he can make up a remaining 12-point deficit in the last two weeks before the state primary. Right…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barrons own blog. Islamic extremists yesterday posted a video purporting to show the beheading of GlobalPost.com photojournalist James Foley, a New Hampshire native in Syria nearly two years ago. U.S. intelligence is still not confirming the grizzly death as of 7 a.m. this…
Read More »A year ago today the voters of Tewksbury at a Special Town Meeting spoke for quality of life and other community concerns. A gathering of 2,563 voters officially assembled at Tewksbury High School for a Special Town to Meeting. The issue – a Slots Parlor proposal… it was to be build on the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Who would have thought that so much of Boston would be abuzz about the new music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra? The arrival of director (designate until September) Andris Nelsons at the BSO’s Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the…
Read More »Here are some interesting facts about July 4th, 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. There were actually 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Individual delegates signed the Declaration of Independence at different times, some as late as August 1776. The only three confirmed to have signed on July 4,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Ann Coulter must have been hit on the head by a soccer ball, and it was no planned header. Her recent column , a screed against the sport and America’s growing interest in it, seems unhinged. She asserts…
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