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Slaps and Claps by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Claps for the Boston Sunday Globe’s photojournalism spread by Mary Beth Meehan showing the pattern of violence in New Bedford against Mayan Guatemalans.  They fled the war in Guatamela and came here for peace and opportunity, but they’re being beaten…

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Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) To Meet ~ Saturday January 11, 2014

Reminder ~ the next GLAD Meeting this coming  SATURDAY! Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD )Regular Breakfast meetings resume for 2014 on Saturday January 11, 2014 at 8:00 AM SHARP! in the PARKHURST ROOM at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. (The Parkhurst Room is nearby the Grill – we are moving to allow 62 young…

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Chinese food on New Year’s Eve

Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. For several years I’ve been intrigued by this practice. It’s certainly common around here but is it just a Lowell thing? Or is it a New England tradition? What are the origins of this tradition? Why do people do it? Where do you get…

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The new route to Logan Airport

Yesterday I drove to Logan Airport for the first time since last Friday’s closure of the Callahan Tunnel which will remain closed until the end of March. From Lowell I took Route 3 south to Route 95/128 south to the Mass Turnpike east. I stayed on the Turnpike, passing through…

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