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This, the first Spinners YouTube video of the season is solid proof that summer is right around the corner.

video description: Originally posted by Andrey9161 The airplane is made by UMASS LOWELL engineering students for DBF 2012 competition.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Be sure to check it out too. We won’t know for some time the long-term impact of the Arab Spring or which nations will thrive, but, for now, the United States views Tunisia as a model of what…

On Sunday, May 20, 2012, Lowell General Hospital will hold its 13th annual TeamWalk for CancerCare. Last year, with the help of our generous corporate partners and more than 5,000 participants, TeamWalk raised $854,000 to support services for patients in our cancer center. Since its inception, TeamWalk has raised more…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. From the public’s perspective, there’s never a good time to give a public official a raise. That’s why Newton Mayor Setti Warren’s inclusion of a 28 percent ($27,125) pay hike in his proposed fiscal 2013 budget is probably…

This is a fascinating video of Fletcher’s Quarry in Westford taken close to twenty years ago. The video was originally post by nhrman.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Boston Marathon is all about tradition, and not just for the runners. I’ve lived within walking distance of the marathon for most of my life, going back to my childhood not far from the Commonwealth Avenue route…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. Democratic consultant Hilary Rosen, a CNN commentator unaffiliated with the Obama campaign, made a dumb remark that quickly became a media obsession. Ann Romney, she asserted, shouldn’t be called on to speak about economic…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It never made sense to me, but now it does. I never thought this was the time for the President to open temporarily the spigot of the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve,  the world’s largest supply of emergency crude…

Last Wednesday at the Appleton Mills in Lowell Mass Innovation Nights,  ran an “event designed to leverage the local social media community.  Every month the event showcases a wide range of new and innovative products from local companies.  Mass Innovation Nights is marking its third anniversary and the first event…