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George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died Friday at age 94. His funeral was held yesterday at the Washington National Cathedral and he will be buried today on the grounds of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. Since his passing,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When we mourn the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, we are mourning the passing of an era, a time when public service was an honor, military service was an important component, when politicians would reverse…
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster: NEA Fellowship, New Book Completed, & More We caught up to a busy Kate Hanson Foster on the Groton frontier, where she lives with her husband, Bert, and their three children. She reports that the garden is pulled up and they just stacked a cord of wood…
Read More »Notes from tonight’s (relatively uneventful) Lowell City Council meeting. ROLL CALL MAYOR’S BUSINESS Designation – Lowell as a National Wildlife Refuge. 80% of Americans live in cities but have little contact with wildlife refuges. This grant program helps highlight work done in cities (especially here by Lowell Parks and Conservation…
Read More »Last week I attended a presentation by UMass Lowell professor (retired) John Wooding in which he provided an update on his quest to make Lowell a UNESCO City of Learning. That designation is applied to cities around the world – there are 140 so far, but none in the U.S.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congressional leadership of the Democratic Party is going to change. It’s not a question of whether but how and when. Despite the best efforts of North Shore Congressman Seth Moulton, who is spearheading the movement to depose former…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council meeting has a lengthy agenda mainly due to last’s week meeting cancellation. PUBLIC HEARINGS There are three items that require a public hearing prior to a vote. Vote to Adopt the Minimum Residential Factor for FY 2019.…
Read More »David Moloney of Lowell: Forthcoming Novel, High Praise Bloomsbury Publishing will release David Moloney’s first novel, Barker House, in February 2020. He’s a Lowell resident and graduate of UMass Lowell and Southern New Hampshire University (master’s degree in creative writing). David’s novel has earned outstanding advance notices from well-known writers.…
Read More »Instead of “Lowell Week in Review” today’s post could be more accurately called “Lowell City Council in Review.” Last week I wrote about the upcoming 2019 City Election by reviewing the results of the 2017 election and the career electoral accomplishments of the current city councilors. Today I begin a…
Read More »Dave Robinson: Writer-in-Residence, Portugal Checking in with writer, poet, and multifarious arts guy Dave Robinson, we learned that he’s back from a Writer-in-Residence gig at Cultívamos Cultura in São Luis, Portugal. He was at the arts center in a dual role with his wife and creative partner, Anna Isaak-Ross, an…
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