Lowell City Council Meeting: December 9, 2014

Report by Cultural and Arts Subcommittee Presentation for the city’s submission to the Bloomberg Art Challenge earlier this evening by Susan Halter from COOL. The theme will be Lowell as an art laboratory where “art will come alive in February 2015.” Recommends council endorse proposal and submission to the competition.…

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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony

Here are some photos from today’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony held by the Greater Lowell Veteran’s Council this morning at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.  Mayor Rodney Elliott and State Representative Colleen Garry offered remarks during the ceremony in the Hall of Flags.  Also in attendance were State Representative Dave Nangle…

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Lowell Week in Review: December 7, 2014

Lowell Social Media Conference Thanks to all who attended yesterday’s 2nd annual Lowell Social Media Conference at LTC.  We had some great presentations and plenty of audience participation.  The 3rd annual Social Media Conference will be held on the first Saturday in December next year (which happens to be December…

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2nd Annual Lowell Social Media Conference a great success

Thanks to everyone who attended today’s Lowell Social Media Conference.  With 61 names on the sign-in sheet, our audience grew considerably in size this year.  Thanks especially to Lowell Telecommunications Corp which co-sponsored and ably hosted the event, especially Gloria Polites and Steve Brogan.  An intern from LTC video recorded…

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‘Oranges at Christmas’

This composition was first heard as a radio essay on the “Sunrise” program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a  popular component of the morning public affairs show that was broadcast for a few years in the…

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Light Up Lowell’s Canals

One of my colleagues at UMass Lowell, Bryce Hoffman, the executive director of marketing, is still somewhat new to the city. With his fresh perspective, he suggests that we need to do more with our unique canal system, which is a big part of what makes Lowell a distinctive place.…

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Technology in Education

One of the presenters at this week’s Massachusetts Digital Government Summit was Mark Racine, the Chief Information Officer of the Boston Public Schools (and a former 5th grade teacher.  The title of his talk was Education Technologies Today and Tomorrow and my notes on his remarks are below. Yesterday I…

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