Political bits and pieces from rambles around the Merrimack Valley, Middlesex County and beyond ~ “Sticks, stones, rocks and bolders” are being hurled around NH in the US Senate race even as across-the-border locals turned out in Dracut to financially support GOP Scott Brown vs incumbent N. H. Senator – Democrat Jean…
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This is a cross-post from our friends at Lowell Irish… St. Patrick Cemetery Tour – Saturday, September 27, 2014 St. Bridget Chapel, St. Patrick Cemetery, Lowell, MA Please join us on Saturday, September 27 for our annual tour of St. Patrick Cemetery. The tour starts at 10 am at the…
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The City Council and Downtown Instead of travelling to a distant location for a summer vacation I stuck around New England and made short trips to cities like Boston, Salem, and North Adams in Massachusetts, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine. Anytime I go to such places I always compare…
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August 25, 2014 – Monday 38-40 Fairfield St for $359,250. Prior sale in 2003 for $355,000 19-25 Merrimack St for $485,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $500,000 August 26, 2014 – Tuesday 171 Upham St for $324,900. Prior sale in 2004 for $318,000 100 Rogers St Unit 1 for $110,000.…
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If you know me you know that I like to write and I like to express my views. But I’ve written perhaps only two or three “letters to the editor” over the years. One was to clarify the fact that contrary to the sign in their window – it wasn’t…
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I’m late in posting, or re-posting, this sketch that I wrote in 1991 and which has appeared a few times on this blog. The loosestrife shows up in high summer along the rivers and in wetlands all over the region. This past week in local vacation travels I noticed patches…
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City Auditor Report: 2009–2014 Surveillance Spending Report. Mayor relinquishes chair to Vice Chair Leahy. Mayor finds many things troubling including that names of investigative subjects were blacked out on original invoices. This should be investigated. Says the city should have a list of people who were followed. Also dismayed that…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to be happy that the Market Basket board approved Arthur T. Demoulas’ buyout of the supermarket company. Not that I shop there; there isn’t one near me. But my sister does, and praises its bargains.…
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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…
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Who wins with this resolution of the Demoulas drama? Out of the gate, it looks like everyone wins after six weeks of pain. As a lot of us in this region go back to Market Basket as full- or part-time shoppers and/or employees, let’s hope that the “more” in “More…
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