Jay Mason, Chair of the Lowell Green Building Commission and a member of 350MA of Greater Lowell, shared the following observations about the mainstream media’s coverage of climate change this week: This past Wednesday, May 7th the Boston Globe carried a story on climate change. This is not new –…
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Photos by Tony Sampas. The tour will be repeated on Friday, May 16 at 1 pm and on Saturday, May 17 at 10 am, both starting at the Lawrence Street Gate.
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Been listening to Billy Joel in the car this week and remembering his visit to UMass Lowell in 2011—can it be that long ago already? Turns out the student who played “Leningrad” was not a Lowell student, but I didn’t know that when I wrote the post.—-PM HISTORY, LOWELL JOEL-LOWELL RHYMES…
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Reminder ~ the next GLAD Meeting is tomorrow ~ SATURDAY! The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD ) will be tomorrow Saturday May 10, 2014 at 8:00 AM SHARP! in our usual location in the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. Note: This is earlier in the month than usual. Two…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Secretary of State John Kerry prompted a diplomatic gasp and a Ted Cruz hissy fit by warning of the dangers of apartheid if Israel and the Palestinians can’t achieve a workable two-state solution. Kerry’s private comment was uncharacteristically…
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Governor Deval Patrick officially proclaimed the month of May to be Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a celebration in Lowell tonight. Held at the Sunny Da Restaurant and sponsored by the Governor’s Asian American Commission/Advisory Council and Lowell’s Southeast Asian community, the…
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From our friends at “2014 ~ Doors Open Lowell” ~ Over 25 Historic Buildings Open May 15 – 17! The 13th Annual Doors Open Lowell, presented as part of Lowell’s National Preservation Month activities, will take place May 15-17. The event offers an insider’s look into the preservation of over…
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The South Common has begun to look like its warm-season self in the past week. I was out with Ringo the dog, my family’s Boston Terrier, last week just after the first lawn-mowing on the green slopes. The smell of freshly cut grass is one of those memory scents that…
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The Charles J. Hoff Alumni Scholarship Center at 1 Perkins St., Lowell. Photo by Tony Sampas
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