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Screen and Twitter pics from the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast ~ US Senator Elizabeth Warren greets hundreds at the breakfast ~ Head Table with State Senator/ candidate for Treasurer Barry Finegold at the far left, Senate President Therese Murray left of podium, Congressman Stephen Lynch seated to the…
Read More »Lowell’s Image Theater will be producing its 4th annual festival this year to celebrate women writers for the stage. Jerry Bisantz sent the following information about this year’s event: Femnoire: The Women’s Playwriting Festival March 28, 29th at 8PM The Whistler House Museum 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA Tix $19…
Read More »The following article by James Ostis appeared in this week’s edition of Khmer Post USA Culture meets Creativity with Flying Orb Productions By James Ostis It started with book covers. Around 2005, Lowell photographer Jim Higgins needed models to appear in cover images he was shooting for various publications. A…
Read More »It was Irish Cultural Week 2014 in Lowell. As the family prepared for his wake and funeral Paul Sheehy’s voice was heard at The Acre Forum as he recalled growing up in his beloved Acre. As St. Patrick’s Church filled with hundreds of family, friends, colleagues and admirers to mourn, celebrate and…
Read More »City Manager Selection Process At noontime on Monday Bernie Lynch walked out of Lowell City Hall and ended his seven plus year tenure as Lowell City Manager. At 12:01 the Michael Geary administration began. The will be short-lived because Geary did not apply for the position on a permanent basis…
Read More »Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, I lived in a mostly French-Canadian ethnic world. Two sets of my first-cousins had an Irish-American mother and father respectively. St. Patrick’s Day for my father meant a green tie with a shamrock for Mass on the Sunday closest to March 17. My…
Read More »“Hurd Street Movers” by Richard Marion [original, 1979] (c) 2014 Click on the image to see it larger. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Here are real estate sales in Lowell for the past week: March 10, 2014 – Monday 70 Fourth Ave for $50,000. Title acquired from tax taking 42 Wellesley Ave for $290,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $289,000 March 11, 2014 – Tuesday 1021 Middlesex St Unit 2 for $155,000. Prior…
Read More »Today March 15, is the infamous Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of Roman Senators led by Brutus and Cassius. The murder became the subject of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Consequently, most high school students readily remember the eerie…
Read More »Reminder ~ the next GLAD Meeting is tomorrow / SATURDAY! The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD ) will be tomorrow Saturday March 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM SHARP! in our usual location in the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford. (Some members may be leaving to attend Paul…
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