Greeley Peace Scholars Gather at UMass Lowell

From UMass Lowell University Relations Office Contacts:  Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu and Christine Gillette, 978-934-2209 or Christine_Gillette@uml.edu World-renowned humanitarians to convene at UMass Lowell: Peace scholars to unite for special events, engage community in their work Four internationally acclaimed human-rights activists honored by UMass Lowell, including the recipient of the 2011 Nobel…

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Teaching kids to hate by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you’re Jewish, think twice about moving to Bedford, MA.  That’s the message of recent anti-Semitic incidents in that west suburban town. Elementary school children play a game called “Jail the Jews.” Swastika graffiti is discovered at an…

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Peter Aucella receives Community Spirit Award

A large crowd gathered at Lenzi’s Mill House last evening to honor Peter Aucella who received the Thomas G. Kelakos Community Spirit Award from the Kiwanis Club of Greater Lowell. Aucella, who has been a fixture in Lowell for three decades, may be the one person most responsible for Lowell…

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Community Assets

The machinery of justice grinds on in the dispute between the National Park Service and Enel Green Power North America over the future condition of the scenic and significant Pawtucket Dam at the falls on the Merrimack River in northern Lowell. The custodians of our country’s heritage treasures are trying…

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Congresswoman Tsongas hosts Secretary of Veterans Services in Lowell

Congresswoman Niki Tsongas convened a meeting of her Veterans Advisory Council yesterday with special guest Coleman Nee who has been the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Veterans Services since 2009. More than 30 veterans, many of them veterans service officers in Lowell and other Third Congressional District communities, attended the meeting. Congresswoman…

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The Forstye Saga…Great TV

I often google …“best streaming TV series on Netflix”.  Fortunately, this phase has led me to many excellent hours of quality TV viewing.  One such series is a 2002 production titled The Forstye Saga. I’ve had this PBS production in my queue for at least a year, but despite its four…

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