Week in Review: February 23, 2014

With a Monday holiday (Presidents Day), school vacation week, a big snowstorm that cancelled Tuesday’s city council meeting, a series of smaller storms that made getting around each day a challenge, and a brilliantly sunny Saturday for Winterfest, politics was not foremost in the news this week. The biggest political…

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Chopping Ice

Web photo courtesy of usatoday.com (Andrew Peacock, Footloose Fotography, via Associated Press) I can’t remember the last time that the sidewalk in front of our house and walkways in the front yard were sealed in ice about 2.5 to 3 inches thick—the series of storms and sequence of snow, sleet,…

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FreeVerse! on Saturday night

Tomorrow night (Saturday, February 22, 2014) at 6:30 pm at the Lowell High Little Theatre, FreeVerse! will hold its 4th Annual I Think I ____ You!, a Spoken Word Poetry showcase featuring a dozen youth poets performing moving pieces “in this theatrical representation of love!” Tickets are $7 and may…

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The Civil War Recreated (in Lowell)

I just learned of a fascinating photo exhibit that’s opening on March 8 at Uncharted Gallery at 66 Merrimack Street in Lowell. Local photographer Rachel Napear spent last summer following Civil War re-enactors around Massachusetts, photographing them at every stop. The show will run for three weeks, from March 8…

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