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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s on blog. You can visit it here. Each year, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial page editor Tom Waseleski prepares for the New Year an aspirational list of headlines. For several years, I have shamelessly borrowed the idea and herewith present my own suggestions,…
Read More »With no city council meeting last or this week due to Christmas and New Year’s, there’s not much new to report on politics in the city. That’s good because with this being the final Sunday of 2013, it’s time to review the year in local politics. Here are some observations…
Read More »Outstanding accomplishment by the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust in partnership with the City of Lowell planning department staff, our delegation at the Statehouse, and Gov. Patrick’s administration. $1.3 million in funding to complete the Concord River Greenway land improvements and pathways. The LP&CT has been visionary and persistent in…
Read More »Yesterday morning I lugged my green rectangular recycling box out to the snowbank that serves as a curb and plopped it down on a level surface lest it slide away. The weight of accumulated newspapers and torn-up wrapping paper helped to hold it in place. A half dozen cardboard tubes,…
Read More »With Christmas in the middle, it was a slow week for real estate in Lowell: December 23, 2013 – Monday 3 Putnam Ave for $148,000. Prior sale in 2001 for $175,900 57 Stanley St for $142,500. Prior sale in 2012 for $114,000 1975 Middlesex St Unit 69 for $279,600. New…
Read More »Tony Sampas shared these photos he recently took of University Crossing which is on the site of the former St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Read More »On Christmas night and again yesterday, I noticed some Tweets on Twitter by people who had received Legendary Locals of Lowell as Christmas gifts. Thank you to all who made those selections and to those who received the book as a gift, I hope you enjoy it. The book is…
Read More »Peter Aucella, Assistant Superintendent at Lowell National Historical Park recently received the Department of the Interior’s Superior Service Award for his 24 years of vision, planning, and efforts associated with the Lowell Summer Music Series and the development of Boarding House Park. Each year, the series draws some 30,000 people…
Read More »Thanks to journalist John Collins and the Sun newspaper for reporting on artist Vassilios “Bill” Giavis’s gift of a print of one of his classic paintings to the Town of Dracut. The original painting was based on a poem of mine. Read the story here. A Hundred Nights of Winter…
Read More »In some quarters the myth of “the war on Christmas” still lingers even thrives. In truth there was a such a crusade, but it took place in 1659 and it was here in Massachusetts. A minister of that day decided that that the celebration of Christmas was becoming too merry… too profane……
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