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Last Wednesday the founder of this blog Dick Howe – widely known these days as the “blog father” – was honored by Community Teamwork at the 2013 Community Action Awards ~ Special Tribute to Innovative Communicators. CTI Board President Germaine Vigeant-Trudel offered these words about Dick Howe as she presented the…
Read More »The East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group has scheduled the following meetings: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 7 pm Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7 pm All meetings take place at the McAvinnue School at 131 Mammoth Road. Topics to be discussed are neighborhood issues and planning for the 2nd Annual Franco-American…
Read More »Kicking the Leaves by Donald Hall 1 Kicking the leaves, October, as we walk home together from the game, in Ann Arbor, on a day the color of soot, rain in the air; I kick at the leaves of maples, reds of seventy different shades, yellow like old paper; and…
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Read More »“Chelmsford Street Kitchen” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 (original drawing, 2004) See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Today’s New York Times. Page A-13. National section. Full-page ad. UMass Lowell Is Rising. There’s more to the ad, with quotes from Forbes, US News & World Report, PayScale, and Washington Post attesting to the momentum and results at UMass Lowell as a result of recent growth, expansion, and rising…
Read More »“Safety is, at its core, a feeling. Statistically, we know that most of us won’t ever be direct victims of a crime such as gun violence. But we are all victims when we do not feel safe in our own community.” —Van Pech Van Pech, a candidate for Lowell City…
Read More »Jay Mason of 350MA of Greater Lowell, a local group that advocates local action and policies on the environment and sustainability, believes that these policies must be addressed at the local level. He has submitted a question that he hopes all candidates for Lowell City Council will answer. His question,…
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Read More »From the archives at the John F. Kennedy Library: Fenway Park, Boston. April 1946. Ted Williams, Eddie Pellagrini, John F. Kennedy, and Hank Greenberg. Photographer not noted. Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. In 1946 – James Michael Curley, the legendary local politician was serving…
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