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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. There was a time when former Congressman Barney Frank said you couldn’t pay him enough for sitting on a panel with Karl Rove. As it turns out, he mused, “you can.” Frank is doing well on the speaking…
Read More »Happy Father’s Day to my colleagues Dick and Paul and to my husband Bill and all those fathers – some who have passed on – so important in our lives. Below ~ Father’s Day as a Norman Rockwell image.
Read More »These Bruins are fun to watch. The first two games of the NHL championship series have been as good a display of hockey as I remember seeing. One of the TV announcers quoted a writer who declared, “If these two teams played 100 games, each would win 50.” Maybe so.…
Read More »Congratulations to the organizers of today’s Lowell African Festival for another wonderful event. After a long string of nasty weather, they could not have had a better day for the festival weather-wise. I stopped by late this afternoon and found a big crowd enjoying the steady stream of live music…
Read More »I bumped into the always interesting Jerry Bisantz today and asked him to send me info about his upcoming Image Theater event. Please consider attending. Three original short plays and three short films will be presented by Lowell’s Image Theater on Friday, June 21st upstairs at The Old Court Pub…
Read More »I don’t know if the program was un-partisan, bipartisan, non-partisan, or post-partisan, but last night’s uplifting presentation by Former First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna Bush Hager left me feeling that Mrs. Bush has a lot of good work left to do in what she called “the afterlife”…
Read More »Real estate sales in the city during this past week: June 10, 2013 (Monday) 40 Sayles St for $185,000 799 Chelmsford St for $231,700 581 Lakeview Ave for $150,000 June 11, 2013 (Tuesday) 309 Lawrence St fro $185,000 23 Read St for $180,000 June 12, 2013 (Wednesday) 45 Jewett St…
Read More »From This Day in History from History.com: On this day in 1777, during the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing…
Read More »Last night was a busy one for the politically inclined in Lowell with State Senator Eileen Donoghue hosting an event at Cobblestones, City Councilor Bill Martin hosting another at Long Meadow, and Council candidate Derek Mitchell having a campaign kick-off at the Club Passe-Temps on Moody Street. Those trying to…
Read More »Reminder for next GLAD Meeting This coming SATURDAY! Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday June 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Please join us at this meeting of area Democrats. Marie Sweeney, GLAD Chair For more information: sweeney133@verizon.net AGENDA: The regular agenda…
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