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from John McPhee’s introduction to Thoreau’s ‘A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers’

August 7, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, Greater Lowell, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

“… Just as he describes it, the Concord narrows dramatically and shallows out over a ‘yellow pebbly bottom’ as it approaches the falls in Billerica, where the Thoreaus went off on the Middlesex Canal and where Kaz and I were to rendezvous with my wife, Yolanda Whitman, in her Odyssey.…

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‘Smokestack Chair’ by Richard Marion

August 7, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture Leave a Comment

“Smokestack Chair” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net    

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Steve Gendron for School Committee website

August 6, 2013 by DickH Posted in Election 2013 2 Comments

Above is a screen shot of the new Steve Gendron for Lowell School Committee website. You can find the actual website is here. Steve’s Twitter account (which is here), announces that he will be a guest on WCAP radio tomorrow morning at 8:15. Below is a portion of the “About…

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Health and Social Sciences Building UMass Lowell, South Campus

August 6, 2013 by DickH Posted in Lowell Leave a Comment

Photo by Tony Sampas

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Learn More about Gaming and Gambling as allowed in Massachusetts

August 6, 2013 by Marie Posted in Politics 2 Comments

  A row of “Wheel of Fortune” slot machines in a casino in Las Vegas. This specific slot machine is themed to the TV game show Wheel of Fortune. With the Legislature allowing the licensing of three casinos and one Slots/casino for Massachusetts, you might want to learn more about…

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‘Red Swirls’ by Richard Marion

August 6, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture Leave a Comment

  “Red Swirls” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net  

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John Henry gets new toy: Globe future still in question by Marjorie Arons-Barron

August 4, 2013 by Tony Posted in Uncategorized Leave a Comment

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I don’t know John Henry.  We’ve been introduced at fundraising events a couple of times; there was no extended conversation.  He seems very nice, if shy.  I have no reason to think he’ll ruin the Boston Globe, which he…

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The Buddy System: Blues Legend at Boarding House

August 4, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 1 Comment

Buddy Guy drove his musical Mack truck right through the center of a packed Boarding House Park this past Saturday night and left everybody staggering from the blues wallop that he put on us. We go to the pavilion on these nights like lowly moths drawn to lamps, hoping to…

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2013 City Election candidate websites

August 4, 2013 by DickH Posted in Election 2013 Leave a Comment

The deadline for submitting nominations papers for this fall’s city election is fast approaching so the field is almost set. I’ve compiled a list of most of the candidates for city council and school committee and have listed them below in the order they would appear on the November ballot.…

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Statement from Mayor Patrick Murphy

August 3, 2013 by DickH Posted in Current Events, Lowell, Politics, City Council 5 Comments

Mayor Patrick Murphy shared the following statement: The other week my family took a trip out to Carlisle where Hale’s Brook begins in a quiet cranberry bog. We followed the brook from there through Great Brook State Park, and later Mill Pond, and continued on until we reached its start…

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