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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. That clanking sound you hear is that of the proverbial can getting kicked down the road. That can is the much-needed solution to the federal debt. This week’s “solution” was not a solution at all. At…
Read More »Today’s Globe reports that soon-to-be former Senator Scott Brown took to the talk radio airways yesterday to swipe at Congressman Ed Markey, a likely opponent in the upcoming special election to fill the US Senate seat now held by John Kerry. Brown asked whether Markey, who has been a Congressman…
Read More »The Commonwealth’s Registers of Deeds, both those newly elected and those re-elected in this past November’s state election, gathered earlier this evening at the State House in Boston for an Administration of the Oath of Office Ceremony conducted by Secretary of State William Galvin (above). The ceremony was immediately followed…
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Read More »Former City Manager Charles Gallagher was an active participant in a writing program at Willow Manor Nursing Home in 1992 that was led by Bill Roberts, now a professor emeritus of English at UMass Lowell. Gallagher was a university student at the time, assisting Prof. Roberts. The community writing project was…
Read More »Fr. Seamus Finn, OMI – member of the Justice/Peace and Integrity of Creation Ministry – continues his work on bringing faith and values into the financial world where the Oblates and other religious organization are invested. Fr. Finn is well-connected locally in Lowell and Greater Lowell. He writes regularly on the…
Read More »On this day – January 2, 1960, U. S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massaachusetts first announced that he would run for President. He made the announcement in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, DC. I am today announcing my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. The Presidency is the…
Read More »The following is the first of a series of excerpts from books about Lowell that I will share in this new year. These brief passages about people, places, and happenings remind us of our community’s rich history and may help us notice the soon-to-be historic elements of our experience right…
Read More »Many cultures and countries have customs and traditions practiced or at least remembered on New Years Eve and New Years Day. I remember attending a French-Canadian New Years Eve traditional event arranged by our friend Mehmed Ali. The Reveillion – highly focused on food – was celebrated in historic downtown Lowell in the community room of the Shine of…
Read More »“City Hall” by Richard Marion, 1983 drawing, (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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