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Read More »‘Massachusetts Mills’ by Richard Marion
“Massachusetts Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2012. This is purple loosestrife season in the valley. See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Governor to sign Health Care Cost Containment bill
Boston.com is reporting the Governor Deval Patrick today will sign the first-in-the-nation Health Care Cost Containment bill that was passed by the legislature at the end of July. The Act, Senate Bill 2526, is complex and far reaching and attempts to transform the way health care providers are paid, switching…
Read More »A note to our iPad readers
Last week I installed an application on this blog that detects what type of device visitors are using to view this site. If it’s a mobile device such as a smart phone or a tablet such as an iPad, this new application reformats the content of the blog and sends…
Read More »Westford Chorus Sings @ Spinners Game
“The Westford Chorus and Friends sing the National Anthem before the Lowell Spinners game” This video was originally posted by Emily Mastandrea
Read More »Helping the President in New Hampshire
According to the Boston Globe today, the Obama for America campaign needs help in New Hampshire because a lot of the experienced Democratic political activists in Massachusetts are signed up for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. I’ve had a few people speak to me in the past month, asking how they…
Read More »Gaming the games: the real olympic spirit by Marjorie Arons Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. One of my favorite childhood stories was the tale of Phidippides, the man who in 500 BC ran from Marathon to Athens, delivered the good news of a victory over Persia, and dropped dead from exhaustion. As the story goes,…
Read More »UML Emerging Technology Center
UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center by night from University Crossing. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Music and Theatre in the Greater Merrimack Valley.
Last Thursday and again tonight I was in the audience for local musical theater. Last week it was the Lexington Youth Theatre group’s performance of The Wizard of Oz at the Grace Chapel – tonight it was The Greater Lowell Music Threatre performance of The Music Man in Concert. The…
Read More »THE MUSIC MAN Opens Tonight at Durgin Hall, UMass Lowell
Nancye Tuttle in the SUN wrote about the cultural entrepreneurs of the Greater Lowell Music Theatre—Jack Neary, Lee Grande, and company—whose concert production of THE MUSIC MAN opens tonight at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall (7.30 pm curtain), with a second show on Saturday at the same time. Lots of advance tickets…
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