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Images for Memorial Day
Tony Sampas shares these images of the stained glass windows of the Pollard Memorial Library for Memorial Day.
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Is George Will Being Honest About the Motel Caswell?
Dateline Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Conservative columnist George Will jumped feet-first into a local dispute now gone viral – a lawsuit entitled United States of America v. 434 Main Street, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. We Tewksbury folk – and now lots of others – know that address belongs to the Motel Caswell. With a history of…
Read More »Obama Impersonator
This guy has the Prez down perfectly… Seen on C-SPAN: Obama impersonator Reggie Brown performed during the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.
Read More »“Grown Ups 2” @ K Mart
Hollywood visited the Tewksbury K Mart this week. YouTube user xxxrollingrockxxx2 posted this video of Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James and David Spade (I think) filming a scene from Grown Ups 2.
Read More »NYT on Tomorrow’s World Premiere of ‘On the Road’ Film
Heavy-duty media coverage of world premiere of the “On the Road” film premiere tomorrow in France at Cannes Film Festival. There will be more reporting after people see the film. Maybe they will like it.
Read More »Massachusetts Senator Charles H. Sumner Attacked
The attack on Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks (1856) MassMoments reminds us that on this day May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was viciously attacked on the floor of the United States Senate – beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks, a Congressman from South Carolina. The issue…
Read More »Black Hawk Lands in Lowell Cemetery
A Military Black Hawk Helicopter landed in Lowell Cemetery this past weekend. This video was originally posted by videoviv
Read More »U.S. and allies should stand strong in this week’s Bagdhad meeting by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find Marjorie’s blog at http://marjoriearonsbarron.com/ Six nations are heading to Baghdad this week to meet with Iran about its relentless drive for nuclear weapons. This was teed up by their meeting this spring in Istanbul. The…
Read More »Lowell’s Ben Butler Takes a Hit in the NY Times
On July 12, 1862, Harper’s Weekly featured this “before and after” cartoon about General Benjamin Butler’s controversial May 1862 General Order # 28 known as the “Woman Order” in Union-occupied New Orleans. In yesterday’s New York Times Opinionator Column, writer Terry Jones takes on Ben Butler in “The Beast in…
Read More »State Auditor Suzanne Bump & Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump was the keynote speaker at last Tuesday’s Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast which was held at the Tewksbury Country Club. Here is some of what Auditor Bump had to say: She began by quoting Barney Frank’s definition of “government” – it’s the “things…
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