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For the first time this month the morning air was cold enough to hurt your hands if you spent more than five minutes outside. I didn’t wear gloves when I took our pup across the street. My charge was in no rush, of course, because his twice-a-day jaunts are great adventures. We…
Read More »This one is for the Bruins fans who watched the B’s shut out the Flyers today, 6-0. “Hockey Players” by Richard Marion (c) 2011 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Today December 17 is the birthday of American poet and editor John Greenleaf Whittier – born in Haverhill in 1807. He was also an ardent advocate for the abolition of slavery in the United States. hittier worked in Lowell as an editor for the Middlesex Standard in the mid-1840s. During this time…
Read More »Sixty-seven years ago today, early in the morning of December 16, 1944, a half million German soldiers achieved complete surprise by attacking the thinly held American lines along the Belgium-Luxembourg border. By the time it was over weeks later, 80,000 American soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured. In his…
Read More »University of Massachusetts Lowell way-finding sign, South Campus. Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Finally – FERC – the Federal Energy Regulatory Comission – has accepted the declaration of the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) that the Pawtucket Dam has – without question – historic and engineering significance and is individually eligible for the Historic Register. This finding is huge with FERC…
Read More »Amtrak’s southbound Downeaster train 686 is seen crossing the Merrimack River in Haverhill, MA (from railpictures.com) The U.S. Department of Transportation received 848 applications for TIGER (Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery) grants. According to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood only 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico were funded.…
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Read More »The chatter surrounding the possibilities in the Lowell Mayoral race that arose the very night of the election led some to lament such early talk about the job. When Kevin Broderick fairly quickly took a pass – newly re-elected Councilor Patrick Murphy threw his hat into the ring and promptly…
Read More »Recent revelations of child sexual abuse by longtime assistant coaches at Penn State and Syracuse, and the tawdry cover-ups and, until now, minimalist responses, have cast college sports in a very bad light. So it was with some admiration that I read this story in yesterday’s Globe about the response…
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