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Middlesex Street, Lowell. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Leymah and Friends Receive Nobel Peace Prize
Read the AP news story about Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Tawakkul Karman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize today. Leymah was the 2011 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.
Read More »Charles Dickens Turning 200: London and Lowell Take Note
Today’s NYTimes includes a brief report about a Charles Dickens app from the Museum of London, produced for the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth, which will be on Feb. 7, 2012. Sam Antonacio has been working on something similar as a way to experience Lowell’s history, with the help of…
Read More »Leymah Gbowee Speaking Live from Nobel Prize Ceremony Now
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Read More »UMass Lowell RIver Hawks Icemen Defeat #3 BC, 3-2
RiverHawkNationUMassLowellAthletics MHOC: River Hawks Win!! they defeat #3 Boston College in a final score of 3-2! 4 minutes ago
Read More »Lowell Historic Board Winter 2012 Newsletter Just Published!
Lots of really good and interesting information here in the just published Lowell Historic Board Newsletter. Articles include an installment in an ongoing series written by LHB Administrator Steve Stowell about Lowell building architecture; Assistant Administrator Kim Zunino’s look at “neon” signage in the downtown as well as some great vintage…
Read More »Take the MVLC Survey on Evergreen
Over on the Pollard Memorial Library blog, Sean Thibodeau invites those library users – like me – who search, research and reserve books using the fairly new Evergreen system to take a survey. The regional library consortium – Merrimack Vallery Libray Consortium (MVLC) – seven months ago switched over to…
Read More »South Common Sketch
Two guys cross the playing field in the half-dark, heading for the train station. Bishop Markham Village glows amber from the night-lights on South Street, and there’s nothing moving on Summer Street, where the houses face the park like homesteads on the edge of their fields. The big tree-less bowl and floor…
Read More »‘Blue Smoke #3’ by Richard Marion
“Blue Smoke #3” by Richard Marion See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »UMass Lowell Music Grad Student Earns Grammy Nominations
Sound recording engineer Jamie Tagg of Nashua, N.H., a graduate student in UMass Lowell’s Music Dept., has been nominated for two Grammy awards for his work on recordings by Seraphic Fire, a Florida-based singing group. Read more about the Syracuse, N.Y, native at syracuse.com Gabrielle Tinto and Jamie Tagg sometimes would stand shoulder…
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