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Watch the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony live on Saturday, Dec. 10, from Oslo, Norway, where Leymah Gbowee will accept the Peace Prize jointly with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkol Karman. See the ceremony at www.nobelprize.org
Read More »After electing five new city councilors in 1969, the voters continued to make changes in 1971 when 33,000 voters went to the polls in heavy rain and ousted three incumbents, Sam Pollard, Armand LeMay and John Mahoney while overwhelmingly defeating a proposal to change the city’s Plan E form of…
Read More »The latest UMass Lowell-Boston Herald poll on the Mass. U.S. Senate race shows Elizabeth Warren leading Scott Brown 49-42. At this moment the poll is the home-page top story on huffingtonpost.com. The election polling is a project of the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion in collaboration with the Herald. Here’s the poll…
Read More »The Pawtucketville Citizens Council received the email below from a Pawtucketville resident and is asking us to let all parents know what took place. I am writing to inform you of suspicious activity in Pawtucketville that took place this morning. One of our young baseball players was approached by a man in…
Read More »Thanks to Eileen Loucraft for sending along a front-page story from the December 5, 1942 Lowell Sun which commemorated the first anniversary of the death of two Lowell service men in the Pearl Harbor attack from a year earlier. The article, reproduced in full below, gives a sense of life…
Read More »Smokestack Christmas Tree, photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Billy Joel at UMass Lowell’s Durgin Concert Hall tonight for a conversation about the art and business of Music, with a few songs dropped in. This is a university-only event at the request of the Piano Man. He does these college visits once in a while as a way to…
Read More »Seventy years ago today the US Pacific Naval Fleet was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Over 350 fighter planes dropped bombs on the American naval force. Incredibly “one hundred eighty-eight U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded” (wikipedia).
Read More »From nbcbayarea.com, a report on efforts to serve the entire public at national parks like Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. Nationwide, the Park Service is trying to attract a more diverse audience.
Read More »Greater Lowell Community Foundation Grant Awardees from a past Philanthropy Day Last night the Greater Lowell Community Foundation presented its annual “Celebrate Giving” evening – an event held since 1998 – first as a daytime event of workshops and lunch now as an early evening event more accessible to people…
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