Just a quick note on more redistricting fall-out. Lost in the angst locally and elsewhere over the congressional districts redistricting plan is the shuffle in the Governor’s Council districts. In the it’s “all among friends” geograpical dance – Governor’s Councilor Marilyn Pettito Devaney has lost the First Middlesex Senatorial District to friend…
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The City of Lowell hosted a “downtown summit” yesterday at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. In attendance were business owners, downtown residents, non-profit representatives and government officials. After introductory remarks by City Manager Bernie Lynch, participants gathered in four breakout groups to discuss various issues facing the downtown. The observations and…
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Below is the “For Sale posting” for the state’s old high rise in Cambridge,MA built by Middlesex County back in the 1960’s. In its active days the building was used for administrative offices, meetings (County Commissioners) and as a jail. 40 Thorndike Street Cambridge, Massachusetts the former Middlesex County Edward…
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One morning last week I attended the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau’s annual Tourism Industry Breakfast at the Courtyard by Marriott in Billerica. State Representative Tom Golden kept things moving as the Master of Ceremonies of the event. State Senator Eileen Donoghue, the co-chair of the legislature’s committee…
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CTI will be hosting the 3rd Annual “Festival of Wreaths” event which is held in conjunction with Lowell’s City of Lights Parade on Saturday, November 26th, 2 -7pm. Admission is free. The Festival of Wreaths Gala Preview Party will be held on Friday, November 25th, 6 – 9 pm…
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The City of Lawrence continues to struggle with leadership issues. In today’s Eagle-Tribune, Mark Vogler writes of Mayor William Lantigua’s letter to Mitchell Chester, the state’s elementary and secondary education commissioner, requesting the “appointment of a Receiver, pursuant to all applicable laws within the Commissioner’s authority to assist Lawrence Public…
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Earlier this week I attended a speech by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Robert Cordy who spoke with great passion about the fiscal crisis now facing the state’s judiciary. After reviewing the extent of the funding cuts over the past five years, Cordy argued that the courts should not…
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Here’s a poem from another November, from a weekend spent with friends in central Massachusetts. The poem first appeared in Jim Dyment’s VYU arts magazine that documented Lowell’s cultural scene at the turn of the new century and kept going. You can see back issues online at www.vyumagazine.com. Jim works at…
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Who could ever forget this memorable scene from “Back to the Future” when Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) rocks his mother’s generation playing Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode Well, Michael J Fox is back and in the future will be at Middlesex Community College. Here is a glimpse of this…
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Chelmsford HIgh School Marching Band performing “The Executioner”…posted by a proud mom.
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