2011 GraceRace in Chelmsford

The Grace Race is an official USATF certified 5 mile run (walk) as well as a fundraising event to raise funds that will go to the construction and staffing of an orphanage in Naivasha, Kenya to benefit children whose parents have died from AIDS and other diseases. And the 2011…

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Book About Middlesex Community College

Pat Cook, Executive Director of Public Affairs at Middlesex Community College has written a book titled Middlesex Community College: Celebrating a Forty Year Legacy of Learning. The book details the history of the college from its opening to its present status as the biggest community college in Massachusetts. Its a…

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“Meanderings” by Jim Peters

Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares some thoughts on modern politics: I get an awfully lot of email and mail from the Democratic Party of both Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., and just once I would like to open one that says “Thank You for Your Fifty Years of Service and Allegiance…

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Notes from UTL candidates debate

While I video recorded the opening and closing statements of all the candidates at the United Teachers of Lowell candidates forum last night (see previous posts for council candidates and school committee coming maybe tomorrow night), the candidates were also asked questions of varying relevance by a panel. I didn’t…

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