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There are many ways that we measure the strength of candidates during a city council election. How many signs do we see? Or bumper stickers? Local radio station WCAP does a telephone poll the Saturday before the election. None of those are scientific or perhaps even accurate, but they give…
Read More »If you want to attend housing expert Karl “Chip” Case’s Lunchtime Lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, you should register today because the seating is limited to 100 and not many seats are left. The lecture is on Monday, Oct. 3, at 12 noon. Contact artsandideas@uml.edu or call…
Read More »Do you use Twitter? Would you like to use Twitter? Do you want to meet a bunch of people in Lowell who are active on Twitter? If you answered yes to any of these questions, stop by Fuse Bistro (the former Cafe Paradiso) at the corner of Palmer and Middle…
Read More »ABOVE – Merrimack Canal reflecting on Boott Mill BELOW – Boott Mill reflected on the Merrimack Canal photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »History.com reminds us that on this day September 26, 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in the city of Chicago. Presidential hopefuls Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off in a television studio to discuss “domestic matters.” Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from…
Read More »An Evening with Andre Dubus University of Massachusetts Lowell faculty member and New York Times Best-Selling Author Andre Dubus III will be discussing his latest work – Townie – at the Tewksbury Public Library on Tuesday September 27, 2011 at 6:30pm. A book sale and signing will take place after…
Read More »In New York Magazine, political and cultural observer Frank Rich urges President Obama to fight hard for the America he envisions. Read the article here, which I picked up from huffingtonpost.
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. One reason I started writing columns was to respond to things I read in the newspapers. Informed people will come to different…
Read More »The final tour of Lowell Cemetery for this fall occurred yesterday morning. Despite the abysmal forecast for this weekend, the 42 folks who joined us on Friday afternoon and the 30 present yesterday morning traversed the cemetery without a drop of rain interfering. For the three years that I’ve been…
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