In the Merrimack Valley: State Says School Committee Needs Schooling

According to Mark E. Vogler’s  article in today’s  Eagle Tribune – the state Department of Elementary & Secondary Education presented their “District Review” to the Lawrence School Committee last week.  The review is apparently replete with findings  that members of the Lawrence School Committee and the  committee Chair – Mayor…

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‘Flankers’

Flankers . Trees change at night to rust, orange, brown. On long warm afternoons my friends and I ran downfield, catching perfect spirals, tackling each other as if trying to hurt one another when all we wanted was to be good at what we knew. Red-gold leaves surrounded us. Our…

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Coversmart: The album cover quiz site

Brett Cromwell of the Lowell Film Collaborative has launched a new website, www.coversmartquiz.com The site is for all music lovers but especially those who cherish the artwork that appeared on album covers during the past half century. Each day, visitors to the site are presented with images of several album…

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In the Merrimack Valley: Finegold Selected by The New DEAL

  Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover), 2EM Last March  – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Alaska Senator Mark Begich launched  a new non-profit group to highlight young Democratic elected officials with new ideas at the state and local level. The group, called The New DEAL  (an acronym for Developing Exceptional American Leaders)…

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New City Council Poll

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…

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