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Monument to the University of Massachusetts Lowell community (alumni and family members of alumni) who perished on September 11, 2001: Patrick J Quigley IV, Christopher Zarba, Jessica Leigh Sachs, John A Ogonowski, ’72, Robert J Hayes, ’86, Brian K Kinney, ’95, and Douglas A Gowell, ’71. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Just back from the morning dog-walk in the South Common under a sky that is not quite as crystalline clear as it was ten years ago, but close in its blue from east to west. With the late summer rain the grass is as green and thick as you would…
Read More »9/11 . In their Catholic high school, John one day sat down for lunch next to a quiet kid who needed a big friend, and the quiet kid grew up to be a teacher and never forgot what it meant to have that new friend—he told people about his friend John, the…
Read More »The NYTimes reported on today’s remembrance ceremony for Flight 93, which crashed in a field after passengers fought the hijackers for control of the plane. Read the article by Katharine Q. Seelye, and get the NYT if you want more. The passenger rebellion, he said, “is the most important battle…
Read More »Note the Sept. 15 deadline for submission of photographs for the Sustainability Snapshots project of the City of Lowell’s Dept. of Planning and Development. Here are the details. What do you want to pass on to future generations? Share your vision of Lowell. Contest Overview Nearly ten years ago, the…
Read More »After serving for 35 years as a Member of Congress representing the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District, Edith Nourse Rogers died on this day September 10, 1960 – in the midst of her nineteenth Congressional campaign, three days before the primary. Mrs. Rogers – at the urging of his supporters –…
Read More »Thursday night September 8, 2011, more than 100 people gathered at the Lafayette Club on Fletcher Street for a candidate forum conducted by the Citywide Neighborhood Council. Fifteen of the seventeen candidates participated (Rita Mercier was at a Cemetery Commission meeting and Fred Doyle at his own fund raiser). The…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats after the summer break will be held tomorrow – Saturday September 10, 20011 – at 8am SHARP at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: ongoing topics such as the status of state…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Before President Obama’s much heralded jobs speech last night, NPR’s Scott Horsley called it a “Hail Mary pass.” The reason we remember Doug Flutie’s “Hail Mary pass” is that it worked. Such last-ditch efforts don’t often result in…
Read More »Regular contributor Jim Peters shares the following essay: “First Encounter Beach” is well-known to anyone who has traveled to Cape Cod and gotten as far as Orleans or Eastham. It was the strip of land on which the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims attacked one another, with no one killed and…
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