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If all goes right, this coming Friday, July 8 at 11:26 am, the space shuttle Atlantis should rocket into space on the final voyage of the space shuttle era. I was stationed in Germany back in 1981 when the first shuttle – Columbia – took to the skies, so I…
Read More »The Tewksbury Patch is reporting that the Stanley Cup – currently “on tour” – will be on display this Saturday July 9th at the Tewksbury Country Club. The Tewksbury Patch story tells us: The symbol of the Boston Bruins first championship in nearly 40 years is coming to Tewksbury! The…
Read More »CIO organizing poster, circa 1935 On this day July 5, 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act, which among other provisions, allowed labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act (named for its sponsor, Senator Robert…
Read More »The entry below was originally posted on Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog on July 4. You can find Marjorie’s blog here. What better day than Independence Day to contemplate the meaning of the U. S. Constitution? What better issue to use as context than the current debate about raising the debt…
Read More »The John Carson two mile road race took place yesterday in Chelmsford. Crossing the finish line first was Brian Gagnon in a time of 9:15 (lowell sun). Below is a citizen journalist video of the runners beginning the race. Video originally posted by pjm311
Read More »Stars and Stripes by Tony Sampas
Read More »I just spent the last few days visiting Washington, DC and many of the wonderful monuments and museums located there. There was the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial and the FDR Memorial. I didn’t make it to the John Adams Memorial, though, probably because there isn’t such…
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. A recall vote and the controversial building project that incited it are generating a lot of heat in Chelmsford this summer. That…
Read More »In today’s New York Times “The Opinion Pages” – Harold Holzer reminds us that in that simmering time after the Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter in April 1861, after the Baltimore Riots of April 18-19, 1861, after Lincoln ordered a naval blockade of Southern ports and after his call…
Read More »IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate…
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