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While the trial of former House Speaker Sal DiMasi last week came to a close, the jury verdict did not signal an end to the apparently wide-ranging investigation that led to that trial. Yesterday, the Globe reported that DiMasi’s convicted co-defendant, Richard McDonough, had, according to the Globe story which…
Read More »The Lowell Small Business Assistance center is now publishing a monthly Newsletter. Highlighted this month is a new microloan program: This month the Center announced the Lowell Small Business Assistance Center Microloan Fund program. We are very excited to be able to offer financial resources to entrepreneurs while also serving…
Read More »On June 22, 1975 Universal Studios released the classic movie “Jaws”. Directed by a young Steven Speilberg, movie critics consider Jaws one of the best movies ever made. The movie stars Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as Quint and Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper. Even today, 36…
Read More »I can’t dance for “beans”. In fact I’ve always suspected that’s one of the reasons I liked Michael Jackson so much. He could do better anyone else in the world, what I couldn’t do at all, dance. If you are into creative dance you’ve got to watch this video. Its…
Read More »On this day in 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights’’ – an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services–known as G.I.s–for their efforts in World War II. Edith Nourse…
Read More »This video was originally posted on YouTube by johnboutselis13 Students of the Lowell Community Charter Public School perform traditional music at Lowell City Hall to celebrate Khmer New Year.
Read More »Club De Citoyens-American, 619 Market Street, Lowell MA USA — by Tony Sampas
Read More »About and about today: granite curbing installation continues on Wamesit Hill; quiet at the Pollard Memorial Library this morning but lots of fire apparatus in the adjacent street; many people relaxing, seeking a shaded seat in Mary Bacigalupo’s Shattuck Street Victorian Garden (above); Jerry Beck of Revolving Museum fame spotted…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If President Obama loses his reelection bid in 2012, it may be because he has disappointed so many who had such high hopes for him in 2008. This surely is not true for a relative handful of individuals,…
Read More »The Doors played the Commodore Ballroom in Lowell on August 15, 1967. Chris Simondet of The Doors site on Facebook provided that information to me. He said the show is a “phantom show” in The Doors chronology of performances and that nobody knows or remembers much about it other than…
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