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To paraphrase old Walt Whitman writing about “great poets” and repeating a little something that I use at public events, I want to give a shout out to the readers, hundreds of ’em, thousands of ’em, who visit this publication again and again. You complete the loop. Today was a…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Kirby Perkins was a great political reporter, a lot of fun and a good friend. He died of a heart attack 14 years ago at the shockingly young age of 49. While he rubbed elbows…
Read More »The scenes of various locks and canals in this video are fabulous. The host of this five minute production on water power in Lowell is Shane White and his cameraman is James Strangroom. I am not sure if White and Strangroom made this video for a school project or just…
Read More »The great Minnesota Twins teams of the mid-1960’s were favorites of mine as epic opponents of the Red Sox. Tony Oliva, Jim “Mudcat” Grant, Earl Battey, Camilo Pascual, Bob Allison, Don Mincher, Zoilo Versalles, Jim Kaat, Cesar Tovar, Ted Uhlaender, Jim Perry, Rich Rollins, and the rest. Rod Carew joined…
Read More »The following was submitted for posting by frequent contributor Jim Peters: I know it is spring because of the number of calls I receive for my landscaping business, but, more importantly, for the number of people I see getting out there and sprucing up their homes and businesses, like the…
Read More »Read the latest movie gossip about the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” from indiewire.com
Read More »In doing our part to honor and support the small business community, the City of Lowell is hosting the fourth annual One-Stop Business Resource Fair at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell Inn and Conference Center on Thursday, May 19, 2011. The resource fair brings together under one roof the many organizations…
Read More »While the weather certainly hasn’t been conducive to baseball, we are well into the second month of the season. This past Sunday, the Boston Globe travel section did a feature on minor league baseball in New England. I was surprised to find that there are ten minor league baseball teams…
Read More »Don’t miss the book release party for three new books from Loom Press by writers with strong Lowell connections who have created books with strong Lowell content. The event is Sunday, May 22, 2 pm, at O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St., on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. Everyone…
Read More »I met John Kerry in Lowell when I was 18 years old, almost 40 years ago. He was running for Congress, and we know how that turned out. Nevertheless, I was impressed then, and I still like what I see most of the time. If someone is going to represent…
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