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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congressman Stephen Lynch was against the President’s health reform proposal before he was for it, and now he thinks that Republican efforts to repeal the law are “a colossal waste of time.” Better, he says, to focus on…
Read More »For many years I understood the importance of adding more vegetables to my diet, but I struggled to move beyond frozen peas and corn. Two years ago I discovered Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and its summer-long flow of locally grown, fresh vegetables of both the old standby varieties like sweet…
Read More »George Koumantzelis photographed this historic event at the Smith Baker Center in June 1988, on the eve of the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative. More than 1,000 people attended what was described as the most important poetry reading in America of that year. Shown here on stage are Allen…
Read More »Here are a couple of interesting videos coming out of Chelmsford. This video was posted by Teamreadyrealestate. That’s Joe Ready and his brother of Ready Real Estate having a little fun after shoveling off a clients roof. The boys are the children of the well known Dennis and Donna Ready…
Read More »John M. Guilfoil of the Boston Globe Staff write today that Cambridge City Manager – Robert Healy – is the highest paid municipal manager in the Commonwealth and he reports that Healy – quoted in a Walter Robinson /Cambridge Day article – says that he is worth every penny. Healy who has served as city…
Read More »Some of our readers may remember that Michael Millner, a professor in the UMass Lowell Dept. of English, and I are working on a new Kerouac project for Lowell. Last year, we received a $35,000 Creative Economy Initiatives grant from the UMass President’s Office to create (1) a small permanent…
Read More »The history of technology is a subject that fascinates me. Although individuals have long invented things, much technological advancement comes from corporations. As part of that interest, I keep a list of company names and their meanings. This topic came to mind earlier today when I wrote a short post…
Read More »Glamour shot “ad” promoting Melissa Leo for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Alice Ward in The Fighter In today’s Boston Globe, Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein write about Dicky Ekland’s attempt get more “spotlight” time though an interview and story in a “huge spread” in the new…
Read More »Today’s Globe carries the obituary of Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital. I never met Olsen and never worked at DEC, but the story reminded me of the glory days of the computer industry in Massachusetts in the 1980s with Digital and Wang serving as the global leaders in that…
Read More »The article below is from the Tewksbury Patch. Ryan Sullivan is the son of the late Paul Sullivan of WBZ Radio and the Lowell Sun Newspaper. Sullivan, has been an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County for the past three years. He is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk…
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