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Big Buzz About Sequel to “The Fighter”
There’s a buzz around town, in the Hall, in the diners and on the street – local and otherwise – about a sequel to “The Fighter.” Most importantly both Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell are in on it! Wahlberg currently has a few other projects going – the film…
Read More »All Politics Really Is Local and According to Glen Johnson “Awesome”
March 24, 2011
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Don’t miss Boston Globe Politics Editor Glen Johnson’ s piece on the “Political Intelligence” page today. The Lowell references and the flurry of local town and city elections should pique our Merrimack Valley interest. Glen Johnson spent some years toiling at the Lowell SUN – so he knows only too well of which…
Read More »Funeral Arrangements for Sandy Walter, Past Lowell Park Supt.
The Sun today has details on the funeral arrangements and services for Sandy Walter, past Superintendent of Lowell National Historical Park. Here is the link. Note that donations can be made in her name to Gossnell Memorial Hospice in Maine or to the new Sandy Walter Memorial Folk Festival Fund…
Read More »Greg Page and Mass Eye and Ear
A variety of eye maladies has kept me visiting the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary regularly for the past dozen years. I’ve always been pleased and thankful for the treatment I’ve received there, so much so that this year I began making a modest donation to the hospital’s annual fund.…
Read More »Art Is a Political Flashpoint in Maine
We’re going down a bad road when politicians like the Maine governor start removing images of labor history like the mural in the Maine state Department of Labor office in Augusta that he ordered to be removed. Read the article from the Lewiston, Me., newspaper, the Sun Journal here. The Governor’s office spokesman said unnamed…
Read More »Kissing Ducks
The two Concord River ducks shown in today’s Lowell High Photo Blog selection remind us that spring has arrived.
Read More »“In Memoriam” by Nancye Tuttle
At some point during her distinguished career as a journalist, Nancye Tuttle interviewed three amazing people who recently passed away. Check out Nancye’s blog for her recollections of interviewing and writing about Jon Lipsky, Sandy Walter and Liz Taylor.
Read More »Scholar Mason Drukman on Individualism & Community
To support communal feelings, a nation must seek to preserve certain cherished institutions as well as engage in creative innovation; it must value collective responsibility as well as individual incentive; it must espouse goals over and above those of economic self-aggrandizement. If a commitment to the ends of economic individualism…
Read More »Morse Lecture Features Counterterrorism Expert Roger Cressey
F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecture & Dinner Discussion, April 7, 5.30 pm, reception; 6.30 pm, dinner & lecture. Join keynote speaker Roger Cressey, a graduate of UMass Lowell, whose vast knowledge of security and counterterrorism has led him from the halls of UMass Lowell to the White House, for a cocktail…
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