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Happy Birthday, Ivy
Ivy, our Yellow Lab, celebrates her 3rd birthday today.
Read More »Lowell SUN Writers Win NENPA Awards
Next month the NENPA – the New England Newspaper and Press Association – will recognize writers, editors and photojournalists from the Lowell SUN with nine awards. The association will gather for its annual convention and dinner at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel on February 11-12. While the final placement has not…
Read More »Hawk on Market Street
This video was taken right on Market Street in Lowell by jeffason10. Here is the posters description of the video: on market street this is a sharp-shinned hawk he was not getting off his catch i was 4 feet away a good shot lowell massachusetts
Read More »Review of MRT’s “Tryst” by Nancye Tuttle
Nancye Tuttle calls Tryst “captivating, frightening and all-enveloping. Read her review of the Merrimack Repertory Theater’s latest play on Nancye’s blog.
Read More »Abbott Grave, Lowell Cemetery
Marie just did a post about efforts to save the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, the place where Lowell resident Henry Abbott was killed in action. Above is a photo of his monument in the Lowell Cemetery, which sits alongside an identical monument for his brother Edward, who was killed earlier…
Read More »The Lowell Connection: The Fight to Save Civil War Battlefields
As the Sesquicentennial remembrance of the American Civil War begins, battles continue for ground considered sacred by many but just land and areas ripe for commercial development by others. Back in July we blogged about the plans for a new casino – too close for some to the blood-soiled battlefields…
Read More »Sorting out the Mommy wars by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s good to know that, when we’re tired of the political vitriol and the rantings of Sarah Palin as she insists she is being “blood libeled,” we can turn for sport to the most recent iteration of the…
Read More »Another ‘Fighter’ & Writer: Andre Dubus III in Globe Mag
In the Boston Globe Magazine today, the Boston Uncommon feature highlights author Andre Dubus III of UMass Lowell and Newbury because he has a new book due out in February, “Townie,” a memoir about growing up and boxing and writing in Haverhill. Read the Q & A here, and get the Globe…
Read More »“Standing up to MTV” by Steve O’Connor
Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor share some thoughts on Comcast, MTV, and that cable channel’s controversial new show, Skins: I spent a half hour on the phone yesterday, half of that on hold, with Comcast. I had been watching a report on CNN earlier about a new drama called “Skins” to…
Read More »Lowell Sun: Disqus in; Topix out
Perhaps I should wait until tomorrow for this post, because I have something positive to say about the Lowell Sun and a day when the temperature might not rise above 0 degrees would be somehow appropriate for that. But this news is too important to wait. The Sun is discontinuing…
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