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The word downtown is that Steve O’Connor’s collection of short stories, “Smokestack Lightning,” is one of the hot local gift items for last minute shoppers. It’s a little big to go in a stocking, but fits nicely under the tree. Available at Barnes and Noble, Brew’d, Dharma Buns, Welle’s Emporium,…
Read More »For the past two centuries, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rising from 280ppm to over 390ppm in 2010. This is an incontrovertible fact. What has been called into question in recent years is the source of this carbon dioxide; it has been asserted by some…
Read More »Tony Sampas photographed the Isso Shri Swaminarayan Temple at 1705 Middlesex Street during last night’s snowfall. This building formerly housed a Good Will warehouse facility and might be a familiar sight to anyone who has spent some time at the Edwards Street soccer field.
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that the first game of basketball was played on this day in 1891 at Springfield College in Massachusetts. …in 1891, the first game of basketball was played at what is now Springfield College. The game was invented by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith, a versatile athlete, theologian,…
Read More »It seems somehow appropriate that on this, the first day of winter, we finally got some snow. Certainly there’s not much of it – just a dusting. But at least it’s visible. Last night I began to wonder if the weather forecasters had messed up with their nonchalant predictions. On…
Read More »This holiday video was taken by Citizen Journalist jph0917. Just fun stuff. On December 4, 2010, Santa Clause and friends visited Billerica (MA). Here Santa comes out after visiting the elderly at the Talbot School Elderly Apartments next to St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in North Billerica. Click on picture below…
Read More »Here is a video of a large Christmas light display in Tewksbury taken by Citizen Journalist ammoguy5.
Read More »America’s First Poet, she is called. Anne Bradstreet of North Andover, originally part of Andover in the mid-1600’s when she moved to the frontier with her family from Cambridge (then Newtowne). She had sailed from England in 1630 with her husband to avoid religious persecution as Puritans. She was 18…
Read More »With great anticipation Paramount released nation-wide the Lowell based movie The Fighter last weekend. To put it in perspective…The highest grossing film over the weekend was Tron Legacy earning $43.6 million; second highest Yogi Bear with $16.7 million and third was The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader…
Read More »Several weeks ago, Tony Sampas shared some photos of the Francis Gate by night. He returned to the gatehouse during the day and took these pictures.
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