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This item by reporter Robert Burns is published on today’s HuffingtonPost.com: MANAMA, Bahrain — Hillary Rodham Clinton says her work as U.S. secretary of state will be her final public position. She told an interviewer in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain that she does not plan to run for…
Read More »Combined choirs and volunteer singers will present Handel’s “Messiah,” ending with the “Hallelujah” chorus, tonight at 7.30 pm in Durgin Concert Hall, 35 Wilder Street, UMass Lowell South Campus. Free and open to the public. Parking available in the lot at Wilder and Broadway. Don’t miss this. A brief, informal,…
Read More »Tony Sampas takes some photos from atop the University Ave Bridge.
Read More »I am sure we’ll see this skit many more times. It will surely make the best of Saturday Night Live shows in coming years.
Read More »Irish Micky Ward and Mark Wahlberg Boston Herald sports and boxing writer Ron Borges has a timely interview with Lowell’s Irish Micky Ward in today’s edition. In a few days Paramount Pictures will release the long-awaited, shot-in-Lowell movie about Ward and his fighting career culminating (in the movie) with his victory…
Read More »In my post of 11/29 about the Celebrate Giving philanthropy event of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, set for 12/6, I listed the many Philanthropist Level Sponsors of the event but somehow missed acknowledging the prime event sponsor, Enterprise Bank (EB). My apology to the folks at Enterprise Bank and…
Read More »Catching up on accumulated dead-tree newspapers from the past few days, I found a greater-than-usual collection of interesting stories. Here’s a sampling: Fox versus Fox The New York Times reports on how the animated Fox television program, The Simpsons, has taken several shots at its corporate companions, Fox News. One…
Read More »The media has been full of stories today about the press conference held by NASA to announce a paper published in Science. They haven’t done a very good job of explaining what scientists have found, so I’d like to try to clear some things up. I’d also like to use…
Read More »With a win over Stonehill College in Kentucky today, the women field hockey players of UMass Lowell earned a place in the national championship game on Saturday. Get the details on today’s game and info on the championship game coming up here courtesy of UMass Lowell Athletics. UML’s Katie Enaire…
Read More »Andrew Dreyfus, the new CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield, described a new cost-saving plan for employers and comsumers during a speech he gave on Wednesday to the South Shore Chamber of Commerce in Randolph. In an attempt to rein-in costs, Blue Cross Blue Sheils of Massachusetts has developed the Hospital…
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