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Tony Sampas views Lowell City Hall by night in early December. “Peace on Earth”
Read More »Blogger meet-up this Saturday
This Saturday (December 4) anytime between 9 am and 11 am, everyone is invited to stop by Top Donut at 700 Aiken Street in Lowell (at intersection with VFW Highway, just across the river from Lelacheur Park) for a Greater Lowell Blogger Meet-up. It’s just an opportunity for folks who,…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley – Three Finalists for Presidency of NECC
Higher education is the life’s blood of the economy in Massachusetts, so it’s no surprise that stories about searches, salaries, rankings and more are constantly in the news. While much of the focus lately seems to be on replacing the presidents at the University of Massachusetts, Suffolk University and the…
Read More »Marty Meehan’s decision to stay put for now by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. By all accounts, Marty Meehan has done a terrific job at UMass Lowell, expanding the campus, lifting academic standards, sharpening connections with the business community, raising funds and enhancing the overall brand of the university. Not surprising then…
Read More »Chelmsford High Class of 1980 Reunion
This video from dteubner is of Chelmsford High School’s 1980 graduating class reunion. Do you see anyone you know? Here is the video poster’s description… Here we are at the Chelmsford High School 30th reunion. We’re the class of 1980. Video excerpts from the November 26, 2010 event held at…
Read More »A Walk In Lowell
This is an interesting amateur video from jphauker92 who is enjoying some of the simple sights and sounds in his Lowell neighborhood.
Read More »UML’s Meehan Seeking Suffolk Seat?
December 2, 2010
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Marie
Posted in Greater Lowell, Lowell, Culture, Current Events, Education
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The scoopers at the Boston Herald’s InsideTrack are speculating this morning that UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan may have re-set his sites on a university presidency – this time it’s Suffolk University. Meehan who took himself off the list of candidates for the UMass presidency fanned the flames of the Suffolk…
Read More »Trillions and Trillions of Stars Now
Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Or should I say nothing new about what we think we know under the sun? Remember when Carl Sagan used to say “billions and billions” in his unmistakable voice? Scientists from Yale and Harvard now say there are three times as many…
Read More »Economic Patriots. . .
December 1, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Current Events, Election 2010, History, Lowell, Politics
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Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, this week wrote about wealthy Americans who are saying they are more than willing to pay their fair share of taxes, and a little more if needed. Read her column in The Washington Post here, and get The Nation if you want more. I picked…
Read More »The Civil War: Secession and Slavery
By the fall of 1864, Union commander Ulysses Grant had concluded that the surest way to end the Civil War was to decisively defeat the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee and the surest way to do that was to continue to drive on Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.…
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