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University of Massachusetts Lowell Thursday, December 2, 2010 2:00 – 8:00 p.m. UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center 50 Warren Street, Lowell MA UMass Lowell’s Center for Women & Work hosts Women’s Works: A Celebration of the Creativity of Women. This event will be part craft fair, part art show,…
Read More »I spent last weekend, including Thanksgiving, in Wells, Maine. You can just image my shock when told that Sheriff Jim DiPaola committed suicide in Wells Friday night. When I heard the news I immediately checked the Internet and discovered DiPaola spent his last moments in Lafayette’s Ledgeview Ocean Resort. The…
Read More »Versatile actor Leslie Nielsen has died. Although he is better known for his comic roles in “Naked Gun” and “Airplane,” I’ll always remember him first for playing General Francis Marion, “The Swamp Fox” of the Revolutionary War, in the eight-part Disney TV series that ran from 1959 to 1961. Disney had bet…
Read More »After ten years of hosting and maintaining websites, I fully understand that unexpected problems do occur, so I have a bit of sympathy for Comcast over last evening’s massive outage of that company’s internet service. But not too much sympathy, because Comcast is, after all, a billion dollar company that…
Read More »Next Monday, Dec. 6, at 5.30 pm, the Greater Lowell Community Foundation will announce its 2010 grant recipients, volunteer award recipients, and other awards at an event featuring keynnote speaker Paul S. Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation. The evening begins with a reception in the Hall of…
Read More »Donald Trump may rule the Miss Universe/Miss USA/Miss Teen USA franchise but this weekend it was all about Miss Massachusetts and Miss Teen Massachusetts 2011 and the pageant site was in Lowell. Using a venue like the Lowell Memorial Auditorium was a first for this pageant. The audience, the organizers and…
Read More »On the GOP side – State Representative-elect Paul Adams is also under the scrutiny of the Eagle-Tribune. As noted in today’s Keith Eddings article – there’s a question as to the source of his campaign funds: None of the 338 candidates who ran for the Massachusetts House of Representatives this…
Read More »The taking of the 17th Essex House of Representatives seat from the Democratic column into the GOP column in the November election is still causing a stir in the Merrimack Valley. The seat came “open” when current Rep Barry Finegold chose to run in the Democratic primary for the Second…
Read More »The news that Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola died suddenly today was stunning and saddening. I’ll leave it to others to report on the circumstances of his passing but perhaps a short summary of his political career might be appropriate. Motivated by last week’s news of DiPaola’s retirement, I wrote…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle braved tonight’s cold to take in Lowell’s annual City of Lights parade. As she explains in her blog post about the parade, her effort was amply rewarded. She, and everyone she ran into, seemed to have a great time.
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