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Those of us in the pews are used to the annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. My CCHD envelope for November 21st notes: “Your gift will help groups of low-income Americans address the causes of poverty in their communities. Your generosity will secure…
Read More »“Not in our backyard” – With the New Hampshire State Turnpike Bureau about hold a series of public hearings about options for placing “tolls” on the Everett Turnpike – with one scheduled Nov. 17 in Nashua – the Nashua Board of Alderman took a stand last night. According to an article…
Read More »Tony Sampas visits Hadley Field at the corner of Baldwin and Middlesex Streets to photograph the Middlesex Village World War Two monument.
Read More »I’m pleased that City Councilor Patrick Murphy’s motion to extend the vote in municipal elections passed last night. Hopefully our legislators will guide the resulting bill through the home rule process on Beacon Hill until it becomes law. To let it languish there would just fuel the same type of…
Read More »Tonight I joined forty others at the Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union headquarters at 1 Tremont Place for the screening of the Academy Award winning documentary, “Maya Lin: A strong clear vision” by the Lowell Film Collaborative in cooperation with the Arts League of Lowell in honor of Veterans Day. Suzz…
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (2) . The land to the east of my house steps down to the western bank of the Concord and until recent times was called Wamesit Hill, though the only Native American in sight now is the one positioned at the center of the state emblem…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. She got on the phone with facilities people to get the heating system working, met with two guidance counselors about arrangements for Spirit Day, caught up with another administrator about making sure teachers had turned…
Read More »Categorize this one under the heading “there always seems to be a Lowell connection”… Recently Fallon Community Health has been running a TV Advertisement featuring its CEO, Pat Hughes. When I first saw the Ad I wondered if this Pat Hughes was the same one I remembered as a kid…
Read More »MICHALOPOULOS SQUARE, Corner of Suffolk and Market Streets: “Private Athanasios C. Michalopoulos Born 1895 Killed in Action France July 1918 He Gave His Life To Preserve Liberty and Freedom” Two of our contributors, Tony Sampas and Eileen Loucraft unintentionally but serendipitously collaborate today to help us remember Private Athanasios C.…
Read More »For the next few days I will publish sections of an essay about Lowell. The essay in a slightly different form first appeared in “The Offering,” the literary magazine of UMass Lowell, in 2007.—PM . Cut from American Cloth In the middle of the nineteenth century, workers in the red-brick…
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