The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tom Brady has a head start on a wonderful life. He has the golden touch. But why couldn’t he also give a head start to the program by that name? Monday’s Boston Herald had an interesting juxtaposition, a…
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September 30 is the deadline to apply for green energy grants and loans to retrofit buildings in the downtown historic district. This money is available thanks to a $5 million “stimulus fund” (Recovery Act) federal grant announced by US Rep. Tsongas, Sen. Kerry, and City leaders a few months ago. Read about the program and application…
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Photo-blogger Tony Sampas captured this view of the Fairburn Building at 10 Kearney Square in Lowell. I’ve passed by this building thousands of times (and have been inside hundreds of times – my dad’s law office was on the fourth floor for twenty years) and never before noticed this architectural…
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The NYTimes today has a report on the progress being made in Cambodia with United Nations-linked trials of Khmer Rouge leaders accused of atrocities related to the genocide in that country from 1975 to 1979. Read the article here, and get the NYT if you value the international reporting.
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I like baseball. I really like baseball and have liked it as far back as I can recall. One of my great memories is of my father taking me to a Red Sox-Minnesota Twins afternoon doubleheader at Fenway when I was 11 years old. It was the mid-60s, and the…
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Some random thoughts on the election that I scribbled down during the past 24 hours: I never would have guessed that the iconic image from the 2010 primary election would be a pair of men’s dress shoes. Chris Doherty used the shoes with the hole in them to good effect,…
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The Board of Directors of Community Teamwork, Inc. (CTI) has just announced the honorees for their 17th Annual Evening With Local Heroes to be feted on Wednesday October 27, 2010 at 6pm at Lenzi’s in Dracut. The group includes nine individuals and organizations from the Greater Lowell area. President’s Award…
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Over on the The Boston Phoenix website’s – “Talking Politics” – David Bernstein tells us what he saw in the results of the Massachusetts Primary. From Guy being bumped to “Jon Golnik, taking on the woman he couldn’t be bothered to vote against three years ago” (i.e. Niki Tsongas), Bernstein’s…
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Today – Globe staffers give a quick sketch of the results of yesterday’s legislative races where incumbents were challenged and and incumbents chose not to run for reelection. The linkages to former and current elected officials tell the political story whether it’s Flynn, Menino, Hart, Walsh, Flaherty or names closer…
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Eileen Donoghue prevailed in yesterday’s Democratic primary for the 1st Middlesex State Senate District. The last time there was a contested primary for that seat was in 1996 when Steve Panagiotakos defeated Matt Donahue. Here’s a town-by-town comparison of the two elections: Dunstable Eileen Donoghue – 139 — Chris Doherty…
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