The following link takes you to a pretty useful summary of President Obama’s remarks on Sunday during an interview with Brian Williams of NBC-TV news. The report is by Tom Kavanaugh of AOL. What the President says reverberates in our local and state election campaigns this fall. The agenda put…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, “Shards”. This is a Good News/Bad News thing. I saw a couple of movies this week, one in a theatre, one via Netflix Streaming. My expectations were knocked sideways with each film. First, the Bad News. I really…
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The Billerica Democratic Town Committee held its third annual family outing today at the Billerica Lodge of Elks. The well-attended event featured live music, a barbecue, and games for the kids. Many candidates were in attendance and were given the opportunity to speak including Secretary of State Bill Galvin and…
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Nancye Tuttle visited LeLacheur Park today and made the following observations on her website, Nancye’s World: It was hot and muggy, but worth it this afternoon when I enjoyed the Lowell Spinners with my daughter and grandkids at LaLacheur Park. I’m embarrassed to admit that it’s been awhile since I’ve…
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“Swedish actor Warner Oland poses as Charlie Chan in 1937” (web photo courtesy of time.com) No week goes by without a mention of Lowell’s Jack Kerouac in the major media outlets. Yesterday, the new Time magazine arrived in the mail. On page 65, there’s a review of scholar Yunte Huang’s book…
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More and more “For Sale” signs are popping up in my neighborhood. I expect that they’ll be there for a while. A real estate recovery seems elusive and the market continues to stagnate at best. The statistics suggest that the market could be eroding. As I wrote in this month’s…
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We’ve had a Netflix subscription for several years and use it mostly to compress a season of “Mad Men” or “Friday Night Lights” into a week rather than several months. But once in a while a movie will come to my attention and I’ll stick it in the queue. Eventually…
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web photo courtesy of washingtonpost.com I saw the aerial-view pictures of the “restore America’s values” rally in Washington, D.C. The organizers and attendees deserve credit for an impressive looking gathering. A lot of people. They put their shoes on and showed up to make a point and pump themselves up. The…
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Thanks to Kim Zunino for her informative tour of the School Street Cemetery this morning. Dedicated 16 years before Lowell was incorporated as a town, School Street, also known as “Lowell Cemetery No. 1” is the city’s oldest public burial place. Roaming around the markers, names from the pre-Lowell period…
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Regular reader Mary G visited the Middlesex County 4H Fair in Westford, shared some pictures, and had this to say: One thing that comes to mind when I attend the 4H Fair every year, is how impressed I am with the pride that these young contestants show for the animals…
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