The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, her high spirits and steely dedication are a year-round demeanor. The former co-captain of Harvard University’s women’s basketball team and a starter on a professional team in Austria applies the competitive drive and…
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OPENING DAY By Terry Downes Gazing on emerald to players they shout; All then are favorites, none that day a lout; New bunting billows its red, white and blue Fans for the home team are rooting anew. Run up the pole the flag to salute From widest eyed child to…
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John Webb of Boston and Dracut (1611-1668): A Colonial Snapshot By Paul Marion In his History of Dracut (1922), Silas Roger Coburn describes John Evered, also known by the surname Webb, as “the first white man to become a resident on the soil of Dracut, but not, as we have…
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The Great Book Burn-a-Thon By David Daniel “Welcome to Radio KTRD’s third annual Spring Book Burn-a-Thon! Bob Toole here, along with co-host Carly Kindler. We’re broadcasting all day to celebrate a great cultural tradition in our metro area. We know you’re as excited as us, so let’s get to the…
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Lowell City Council in 1924 – (PIP #63) – Louise Peloquin Dick Howe’s weekly “Lowell Politics” post keeps us abreast of City Council meetings and local events. Let’s peek into century-old City Council meetings. More in the coming weeks. **** L’Etoile – December 23, 1924 FAVORABLE TO A…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi is the remarkable memoir of an Albanian girl, told in the first person starting when she was just seven years old. Ypi sees the world and her homeland…
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On Tuesday night the Lowell City Council voted to amend the Land Disposition Agreement the city executed in 2020 with Lupoli Companies LLC for several parcels in the Hamilton Canal District. The vote was 8 to 2 with YES votes from Councilors Corey Belanger, Sokhary Chau, Wayne Jenness, Rita Mercier,…
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Sports fans had plenty to choose from this past weekend with the Red Sox wrapping up spring training, the Celtics on the march to another title, and the Bruins still competing, but my focus was on the NCAA Basketball tournament, also known as March Madness. There’s no single team I’m…
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On Friday, March 21, 2025, I traveled to UMass Lowell’s South Campus to attend the Khmer Literary Arts Day. The event featured talks and readings by four Khmer authors and then workshops in which participants spent two hours in breakout groups for fiction, poetry, children’s literature, and memoir, working on…
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Tom Sexton at Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Mass. (photos by Kevin Harkins) Farewell to Our Friend Tom Sexton, American Poet (1940-2025) We learned from his wife Sharyn Sexton that our friend and fellow contributor to this blog Tom Sexton passed away at home in Alaska on March 12…
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