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The Impossible Dream: The 1967 Red Sox The end of another disappointing Red Sox season on Sunday was tempered by a Bob Ryan column in the Sunday Boston Globe about the importance of October 1st in the Red Sox universe. (“It was pivotal day in year that changed it…
Read More »The entry below is b eing cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin, translated from a 2018 French publication, is a delicately developing mysterious story about people who are a little offbeat but emerge as complex and interesting characters. The principal character, Violette Toussaint,…
Read More »At Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting, councilors received a comprehensive presentation from a representative of Commonwealth Care Alliance, a 20-year-old Boston-based nonprofit corporation that has contracted with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to operate the family emergency shelter program housed in the former UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in downtown…
Read More »From the Saint Laurence to the Merrimack and back By Louise Peloquin For several weeks, Dick Howe has been posting photos of Lowell monuments testifying to the city’s rich and varied past. Although the following monument is located 384 miles to the north, it commemorates the French-Canadian history which links…
Read More »Roger Baribeault Square – Fisher Street and Cumberland Road – Born in Lowell in 1923, Roger Baribeault served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was awarded a bronze star for heroism. His was a lifelong parishioner of St. Louis de France Church in Centralville and member of…
Read More »Alfred J. Baraby Jr. Square – Andover Street and Wilder Road – Alfred J. Baraby Jr. was born in Nashua in 1919. He eventually moved to Lowell and was a longtime resident of Belvidere. He served in the United States Army during World War II. After the war, he worked…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Jack Rennie, Chairman and CEO of Pacer Systems, Inc, was a genial and successful businessman in Massachusetts who found his purpose in life not infinitely expanding his corporate interests but in educating the workforce necessary to grow…
Read More »There was no Lowell City Council meeting this past week, so I’ll pick up where I left off in my last newsletter and share some more thoughts on elections and mail-in voting. In the aftermath of the September 3, 2024, primary election, people asked me, “Were you surprised by the…
Read More »Living Madly: Harvest Home By Emilie-Noelle Provost *This essay is dedicated to my sister Morgan who loves fairs so much she got married on the Ferris wheel at the Franklin Country Fair in Greenfield. **** When I was very young, my family used to go to the Marshfield Fair every…
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