Results of today’s Tewksbury Town elections: (* winner) Number Voting: 4433 Percentage voting: 21.4% Selectman: *Gay (I): 2600 * Wilson (I): 2195 Marcin: 1155 Miano: 1572 Planning Board: *Reed (I): 2548 Sullivan: 1455 Board of Health: Fernald (I): 1993 * Sheehan (I): 2243 *Brother: 2368 Shawsheen School Committee: Downing (I): 1536 * Kelley: 2345 Question 1: DEFEATED Yes: 1465 * No: 2914 Notes…
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The towns of Tewksbury and Billerica held their municipal elections today. Here are some of the results from Tewksbury Patch: In Tewksbury, incumbent selectmen David Gay (2600 votes) and Scott Wilson (2195) were reelected, defeating challengers Ken Miano (1572) and Robert Marcin (1155). On the Board of Health, incumbent Edward…
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Abraham Lincoln Memorial On this day April 14 in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln while he was attending a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered…
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Here’s another piece of lyrical writing that former Mayor John Robert Smith of Meridian, Mississippi, quoted at the Creative Placemaking Summit on Wednesday. This sentiment pre-dates the Bread & Roses slogan of Lawrence by some centuries, but makes the same case about the need to feed soul and body. .…
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On the Building of Springfield Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses’ home, That Oxford rules the heart of London still, That Florence gave the Renaissance to Rome. Record it for the grandson of your son — A city is not builded in a…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It never made sense to me, but now it does. I never thought this was the time for the President to open temporarily the spigot of the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve, the world’s largest supply of emergency crude…
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Last Wednesday at the Appleton Mills in Lowell Mass Innovation Nights, ran an “event designed to leverage the local social media community. Every month the event showcases a wide range of new and innovative products from local companies. Mass Innovation Nights is marking its third anniversary and the first event…
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Poet Kate Hanson Foster of Groton learned today that her book “Mid Drift” from Loom Press was selected as one of the best collections of poetry published in Massachusetts in 2011. Mass Book Awards are for books by Massachusetts authors or about Massachusetts. The book is on the “Must-Reads” list…
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Another of a series of articles I’m writing about Lowell in the years and days leading up to the start of the American Civil War is now online on Howl in Lowell. This article examines the city’s small but influential African-American community and the role Lowell played in the Underground…
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