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St Patrick’s Nativity
Tony Sampas photographs the Nativity diorama at St Patrick’s Church in Lowell
Read More »Globe features Lowell’s Micky O’Keefe
A story in today’s Globe traces Lowell Police sergeant Micky O’Keefe’s newest career as an actor, after his starring role in the Mickey Ward biopic “The Fighter” which has created quite a buzz both here in Lowell and throughout the country. Here’s the full story from the Globe.
Read More »Congressional Redistricting
Yesterday’s news that the Commonwealth will lose a Congressional seat as a result of the 2010 census adds another element of drama to the 2012 state election. Not only will the presidency and the US Senate seat held by Scott Brown be on the ballot, but now we have the…
Read More »Is UMass Lowell’s Meehan in the Suffolk Hunt?
The Boston Herald’s Jessica Van Slack is reporting today that the Suffolk University Board of Trustees has a 13-member committee ready to go in search of a new President. Longtime President David Sargent has retired. It’s not a surprise that Van Slack “stirs the pot” – reporting that four seach committee members…
Read More »Globe reports on Mass. losing US House seat
December 22, 2010
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PaulM
Posted in Lowell, Politics, Election 2010, Greater Lowell, History
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Read the boston.com article here and see US Rep. Niki Tsongas’s comments.
Read More »“Pure Lowell” by Steve O’Connor
Steve O’Connor, author of “Smokestack Lightning”, learned much about life while working as a clerk at the Davis Square Drug Store back in the 1970s: When my son approached the age at which he began to become convinced that he needed his own car, I put some vexing questions to…
Read More »“The Christmas Fruitcake: An Ageless Tradition” by Henri Marchand
Note from Henri Marchand: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun and showing up on this blog last year. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more to all who either love…
Read More »Dec. 31 Deadline for Appleton Mills Artists Residences
This reminder was sent by Jim Dyment of VYU arts magazine and the Whistler House Museum of Art: “Another neighborhood comes back to life as the Appleton Mills building on Jackson Street nears completion. It’s been under construction for months and this project is one more step in the process…
Read More »Hot Last Minute Gift Idea
The word downtown is that Steve O’Connor’s collection of short stories, “Smokestack Lightning,” is one of the hot local gift items for last minute shoppers. It’s a little big to go in a stocking, but fits nicely under the tree. Available at Barnes and Noble, Brew’d, Dharma Buns, Welle’s Emporium,…
Read More »Fingerprinting Carbon Dioxide
For the past two centuries, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been rising from 280ppm to over 390ppm in 2010. This is an incontrovertible fact. What has been called into question in recent years is the source of this carbon dioxide; it has been asserted by some…
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