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Jim Peters sent along the following essay about the challenges that face a city manager in Lowell: I was in Chelmsford most of this week for some period of time and one thing I noticed was their trash pickup. They do not have to cram into their one can: trash…
Read More »Poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan, courtesy of tangledupinlheurebleue.blogspot] Show flier for Rolling Thunder Revue at ULowell (1975) [Web photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com] At Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan] At Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco American School (1975)…
Read More »David Wade of Boston’s WBZ-TV filed a report on what some are calling “a crisis in the making.” It’s all about fuel assistance. As the temperature falls and winter comes on, people face the likelihood of a reduced amount of money available for fuel assistance compared to this past year. …
Read More »Dorchester-native Mark Wahlberg is featured this Sunday night on “60 Minutes.” The segment runs just days before the Massachusetts premier of his movie “The Fighter” based on Lowell’s own Irish Micky Ward. While a Globe “Celebrity News” item puts the focus on his Dorchester roots, word has it that Lowell plays…
Read More »Tony Sampas found an open gate and some stairs leading downward at the Moody Street Bridge, now known as the University Avenue Bridge, and snapped these photos:
Read More »He wasn’t much of a president, but George W Bush is a funny guy…Bush appeared on Jay Leno last night to push his new book, Decision Points. Below he tells why he decided to stop drinking after a dinner party at his mother and father’s house.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards I am in the Barnes and Noble café in Nashua, NH. As usual. Trying to work. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes less so. Most times, I can achieve a level of concentration here I can’t reach in a…
Read More »Read this NYT rave review of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ new Art of the Americas Wing. Go there. Quickly now.
Read More »So what’s really motivating the G.O.P. attack on the Fed? Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,”…
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