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I’m pretty sure this is the same Will Eno who is the son of Atty. Arthur L. and Anne Eno of Westford. He set up shop in NYC as a writer years ago and has had success writing plays. For a while, he published a literary magazine, which I was fortunate enough…
Read More »Another installment in our month-long effort to remember Lowell soldiers who died in the First World War by republishing their obituaries: More About Death of Major Rivet Further information concerning the death of Maj. Douglas Rivet, son of Mrs. Franics P. Rivet of 271 Beacon street, is contained in the…
Read More »This past Tuesday Niki Tsongas won reelection, defeating Republican challenger Jon Golnik, 54% to 42%. Tsongas won 22 of the 29 towns in the Fifth Congressional District and the seven won by Golnik were by relatively small margins (Bolton by 4, Chelmsford by 237, Dracut by 334, Dunstable by 137,…
Read More »From the Boston Globe: Chief Justice-designee Roderick I. Ireland is shown in 2009 photo sitting next to two of his current colleagues on the Supreme Judicial Court, Justices Margot Botsford and Robert J. Cordy. Both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are reporting that Governor Deval Patrick has nominated…
Read More »Tony Sampas observes the change of seasons at Boarding House Park
Read More »The seventh annual Lowell High School Distinguished Alumni Award Reception was held last night in the school’s Cyrus W. Irish Auditorium. The honorees were Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921), George Simonian (1945), Arnold Trebach (1946), Thomas Hayes (1978) and Patrick Tighe (1984). A theme that ran throughout the remarks of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Nationally, angry voters pulled the lever for change, but here in Massachusetts a majority cast their ballots for optimism. Winners and losers weren’t defined just by the metrics however. Scott Brown, while not on the ballot, lost some…
Read More »Read what Bill Moyers said about the workings of the contemporary plutocracy in the USofA. The text of his speech at BU in late October was posted on truth-out.org.
Read More »Read columnist E. J. Dionne’s take on the mid-term elections. He warns Dems/Progressives/Liberals/Sensible People about letting themselves be defined by the other side.
Read More »Over at HuffingtonPost.com – Sam Stein tells us that there is already a Tea Party activists’ hit list of Republican Senators that have a bit of a leaning towards a little bipartisanism. No surprise is the listing of Olympia Snowe of Maine and Orinn Hatch of Utah. One name on…
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