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The recent report issued by the Donahue Institute at UMass Boston, reinforces the view that the defense industry is a critical element of the Merrimack Vally and Commonwealth of Massachusetts economy. Raytheon is a heavy duty employer in the state – with a workforce over over 13,000 – with many…
Read More »Sunday, holiday elves treated Billerica residents to a visit from Santa and a wonderful tree lighting…below heidi1361 captures some of these special moment for us.
Read More »“From the low-lit fastnesses of my study, I looked solemnly at the newspaper headlines. On my desk, its brown pigeon-holes stuffed with ledger, manuscripts, sheet, inkwell, sentimental token . . . . on this desk of mine I lay the screaming visage of a Hearst tabloid—it said: JAPAN DECLARES WAR…
Read More »Read Shaughnessy’s giddy account of the Monday night game from boston.com. web photo courtesy of boston.com and Jim Davis, Globe
Read More »I spent $40 this morning to fill up with regular gas at about $3 per gallon at the XtraMart on Gorham Street, near the courthouse. Humorist Lewis Black might say, What the F#&*%! Did I miss a new oil embargo, or did China buy up all the crude last week for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. People who knew Jim DiPaola say he was a nice guy, very gregarious. It’s hard to succeed in politics if you’re not. Others say he cared about other people, was loyal to his employees and committed to providing…
Read More »Tony Sampas gives us a couple of shots of the fence cordoning off the construction site of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center on UMass Lowell North Campus.
Read More »I just returned from the Lowell Memorial Auditorium where I saw comedian Lewis Black perform. My face still hurts from laughing so hard. I’d seen a prior Black performance on DVD and have caught him many times on The Daily Show, but this was my first in-person experience. He did…
Read More »Visitors to the Boott Cotton Mills Museum at the Lowell National Historical Park become fully acquainted with the struggle by workers a century ago to win the rights and protections that culminated in the thriving and dominant middle class of the post World War Two era. Beginning in 1980, however,…
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