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Last November, with the help of Eileen Loucraft (who also took the above photograph), I posted some death notices of Lowell residents who died in World War One. Here’s the beginning of my November 2, 2010 post: Another Lowell man has given up the greatest treasure he possessed for the…
Read More »The news is that Governor Patrick has replaced the Commonwealth’s entire parole board, the parole office’s executive director and has suspended a number of employees of the parole office, all in response to the December 26, 2010 murder of a Woburn police officer during a robbery by a career criminal…
Read More »Tony Sampas uses companion pictures of Lowell’s earliest Roman Catholic Church to illustrate this week’s snowfall.
Read More »The first regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats for the New Year will be held this Saturday January 15, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: discussion of the upcoming Democratic Convention caucuses (February 5th- 19th); the 5th District…
Read More »The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
Read More »George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
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