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City Council candidate forum – Sept 21, 2011

September 21, 2011 by DickH Posted in City Council Leave a Comment

The Lowell Citywide Neighborhood Council presented its second City Council Candidate Forum tonight at the Dom Polski Club in Centralville. Sixteen of the candidates participated (Mayor Jim Milinazzo was at the Lowell School Committee meeting). Each gave a 2 minute opening, answered one or more questions posed by the debate…

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”

September 21, 2011 by Marie Posted in Culture, History Leave a Comment

On this day in history – September 21, 1897 – as noted by NEWSEUM: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since…