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For some unknown reason our copy of the Sun Sunday “Focus – Opinion & Commentary” continues to hit the driveway on Fridays in a early arrival. So here’s a heads-up! The Lowell Sun joins the GOP with an editorial “swift-boating” of U. N. Ambassador Susan Rice this coming Sunday. She…
Read More »Last evening I joined more than 30 others at the LRTA Maintenance Facility conference room at 100 Hale Street to hear the latest thinking from the city’s Planning Department and the various urban planners (Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge) and EPA officials who have been working on a master plan for…
Read More »“Cake and Tea” by Richard Marion, (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »If you’ve ever driven through Worcester while heading west on Rte 290, you may have noticed the two white towers of the city’s train station just to the right of the highway. Union Station was constructed in 1911 and abandoned in 1975. In 2000, however, the city poured $32 million…
Read More »Thanks to Judy Davidson of the East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group for sending along the above 2012 Presidential campaign relic photograph which she captured during a downtown walk. (By the way, reader photographs are always welcome so please send them along). Then early this morning during a neighborhood walk, I noticed…
Read More »New England Patriots wide receiver Brandon Lloyd visited Lowell High School to speak with students about the importance of financial planning. His visit was sponsored by National Financial Educators Council, Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union and Yahoo, which sent a camera crew to film his visit (it should be on the…
Read More »Paul posted this video from the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council on Facebook earlier today. I hadn’t seen the video, which was uploaded to YouTube by the Council back in September: [youtube]NURt5MO2s0c[/youtube]
Read More »Tony Sampas sent along this image, the accompanying story and the following background information: This rendering of General Butler was originally located in Memorial Hall (now the Reference Hall of the Pollard Memorial Library). Its present location is unknown as it may have been destroyed or lost following the disastrous…
Read More »From history.com: Caroline Kennedy (1957-), the eldest child of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1929-1994), is a lawyer and author. At age 3 she moved into the White House with her parents and younger brother John Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999). Following her father’s 1963 assassination, she and…
Read More »Here’s Dr. Patrick Mogan expounding on his vision of Lowell as an “educative city” in a 1995 video: [youtube]CRztwDJAhPs[/youtube]
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