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We’re deep in the keep of winter now. This one feels like an old-fashioned winter. New England memory adds snow to past seasons. Lean winters don’t stick in the mind. There’s more talk of Florida lately now that we are past the holidays and snowbirds are jetting south for their weeks…
Read More »Cliff at Right Side has a detailed and helpful report on the meeting between Sen. Brown’s staff and a host of public officials and community folks in Pawtucketville. Read the notes here and Cliff’s take on what’s “right” and fair for the citizens concerned about proposed changes to the dam.
Read More »Brian Williams in 2006 reported on the back story of Robert Frost’s poem written for President Kennedy. See the clip of Frost reading and find out what happened. This is our Robert Frost of the Merrimack Valley, who grew up in Lawrence and graduated from Lawrence High School. Here’s the…
Read More »Several hundred people gathered yesterday at the Wyndham Hotel in Andover, Mass., for the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast sponsored by the Merrimack Valley Branch of the NAACP. Branch President Rev. Roger A. Sawtelle of Lowell said one of the things he enjoys about the yearly gathering is that…
Read More »Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 20, at 2 p.m, at the Athenian Corner restaurant on Market Street in Lowell. That’s when hundreds of literary fans will meet at the book launch party for Steve O’Connor’s upcoming novel, “The Spy in the City of Books, ” which is being published by Sons of Liberty…
Read More »Lowell resident and MassINC Executive Vice President John Schneider has been pushing the Gateway Cities initiative. Read the message that he and his colleague Ben Forman recently released. For details on MassINC’s Gateway Cities Education Summit in Worcestor on Feb. 4, visit www.massinc.org The Gateway Cities Globe moment This past Thanksgiving day, The Boston Globe began a…
Read More »From Bob Forrant: More than 60 people, including three Lawrence city councilors and two representatives from US Rep. Niki Tsongas’s office, yesterday gathered in Lawrence to start planning in earnest the 2012 Bread & Roses Strike Centennial Project. For more information, contact robert_forrant@uml.edu Read the Eagle-Tribune’s report on the January 15…
Read More »I joined the 500 million member club called Facebook after delaying for a long time because it looked to me like another form of media to keep up with. When I was a kid, my family was late getting a color TV, so maybe there’s a pattern. However, my first…
Read More »For perspective, here’s an essay by Columbia University physics scholar Brian Greene about what we know and don’t know about our largest neighborhood, the universe. Read his commentary here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Award-winning author Jane Brox, who grew up and lived in Dracut until recently, will be among the featured faculty at the prestigious annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, August 10 to 20, 2011. For details, visit www.middlebury.edu/blwc Her faculty colleagues will include Chang-rae Lee, Philip Levine, and…
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