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Halloween has always interested me – not just for the trick-or-treating or the costumes or parties, but for its beginnings as “All Hallows Eve.” While Halloween might be celebrated all around the world, it is steeped in Irish tradition, culture and in its both pagan and Christian heritage. Long before Christianity arrived in Ireland, Halloween…
Read More »Esquire political columnist Charlie Pierce (whose Politics blog is well-worth reading this time of year) reminds us that the 2006 Mother’s Day flood in Lowell gave then Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney an opportunity to exercise his leadership skills in the time of natural disaster. The results weren’t pretty.
Read More »This is a shout out to City Manager Bernie Lynch, Assistant City Manager Adam Baacke, the Police Department, and the rest of the City Hall team who helped synchronize the traffic signals between the Thorndike-Dutton streets blend up through the intersections of Dutton-Broadway, Dutton-Market, and Dutton-Merrimack. As a regular on that…
Read More »Not much to report thus far today (Monday, October 29, 2012). The rain has fallen as a heavy mist/light rain since last evening. The wind which was a steady breeze yesterday and this morning is now a constant low growl outside the window. Almost all schools were cancelled today. The…
Read More »A robocall from Asst Supt Jay Lang at 540 pm announced no school in Lowell tomorrow, October 29, due to approaching storm.
Read More »The web gives us disturbance, uproar, commotion, and confusion for synonyms of “turmoil”—words that fit both the weather forecast and political forecast. A storm is not really an outside force since we are in nature, but there’s a sense that something is coming to get us, to make trouble on…
Read More »After losing power for five days after last Halloween’s snowstorm, I vowed to get a generator before the next major weather event. I procrastinated a bit but last week, well before any talk of Hurricane Sandy, is began serious shopping. Here’s a photo I took at Lowe’s on Chelmsford St…
Read More »The Greater Lowell Area Democrats held their Annual Fall Brunch this morning at Lenzi’s in Dracut. Many Democratic candidates were in attendance. The main speaker was Congresswoman Niki Tsongas but the person who was given the most attention was Bruce Mann, the husband of Elizabeth Warren. Mann made a compelling…
Read More »Last evening the Angkor Dance Troupe celebrated its 25th anniversary with the world premiere of Apsara Dancing Stones, an interpretive dance that combined traditional Khmer dance with contemporary elements. The 900 plus people who filled the Lowell Memorial Auditorium saw a fantastic show.
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has announced it will no longer endorse political candidates, except in some rare undefined instances. What a travesty! Let’s face it. A newspaper or television station’s endorsement of a candidate probably has little impact…
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