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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. A week into Operation Epic Fury, the administration’s stated objectives have shifted by the hour and by the speaker: eliminate the nuclear program, roll back ballistic missiles, defang the proxies, respond to Israeli pressure, achieve regime change.…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met on Tuesday night (March 3, 2026). The meeting was dominated by a discussion of a joint motion by Councilors Corey Robinson and Rita Mercier requesting the city manager to “provide the city council with a detailed report on a pathway to secure independent legal counsel…
Read More »Erosion of Democracy’s Norms is Dreadful to Behold Rev. Steve Edington This Op-Ed was originally published in the Union Leader on March 6, 2026. Several years ago, I watched a production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” by a community theater troupe in Belfast, Maine. The play portrays the events in…
Read More »The Pollard Memorial Library Foundation recently announced that submissions are now open for the 2026 Elinor Lipman Award for Writing. Born and raised in Lowell, Lipman is a prolific and much-loved author who graciously returns to the city each year for this contest’s awards ceremony. More information about the rules…
Read More »Gulf War Notebook (1991) By Paul Marion In early 1991, I was a freelance writer and editor, often working at home, which was the case during the early days of the Gulf War in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. I was drawn in to the media coverage.…
Read More »Barbers and Barbershops By Leo Racicot One of my favorite trips with Papa was when he’d drive the old Plymouth up to Cupples Square to Dick the Barber’s, to have my hair cut. Dick would give dad a quick clean-up then Papa would lift me up into the same barber’s…
Read More »Book Review: Running Deep: Bravery, Survival, and the True Story of the Deadliest Submarine in World War II by Tom Clavin. This book is about the USS Tang, a US World War II submarine operating in the Pacific. Tang sank more ships than any other US submarine during the war.…
Read More »Speeches, songs, poems, prayers, concerts, dances, lights, pushes, shoves and much more! – (PIP #99) – Louise Peloquin Celebrations have changed but the message is still Happy Birthday Lowell! __________ L’Etoile – Front page March 2, 1926 LOWELL CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL IN SPLENDID STYLE __________ WITH WIDESPREAD AND INDESCRIBABLE…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is a beautifully written novel in epistolary style, presented as a series of fictional letters, mostly penned by one Sybil Van Antwerp over eighty+ years. Even as a child, she wrote letters, finding it easier…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Call me a masochist. I watched all of Trump’s State-of-the-Union speech. The President painted a picture of the nation as he wanted to see it. It was a swirling mix of fantasy, twisted rhetoric and outright lies. We’ve…
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