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Lowell voters ousted two incumbent city councilors in yesterday’s election. In District 4, Sean McDonough defeated incumbent Wayne Jenness, and in District 7, Sidney Liang defeated incumbent Paul Ratha Yem. With incumbent Corey Belanger having lost in the preliminary election in District 3, there will be three new city councilors…
Read More »Down…in history. (PIP #85) By Louise Peloquin Another Lowell landmark is turned into rubble. Yet, within the heap of red brick, traces of the countless Franco-Americans ushered into eternity at 201 Pawtucket Street seem to rise from the dusty ruins. The most famous of these Francos was Jack Kerouac. Archambault…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life” by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a large but rich memoir of an extraordinary career in journalism. Perhaps you remember Kristof’s coverage of the slaughter in Darfur, the bloody civil war and mass…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück by Lynne Olsen is an extraordinary telling of a little-told Nazi horror story, barely hinted at by the subtitle, “How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp.” This goes beyond any book…
Read More »The Lowell city election is this Tuesday with the polls open from 7 am until 8 pm. The city’s Election and Census Office website has a “find your polling place” app along with other election-related information. I don’t have any predictions about the outcome, but I’m especially interested in two…
Read More »College and University Days By Leo Racicot I loved high school French and Latin so much, I decided they would be my major and minor in college. I applied to three area colleges with those disciplines: Lowell State Teachers College here in the city, Saint Anselm’s in Manchester, New Hampshire…
Read More »This is the third of our Lowell Stories series, which we hope to make a regular feature on this website. If you have a story to share, get in touch and we’ll help preserve it in print. We’ll even write it for you if that would help. Richard Howe Lowell…
Read More »This story originally appeared on this site on October 18, 2022. Halloween in the Highlands By Louise Peloquin October was an exciting month in the 60’s. Jack o’lanterns, corn stalks and old sheet ghosts set the scene. Prepping was taken very seriously in the run-up to the big day. For…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Imagine this happening to you. You’re a widow “of a certain age.” After years of being single again, you meet a compatible widower and find love. You date for a long time and seem perfect for each other.…
Read More »On Thursday night, October 23, 2025, I attended Lowell Public School Superintendent Liam Skinner’s State of the Schools address at the just-renovated Lowell High Little Theatre. The evening began with a reception in the school lobby that featured musical, dance, and poetry performances by students. Then LHS student ambassadors led…
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