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At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Lowell City Council moved efficiently through a short agenda, completing the meeting in just 90 minutes. One thing that contributed to the meeting’s brevity was the presence of just five motion responses on the agenda. With 15 new motions passed the same night, simple math…
Read More »When Nothing Can Help By Malcolm Sharps One of the rare curiosities of Central European travel is to make the crossing from Hungary to Slovakia underground by way of the Dobsina-Aggtelek cave system, which in all is 21km in length. On my first visit to Aggtelek, I met with no such lucky opportunity;…
Read More »Lowell Hosts- (PIP #17) By Louise Peloquin Lowell is known for its success in managing large crowds. To provide one example, the Lowell Folk Festival, started in 1990 after two years of hosting the National Folk Festival, is the longest-running free folk festival in the United States. Every July, thousands…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Do we really need to arm the Statue of Liberty? It’s no secret that there is an immigration crisis in this country. Since Biden became President, more than three million migrants have crossed the border, and an estimated…
Read More »The Lowell City Council met on Tuesday night with a potentially long agenda being handled in an expeditious 2.5 hours. Because of last week’s ruling by the City Solicitor that all unanswered motions from the last Council session died at the end of that session, this week’s agenda contained a…
Read More »Another in a series of excerpts from the 1926 Lowell City Directory. This post contains information on parochial schools in Lowell: Greek Parochial School – Broadway, corner of Worthen Immaculate Conception School – 2 High Street – Grey Nuns Keith Academy – Thorndike Street Notre Dame Academy – 311 Adams…
Read More »Another in a series of excerpts from the 1926 Lowell City Directory. This post contains information on the Lowell Public Schools: School Committee Mayor John J. Donovan, chair Paul L. Harris, M.D. John J. Preston Edward J. Rogers Alice F.D. Pearson James H. Riley Arthur Giroux School Committee meets the…
Read More »“The “golden belt” called a reputation (PIP #16) By Louise Peloquin Would journalists today report on elected officials as they did 106 years ago? ********* L’Etoile March 18, 1918 Lewiston, ME. Governed by Ours This city of 30,000 souls has a majority of Franco-Americans at its municipal council. – This…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Governor Maura Healey’s report January 17th on the state of the Commonwealth was nearly an hour of celebration: what her new administration has accomplished, what challenges remain, how she intends to address each and every one of…
Read More »Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting featured City Manager Tom Golden’s “State of the City” address. There’s nothing in the City Charter or the Council Rules that requires such a speech, but back in the 1990s City Managers began delivering them and that has continued. At first, the State of the…
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