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In response to my request earlier today for a correspondent to report on tonight’s meeting on the future of the Rourke Bridge and vicinity, someone kindly took up my offer and sent the following: The subject of tonight’s meeting was the many intersections in the area, what the current status…
Read More »Tonight is the informational meeting on the Rourke Bridge, Wood Street, Westford Street and Drum Hill Road Corridor Study and Feasibility Analysis. This public meeting – i.e., open to everyone – goes from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Lowell General Hospital’s Clark Auditorium, 295 Varnum Avenue, Lowell, MA. Due…
Read More »Ivy, our Yellow Lab, turns 5 years old today. The photo above is from this morning. Despite the temperature of only 1 degree, she still wanted to go for a walk but the human side of that equation thought better of it.
Read More »2nd Annual Chili Contest! SATURDAY, JANUARY 26. 12 – 4 PM (Snow: Sunday, January 27, 12 – 4) Vote for your favorite chili and let your tastebuds be heard! $10.00 – Tickets at the Brush Gallery Proceeds to support our Special Perspectives Art Program for developmentally delay adults. Click here to learn…
Read More »Father Matt Malone, S. J. The editor-in-chief of the highly-regarded Jesuit magazine “America” – Matt Malone, S. J. – has deep ties to Lowell, Massachusetts. For a few years he was an aide to Congressman Marty Meehan. His Lowell experience made a lasting imprression as we can see by the…
Read More »In 1843, the poet, newspaper editor, and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) published a collection of essays titled The Stranger in Lowell. For a time, he published a newspaper called The Middlesex Standard in Lowell. He was born in Haverhill and lived in both Amesbury and Haverhill. Following is an…
Read More »For the second straight week the Lowell City Council zipped through its meeting tonight, sticking to the agenda and not wandering too far afield on any particular issue (although the buzz on Facebook speculates that as the city election draws closer, the meetings will get lengthier). Old favorites made their…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-3MA) on election night / November 6, 1012 (photo from The Hellenic News of America) The current Winter 2013 edition of Commonweath Magazine features Third District Congresswoman Niki Tsongas in their “Washington Notebook.” Writer Shaw Zeller notes that Tsongas is “neither a caretaker nor a token… cutting a…
Read More »Years from now historians will cite President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address as the launch point of a new era of progressive action and values in America. From climate change to gun control to education to gay rights, women’s rights and voting rights, to the “inherent value” of social programs such…
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