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At the top of the stairs leading to the third floor rotunda of the Massachusetts State House in Boston is a colorful mural, ten feet high and fifteen feet wide, that depicts the soldiers of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment fighting a well-armed mob of angry civilians in Baltimore,…
Read More »This is the third installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. To help commemorate this anniversary in Lowell, each week during 2017 and 2018, I hope to post the daily headlines that appeared…
Read More »With Easter, Patriot’s Day, school vacation and no council meeting, it’s a slow time politically, so here are some updates on a few projects: South Common & Thorndike Street Improvements Underway Earlier this week, a platoon of DPW workers and contractors arrived at the South Common and started digging. The…
Read More »On April 14, 1865 – Good Friday – Abraham Lincoln went to Ford’s Theatre. As he watched the play from his presidential box above the stage, John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of the head. Lincoln was carried out of the theatre and across the street to William…
Read More »When he visited Lowell earlier this month, Chief Justice Ralph Gants of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said one of his major concerns is how the state’s criminal justice system assesses and collects fees and fines on defendants. These mandated payments are embedded throughout. Upon failure to pay, a judge…
Read More »Update on last week’s flooding in Pawtucketville and Centralville. Manager Murphy says the city was very proactive in monitoring the flood levels and the related portions of the city’s action plan. Fortunately, the water did not rise to a destructive level, but the city’s emergency management operation was prepared in…
Read More »More than 250 people gathered in the lobby of the Mark and Elisia Saab Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center at UMass Lowell today to help the university honor former Steve Panagiotakos for his efforts on behalf of the university while serving in the Massachusetts State Senate. Besides Steve’s family and…
Read More »This is the second installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. To help commemorate this anniversary in Lowell, each week during 2017 and 2018, I hope to post the daily headlines that appeared…
Read More »Lowell Walks Kick-off Seventy people ventured to the North Common yesterday morning for the first Lowell Walk of the 2017 season. Our route took us across the Common, down Fletcher to Pawtucket to Salem and back to the beginning. Along the way we saw and talked about The North Common,…
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