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Lowell Walks will kick-off this year with a North Common walk on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 10 am. This walk will begin at the Murkland School, 350 Adams Street, Lowell and will be led by Dick Howe. This area of Lowell is packed with history and interesting stories. The…
Read More »This past Tuesday night I attended the Commonwealth Conversations event at UMass Lowell which featured twelve State Senators visiting Lowell to listen to the concerns of area residents. It was an impressive event which I wrote about in a separate post. Please take a look at it if you haven’t…
Read More »Basic Training, Lackland Air Force Base, Summer 1975 By Mike Boudreau Mike Boudreau grew up crisscrossing the city of Boston before settling in Tyngsboro, MA, in 2002. After a 28-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he returned to New England and earned a Masters in Community and Social Psychology…
Read More »Every individual, whether at work or at home, relies on electronic information and communications in some way. Recent events remind us that those communications and that information is vulnerable to exploitation by criminals and others. Protecting yourself against cyber-crime is an essential part of living in today’s connected world. Recognizing…
Read More »Cote’s Wallpaper, 331 Broadway From the Lowell Planning and Development Collection, Lowell Historical Society, image made possible by a Digitization Grant from the Lowell Cultural Council, 2016 Gone Lowell is a series of photographs shared by Tony Sampas of buildings that once stood in Lowell, but are now gone.
Read More »From Mehmed Ali: Please join the Parker Lecture Series and the University Library for some engaging political discussion at two upcoming events. On Thursday, March 30th former Governor John H Sununu will be welcomed to the Inn and Conference Center for a lecture on the Presidency of George H.W. Bush. Sununu was the…
Read More »Last evening, hosted by State Senator Eileen Donoghue and led by Senate President Stan Rosenberg, nearly one-third of the entire Massachusetts State Senate came to Lowell for the latest Commonwealth Conversations session. Senators present (shown seated at the table in the above photo, from left to right, while being welcomed…
Read More »Go to England; Discover Kerouac By Mike Boudreau Mike Boudreau grew up crisscrossing the city of Boston before settling in Tyngsboro, MA, in 2002. After a 28-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he returned to New England and earned a Masters in Community and Social Psychology at UMASS Lowell…
Read More »City Council Meeting With the cancellation of last Tuesday’s council meeting due to winter storm Stella, this coming Tuesday’s meeting will be a long one. The eleven motions related to the Lowell High expansion that I wrote about last Sunday will all be heard, plus the council will take up…
Read More »Manning Field, a little-known complex of two Little League/softball fields on Boston Road on the southern perimeter of Lowell, has been in the news lately as a possible “replication” site for greenspace at Cawley Stadium that is encumbered by state use restrictions. The city wants the option of constructing a…
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