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There’s plenty to do in Lowell this weekend and this coming week. Here are some highlights: Saturday, April 22, 2017 La Guagua Community Poetry Festival The Middlesex Humanities Center of Middlesex Community College is holding an all-day poetry festival today at the Federal Building at 50 Kearney Square. Called…
Read More »Lowell’s first Points of Light Lantern Celebration will take place this Saturday, April 22, 2017, from 5 to 9 pm at Ecumenical Plaza which spans the Western Canal in in front of Holy Trinity and St. Patrick’s churches at 282 Suffolk Street in Lowell. Organized by DIY Lowell and many…
Read More »Next Wednesday night – April 26, 2017 – from 7 to 9 pm, I’ll be at the UMass Lowell O’Leary Library at 61 Wilder Street for a “Local Author Marketplace” organized by the UMass Lowell Library. All three of my books will be available for sale that evening. They are:…
Read More »When UMass Lowell honored Steve Panagiotakos last week, the former state senator in his remarks explained that the house he grew up in, the house he lives in now, and the law office he works in, are all within a few blocks of each other in Lowell. He has never…
Read More »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…
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