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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…
Read More »A look out the window at 6 am revealed a thin white coating of snow on the cars and driveway, but the yard’s patches of dormant grass were fully visible. Only the bare patches were white. The snow had only just begun. Wakeup came later than usual on a weekday…
Read More »Another image from Lowell’s past . . . The original DeMoulas Supermarket on Dummer Street. Now the municipal parking lot at Dummer and Market Street, behind the Whistler House Museum of Art.
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