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Pokemon Go[es] to the Library
From Tony Sampas . . . “One of many groups of “Pokémon Go” players wandering the Lowell night with their smart phones seeking “digital creatures, which appear overlaid on the real world.”
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Lowell City Council Meeting: July 12, 2016
Vote – The council authorized the city manager to enter into an agreement with Barbara Poole, a local artist, which will allow her to install sheer fabric panes of various colors in the openings of the brick wall of the former Appleton Mills building that runs along the Pawtucket Canal…
Read More »Literary Lowell: A Bibliography
This past Saturday, Sean Thibodeau, the Coordinator of Community Planning at the Pollard Memorial Library, led a Lowell Walk on Literary Lowell. Sean told some great stories about writers who were from Lowell, visited Lowell, or wrote about Lowell. Throughout the tour, participants asked for a list of the works…
Read More »Old Glory, Holy Trinity, St. Patrick’s
This photo from Tony Sampas is a reminder of the cool and cloudy July weekend that just passed:
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: July 10, 2016
Local Development Roundup: It was a relatively quiet week in local political news so let’s take a quick look at the status of some of the major development projects in the city: Hamilton Canal District: There have been a few positive developments for the Hamilton Canal District including the selection…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Weeks of June 27 & July 4, 2016
Here are real estate sales in Lowell during the past two weeks: Week of June 27, 2016 June 27, 2016 – Monday490 Central St for $360,000. Prior sale in 2012 for $225,0002410 Skyline Drive Unit 12 for $135,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $115,00030 Damon St for $235,000. Prior sale…
Read More »Grand Opening of Lowell Farmers’ Market
The following is from Marie Sweeney: The 29th Annual CTI / Lowell Farmers’ Market had a Grand-Opening ribbon-cutting today with the help of Lowell Mayor Ed Kennedy. The Farmers’ Market operates on Fridays through mid-October (except during the Lowell Folk Festival) on JFK Plaza adjacent to Lowell City Hall from…
Read More »Big Night for Literature in Lowell
An overflow crowd packed Hypertext Bookstore Café this evening for the Loom Press Writers Reading event. Paul Marion, the proprietor of Loom Press which specializes in publishing poetry and prose from Lowell and the Merrimack Valley, recruited a great collection of writers to read from their work. The lineup included…
Read More »A Literary Week in Lowell
If you are interested in literature about Lowell or written by people from Lowell, there are a couple of events this week for you. This Thursday (July 7) night, at 6 pm at HyperText Bookstore Café at 107 Merrimack Street, Paul Marion will convene a group of poets and authors…
Read More »“Trump’s Trade War” by John Edward
John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. This is the fourth in a series of columns he has written on economic issues related to the upcoming presidential election. The first column, “The 100 Percent,” appeared on May 16, 2016; the second, “Voodoo Two,” on May 23, 2016; the…
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