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By Vincent Valentine, founder of the Telephone Museum: In 1877, Boston was the global epicenter of innovation and Lowell was a prominent industrial complex supplying granite for canals and factory foundations. Rudimentary electrical componentry such as telegraph and alarm systems were leading edge. Charles Williams Jr’s electrical shop in Boston…
Read More »Coverage of the presidential election is increasing as the first electoral events draw near. The Iowa Caucus is on February 1, 2016, the New Hampshire Primary is on February 9, 2016, and the Massachusetts Primary is on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016. With that in mind, I decided to review…
Read More »Unfinished business: By Councilor Elliott to reconsider denial of grant of an easement to benefit property at 155 Mansur Street. Also vote to take out of order a petition by property owners (the Rombergs) to reconsider the denial of the petition to grant an easement onto his property from Fairview…
Read More »Random observations leftover from last week: Temperature Swings and Tires – Yesterday’s 57 degree high temperature provided quite a contrast to the 5 degrees at 6 a.m. on Tuesday with a stiff wind from the northwest. The tires on my car didn’t like it: the dashboard sensor read “Low Tire…
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Donald Trump Rally Last night I finished reading Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir by H.D.S. Greenway who wrote for Time, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe in a career that spanned five decades. Greenway’s specialty was reporting from war zones and he visited plenty of them, from Vietnam to Afghanistan.…
Read More »The following sales of real estate took place in Lowell last week: Lowell Real Estate: 2016 January 4, 2016 – Monday no sales January 5, 2016 – Tuesday 100-102 Aiken Ave for $247,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $180,000 January 6, 2016 – Wednesday 200 Market St Unit 3101 for…
Read More »John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, frequently contributes columns on economic issues. The following exchange occurred during a public hearing for a proposed affordable housing development in Chelmsford. Someone asked whether any units would be reserved for the elderly. Reasonable question, but the answer was no.…
Read More »Amy Bisson watched all 25 minutes of last night’s Lowell School Committee meeting, the first of the new session, and shared her notes from the meeting and her excellent analysis of the issues discussed on her website. Please check it out.
Read More »Jim Peters shares his thoughts on the benefits of having two high schools in Lowell: I was emailing my friend Cliff Krieger who commented that he was one of the minority who wanted two high schools. I thought about it, and was spurred on by a passing remark from a…
Read More »Vincent Valentine, founder of The Telephone Museum, shares another story about the early days of the telephone in Lowell: Charles Glidden and his brother Clark were struck with amazement at how adolescent boys can wreak havoc simply for the sake of wreaking havoc, no matter what the strict rules were…
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