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Pollard Memorial Library, golden oak
Photos by Tony Sampas
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Lowell Cemetery tours today and tomorrow
Don’t miss the final Lowell Cemetery tours of 2014: today at 1 pm and tomorrow at 10 am. Both begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance right behind Shedd Park. Free and no registration required.
Read More »Jeff Speck at Lowell Plan Breakfast
Jeff Speck, a nationally recognized urban planner, was brought to Lowell four years ago by the Lowell Plan to draft a plan to improve the city’s downtown, primarily by making it more walkable. Called the “Lowell Downtown Evolution Plan”, Speck’s ideas have supporters and critics. Today Speck was the keynote…
Read More »Lowell: Place of Invention
This past Tuesday night the American Textile History Museum and Lowell Telecommunications Corporation hosted a preview of “Lowell: Place of Invention”, a series of four short videos about invention in Lowell that will premiere at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2015. Sponsored by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center…
Read More »“Letters from a Mill Girl” by Julie Mofford
Historian Julie Mofford shared the following which is based on letters sent home by a Lowell mill girl from 1861 to 1865 “You work in Lowell!” exclaimed our daughter-in-law’s father, Chuck Grover. “Why, my great-grandfather had a good friend who worked in the textile mills there. I inherited a stack…
Read More »Cafe UTEC open for business
Tuesday was the grand opening of Cafe UTEC which is located at 41 Warren Street in Lowell, just inside the UTEC building across from the Lowell District Court. The cafe is open Monday through Thursday from 11 am until 2 pm and offers a great new place for lunch in…
Read More »“The CEO Challenge” by John Edward
John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues. Imagine a new video has gone viral. In the video, a CEO announces he is issuing a share-the-wealth challenge to fellow executives. He lifts a bucket over a railing and dumps the…
Read More »Massachusetts Democratic Party Thanks Republican Karyn Polito for Highlighting Investments in Lowell
The Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Karyn Polito, was in Lowell today. She visited many of the places that have been funded by Governor Deval Patrick and the Democratically controlled State Legislature. The Massachusetts Democratic Party appreciates her efforts to draw attention to all of these accomplishments with the following…
Read More »Luna Theater at Mill No. 5
Lowell now has an Independent Cinema: The Luna Theater at Mill No. 5. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »“For Cassie” by John Wooding
John Wooding shares some thoughts on the death of his beloved dog of 16 years earlier this summer. It felt like the summer of death. So much grief and mayhem in the world. So many examples of the ways in which we have become adept at killing and maiming…
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