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[youtube]A0jha147lE4[/youtube] Garment workers in Cambodia who earn pennies to make many of the high cost clothes we all wear here in America recently went on strike for higher wages. Their job action earned a violent response from the government. Several days ago, four protesters were killed in confrontations with the…
Read More »Here’s a great story from Lowell’s past from Mehmed Ali and Beth Brassel: Moody Gardens By Mehmed Ali and Beth Brassel Between 1950 and 1970, Lowell, Mass., saw its status as an industrial dynamo erode. The textile industry shrank to almost nothing and many residents quit on the city, moving…
Read More »Welcome – or welcome back – to Jack Mitchell. He’s rejoined the Lowell blogosphere after a very brief hiatus by launching his own site called “Lowell Live Feed.” His first post, “Inaugural”, lays out his objectives for the site and also breaks some news with a story about an erroneously…
Read More »Starting a new trash program on January 1 might be necessary, but the unpredictability of the weather always makes it a risky proposition. Such was the case with the launch of Lowell’s new single stream recycling system last week. My normal trash pickup day is Thursday, so with the New…
Read More »It’s been nearly a month since there’s been a city council meeting, we’ve just emerged from a major blizzard and arctic temperatures, and a new council gets sworn in on Monday morning and meets for the first time on Tuesday night. Depending on one’s perspective, Monday will be the birth…
Read More »With Wednesday being the New Year’s Day holiday and with the blizzard that closed the courthouse early on Thursday and all day on Friday, it was a mixed week in Lowell real estate. There were some noteworthy transactions: On Tuesday, a large mill complex on Jackson Street sold for $2mil…
Read More »I just finished reading Frederik Logevall’s Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2012. A professor of history at Cornell, Logevall uses recently released diplomatic archives from several countries to paint a comprehensive portrait of…
Read More »Here’s some news from Mill City Grows “Build-A-Garden” Program Brings Five New Vegetable Gardens to Lowell Lowell Housing Authority, Stoklosa School, Robinson School, Pawtucket Congregational Church, and UTEC to install garden beds in April Lowell, MA – January 3rd 2014. Mill City Grows, an initiative that fosters food justice by…
Read More »Guest contributors are always welcome. Send your post or pictures by email to DickHoweJr@gmail.com and I’ll add them to our site. Maxine Farkas, an artist who lives and works at Western Avenue sent the following. Remember, tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month so it’s Open Studios at Western…
Read More »Just got word that the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in Lowell will be closed ALL DAY on Friday due to winter storm.
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