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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.
Read More »I didn’t expect the snow to begin until later this morning but at least an inch had fallen by 5 am. I’ll either update this post or add others as the storm progresses. Please send you pictures and observations to me at DickHoweJr@gmail.com or leave them here as comments.
Read More »Many decades ago there was a local radio announcer whose name I now forget who boom out across the airwaves “No school, all schools in Lowell” on days when the weather cancelled school for the day. (Maybe someone can help me with that name). Modern technology has given us Jay…
Read More »It’s New Year’s Day and the stores are already displaying candy for Valentine’s Day
Read More »Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. For several years I’ve been intrigued by this practice. It’s certainly common around here but is it just a Lowell thing? Or is it a New England tradition? What are the origins of this tradition? Why do people do it? Where do you get…
Read More »Yesterday I drove to Logan Airport for the first time since last Friday’s closure of the Callahan Tunnel which will remain closed until the end of March. From Lowell I took Route 3 south to Route 95/128 south to the Mass Turnpike east. I stayed on the Turnpike, passing through…
Read More »As this story from the Daily National Intelligencer (Washington D.C.) on New Year’s Day 1847 reminds us, be careful out there tonight and tomorrow: FATAL ACCIDENT AT LOWELL. — The Lowell Courier of Saturday states that a young man named HALL fell from the sixth story of the large Middlesex…
Read More »With no city council meeting last or this week due to Christmas and New Year’s, there’s not much new to report on politics in the city. That’s good because with this being the final Sunday of 2013, it’s time to review the year in local politics. Here are some observations…
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