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Driving home from a meeting in Worcester one day last week, I exited Route 495 at Boston Road Westford to grab a late lunch. There are many quick and casual dining choices just off the highway, but I had heard there was a Five Guys Burgers franchise in the vicinity.…
Read More »Congressman Ed Markey visited his Lowell campaign headquarters yesterday to fire up local supporters for the final Get Out The Vote push up to and through Primary Election Day this Tuesday. The polls will be open from 7:00 am until 8:00 pm. Please be sure to vote.
Read More »Lowell residents from across the city gathered yesterday to clean up, build beds, and get all ready for the growing season in five of Lowell’s Community Gardens: Franklin Court and Whiting Street in the Acre, Smith Street in the Lower Highlands, Rotary Club Park in Back Central, and West 3rd…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Governor Deval Patrick recently named Marian Ryan to be the new Middlesex District Attorney. Ryan, a prosecutor for more than thirty years in the Middlesex DA’s office, will serve the balance of the four year term to which Gerry Leone was elected in 2010. Leone resigned last month to go…
Read More »With the past week’s tragic and dramatic events now a part of history, life in Lowell can start edging back to normal. The primary for the special election for the U.S. Senate is a week away (Tuesday, April 30) and conflict at the city council meeting will grab center stage…
Read More »Earlier this evening there was a showing of “Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey” at Middlesex Community College. Two weeks ago I attended the Lowell premiere and wrote a short post about that event. Afterwards I wrote a more thorough review of the film which I’ve reproduced below: On Thursday, April 4,…
Read More »The grand opening of the Health & Social Sciences Building at the corner of Broadway and Wilder streets, South Campus will take place on Thursday, April 18 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. “The $40 million, 69,000-square-foot Health & Social Sciences Building will be home to three of the University’s…
Read More »A recurring theme in the books of the late, great military historian John Keegan was that some spots in the world are so strategically important that these same places become the sites of important battles over and over again. For instance, the battles of Agincourt (1415); Waterloo (1815) and the…
Read More »Among the many people from Greater Lowell who were severely injured in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing were Lowell High School senior Sydney Corcoran and her mother Celeste Corcoran. Family friends have created a site on GoFundMe.com on which people may contribute to a fund that will be used for the…
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