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Photo and text by Tony Sampas. The Red Bridge is located near Pevey and Kyan Streets, is forty feet in height and spans 160 feet over the Pawtucket Canal. Its current owner is the Boston and Maine Railroad. From the Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory, Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott: “The…
Read More »This coming Wednesday, March 21, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., I will be at the J.V. Fletcher Library in Westford (50 Main Street) to give a talk on the city of Lowell and the coming of the Civil War. This is a presentation I gave last year in Lowell and in…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Sequestration is here. Our “leaders” in Washington cannot reach a budget agreement. They set up sequestration as a default option that would…
Read More »Tonight at 7 pm at Lowell’s Pollard Memorial Library, Chaim Rosenberg and I will talk about our new book, Legendary Locals of Lowell, after which we will sign copies of the book. The gathering will be in the ground floor Community Room and we will have books for sale. The…
Read More »St. Patrick’s Church, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »V.F.W. Highway from the UMass Lowell North Campus Garage. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Middlesex Superior Courthouse at 360 Gorham Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Legendary Locals of Lowell is now available locally at Guy Lefebvre’s Lowell Gallery at 14 Jackson Street. Just around the corner from Central Street, Lowell Gallery is a treasure trove of historic images and artifacts of Lowell as well as a great place to get something framed. Plenty of convenient…
Read More »Lowell’s Franco American School will hold its annual spring auction this year on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7 pm at Mt Pleasant Golf Club (99 Staples Street in Lowell). The theme this year is a Chocolate Festival which is enough by itself to get me to attend. In addition…
Read More »Tonight (March 13) at 6:30 and again on April 10 at 6:30 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber, the city of Lowell will hold public hearings on the state of cable TV service in Lowell. This is a once-every-five-years important opportunity for you to share your views on cable…
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