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“Impossible Journey”
“Impossible Journey” Wood, Saplings, Handmade Stones by Andy Moerlein, UMass Lowell South Campus. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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Saturday is Lowell Give Back Day
There a multitude of events this spring in which ordinary people come together to help each other and to help the community. One such event is Lowell Give Back Day which happens this coming Saturday, May 12, 2012. Here’s how its organizers describe Lowell Give Back Day: A community project…
Read More »Legal Notices
The explosion of negative reaction to Mayor Murphy’s recent motion to post city legal notices on the city website instead of in the local newspaper obscures an important issue and that is, how are individuals to be notified of legal proceedings that might deprive them of their property and in…
Read More »Super Moon over Lowell
Last night John Boutselis ascended Christian Hill in Lowell to catch the rising of the Super Moon over the reservoir. He was kind enough to share with us the fantastic picture that resulted.
Read More »Howl in Lowell covers Lowell Cemetery Tour
Caroline Gallagher of Howl in Lowell joined yesterday’s tour of Lowell Cemetery and shot some video (shown below) to accompany the story I wrote for Howl about the cemetery. (Be sure to check out the Local History section of Howl in Lowell for my weekly stories on Lowell’s history). Yesterday’s…
Read More »Increasing cooperation among local access TV stations
Several months ago Comcast on very short notice dictated to Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, the city’s public access television and technology organization, that local government programming that had long appeared on Channel 10 on Lowell cable would be switched to Channel 99. Although that transition seemed to have gone smoothly, I…
Read More »The Pirate Party
This past weekend someone told me that a candidate from the Massachusetts Pirate Party was seeking nomination signatures in Lowell to qualify for the November ballot for an elective office (I’m not sure which one). Perhaps confusing the Pirate Party with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I dismissed it…
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares his thoughts with us tonight: Did you ever watch the world pass you by and you have no idea what anyone is talking about? That’s the situation I am in now, basic things like my 40th. reunion for the Lowell High School are understandable but…
Read More »Happy Law Day
May 1st was always a day on which workers celebrated hard-won rights, but after 1919 it also became a day for the Soviet Union to exalt its military might. While the massive parades in Red Square were a boon for Western intelligence services – the Soviets always rolled out their…
Read More »Mill City Skill Share coming this Sunday
Social networking is great, but to me its true value is to make it easier for people to come together in-person and get things done. A great example of this comes on Sunday at “Mill City Skill Share” during which a number of individuals have volunteered to share a skill…
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