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There have been several announcements recently that the city of Lowell is now using a web tool called SeeClickFix to better allow residents to communicate non-emergency problems to City Hall. A concise explanation of SeeClickFix can be found in this Wikipedia entry. You can access the site anonymously and either…
Read More »Anyone interested in social media in Lowell should stop by Ward Eight, the (relatively) new restaurant & pub at 280 Central Street (at the corner of Central and Green in the former JJ Turner’s Pub) at 5:30 tonight. Many of the city’s most active Twitter users will be gathering there…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas
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Read More »Merrimack Valley Business magazine just released its second “40 Under 40” edition, which features 40 “up-and-coming business people who are making a profound difference in their fields and the [Merrimack Valley]. Among the honorees is Jessica Wilson, Executive Director of Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (front row, fourth from right) and Danielle…
Read More »Here’s a list of the members of the Lowell School Committee since 1981 with some occasional notes and some (but not yet all) of the unsuccessful candidates. Over time, I hope to add vote totals and all candidates for the earlier years. Crowd sourcing is a great way to accomplish…
Read More »In the aftermath of last week’s conviction of a Haverhill teen of causing the death of another by texting while driving, today’s Globe publishes a letter to the editor advocating the complete ban of all cell phone use while driving a car. The letter’s author is “Kathleen M. O’Donnell of…
Read More »Lowell has many churches. Several of the Roman Catholic edifices have the architectural beauty of some of the finest of European cathedrals, and the clergy shepherd their flocks carefully. from George Kenngott, “The Record of a City” Thus wrote George Kenngott in his 1912 book “The Record of a City:…
Read More »In a New York Times Op-Ed yesterday, Daniel Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, offers an evolutionary explanation for our obesity epidemic and provides some context for the ongoing debate over limiting or taxing portion sizes of sugary soft drinks and other sweets. The essay is not…
Read More »I didn’t want the anniversary of D-Day to pass without comment. Below is a repeat of the post I did today for the LowellDeeds blog. Above and far below are photos from a family visit to Normandy back in 2004. The Allied invasion of Normandy – D-Day – occurred 68…
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