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Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares some thoughts on life, the Patriots and politics Somewhere between my awareness of our light grip on life, my empathy for the Syrian people, and my understanding of our never-ending quest for knowledge (the Great Satchmo had it just right when he said that our…
Read More »Monday night (February 6, 2012) from 5 pm to 7 pm at the City Council chambers at Lowell City Hall (375 Merrimack Street), the MBTA will hold a public hearing on the fee increase and service cutbacks to commuter rail that have been proposed to help balance the T’s budget.…
Read More »Yesterday I joined a tour of the still-under-construction Western Avenue Lofts at 150 Western Avenue in Lowell. Adjacent to the better-known Western Avenue Studios, Western Avenue Lofts is a two-story brick building bordering the Pawtucket Canal that is being transformed into 50 rental live/work spaces for artists. The building is…
Read More »Jim Peters is a frequent contributor to this site. Here’s another of his essays on local Native Americans. Time, it is often said, passes quickly. It seemed to for Passaconaway, the wise man and Chief of the Pawtucket tribe. Like many rulers, he wanted to make sure that, in his…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »A recent post by fellow blogger and downtown resident Kad Barma which showed fragments of a broken beer mug in a downtown doorway got me thinking about a book called “Ghost Map” by Steven Johnson. Subtitled “The story of London’s most terrifying epidemic – and how it changed science, cities…
Read More »At the end of each month on the LowellDeeds blog I do a post that compares that month’s recording statistics with the same month a year earlier. Today’s post shows that January 2011 was a better month than January 2012 for deeds, mortgages and foreclosures. But today I also looked…
Read More »More photos from Lowell Cemetery. By Tony Sampas.
Read More »At work I subscribe to an email service from the Governor’s office that notifies recipients anytime the Governor orders flags to be flown at half-staff. The text of one that arrived today went something like this: Please be advised that Governor Patrick has ordered that the United States flag and…
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