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After electing five new city councilors in 1969, the voters continued to make changes in 1971 when 33,000 voters went to the polls in heavy rain and ousted three incumbents, Sam Pollard, Armand LeMay and John Mahoney while overwhelmingly defeating a proposal to change the city’s Plan E form of…
Read More »Thanks to Eileen Loucraft for sending along a front-page story from the December 5, 1942 Lowell Sun which commemorated the first anniversary of the death of two Lowell service men in the Pearl Harbor attack from a year earlier. The article, reproduced in full below, gives a sense of life…
Read More »Smokestack Christmas Tree, photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Because the Bruins amazing streak of no losses has coincided with my own housebound medical rehab, my enthusiasm for hockey is strong these days and I anxiously await each game (tonight v Winnipeg at 8:30 on NESN). Last night’s 3 to 1 victory over Pittsburgh was especially noteworthy, with the…
Read More »Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a “Sunrise” radio essay, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun and showing up on this blog again last year. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more to all who either love or loathe the…
Read More »The election of five new city councilors in November 1969 made City Manager Charles Gallagher’s tenure in office uncertain. Gallagher, who had worked for the city for 33 years, was elected City Manager in December 1966 after a long stint as city treasurer. The end came when Gallagher resigned as…
Read More »Merrimack Place, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit yesterday against a number of national lenders seeking civil penalties and restitution for unfair and deceptive business practices related to home mortgages (PDF of Suffolk Superior Court complaint HERE). By my reading of the complaint, the improper conduct alleged can be divided into…
Read More »Housing authorities have been much in the news lately, whether it’s in Chelsea, Dracut or Lowell, but that’s not necessarily a new phenomenon. I recently came across a 1973 Lowell Sun column by Carolyn Miegel that touched upon an alleged housing authority controversy and then provided a glimpse into ethnic…
Read More »Two images, each a bit different, of the same scene – by Tony Sampas
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