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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recent memories of Cape Cod breezes, warm sunshine and gentle waves can’t dispel the acid taste left in the mouth by Congress’ despicable( and self-inflicted) game of chicken around raising the debt ceiling, followed by the eighth largest…
Read More »Historian Paul Hudon, the author of The Valley & Its Peoples: An Illustrated History of the Lower Merrimack and the recently published All in Good Time, contributes the following essay: It’s my guess that most of us have seen one or two TV commercials pushing drugs. Good drugs of course.…
Read More »One of our frequent commenters, Kad Barma, posted a comment to a recent post by Jim Peters. While the main point of the comment is to explain why Federal spending must be curtailed (a conclusion with which I disagree but I’ll address that in a future post), KB also posits…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peter sent along the following in the aftermath of the debt ceiling crisis resolution: I watched with a great deal of interest the situation as it regards raising the debt “ceiling” which was just avoided with a compromise that could hardly be dignified by that term. It…
Read More »This year’s Lowell City Council race is attracting substantial interest in Cambodia. The Phnom Penh Post recently ran a big story about the race with special emphasis on the two Cambodian-American candidates, Van Pech and Vesna Nuon both running for the city council. The article features an interview with Pech…
Read More »One of the three Quebe Sisters (Grace) with bass player Drew Phelps, photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »Weather-wise, this was one of the nicest Folk Festival days I recall. Not a cloud in the sky and the warmth of the sun was tempered by a cooling breeze. It was crowded and most folks seemed to congregate at the respective stages. All that I visited were crowded (Bill…
Read More »A new homeowner called me today. She, her husband and their son moved into a very nice Lowell home a short time ago. One item that needed attention was the granite front stairs. The mortar holding them in place had eroded and had to be replaced. But when the homeowners…
Read More »The local newspaper today erroneously reports that the remains of Martin Murray, a World War Two aviator from Lowell who was lost when his B-24 crashed in New Guinea in 1943, will be buried this coming Monday at Arlington National Cemetery. As we reported HERE back in April, Lieutenant Murray’s…
Read More »Last evening I joined nearly forty others at the Lowell Senior Center for this week’s “visioning session” which was “Community Character and Civic Engagement.” The format was the same as the last session I attended. After a brief review of the city’s Master Plan of 2000, we broke up into…
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