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My records indicate that the last time the city of Lowell held a primary election for city council was in 1999. Here are the results with incumbents in italics and the order of finish in the general election in brackets: 1. Rita Mercier – 4820 – [1] 2. Eileen Donoghue…
Read More »The clock at Lowell City Hall, by Tony Sampas
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve been a big fan of Newton Mayor Setti Warren, 19 months into his first term and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Scott Brown. As BlueMass Group pointed…
Read More »Tomorrow at 5 pm is the deadline for candidates in the 2011 Lowell City Council race to turn in their nomination papers. While we’re not yet sure who will be on the ballot, here’s a list of the candidates who took out papers with a list of the political offices…
Read More »The memory of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival lingers, thanks to these photos from Tony Sampas.
Read More »The archeological excavation of the lawn in front of St Patrick’s Church in Lowell which commenced last summer and was supposed to resume tomorrow has been pushed back a day due to travel delays experienced by the team coming from Ireland to conduct the dig. The project should begin on…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. Give the proverbial man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for…
Read More »At the end of last week I had to make a quick drive down and back to Washington. The morning I left, I noticed a review of an exhibit that recently opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum called “The Great American Hall of Wonders: Art, Science and Invention in…
Read More »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.…
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