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On this date 150 years ago, Lowell’s Benjamin Butler took command of Fort Monroe, a massive installation at the southern tip of Hampton, Virginia that remained in Union hands throughout the Civil War. Very early in his tenure at Fort Monroe, Butler was confronted with the novel problem of what…
Read More »The City Manager’s blog and others in the city have written of the possibility that Cape Ann Fresh Catch, a community supported fishery, is trying to decide if it should participate in the Lowell Farmer’s Market this summer. (The Farmer’s Market sets up in front of City Hall each Friday…
Read More »I recently asked Justin Kwan, the founder of the new Lowell-based website culturehive.com to send a post introducing himself and his website: When I moved to the Lowell area four years ago, I was first introduced to the art scene from a post about the Urban Village Art Series that…
Read More »As a 1986 graduate of Suffolk University Law School, this is my 25th reunion year. That plus a unique and complex chain of events led to me serving as the Marshal of today’s Suffolk Law School graduation at the Boston Convention Center. My duties involved leading the procession of graduates,…
Read More »A group led by former State Senator Steve Panagiotakos and Trinity EMS co-founder John Chemaly gathered yesterday at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center for a rally to keep the Fifth Congressional District intact in the upcoming redistricting process. With Congressional redistricting following close behind the every-ten-year Federal census,…
Read More »The issue of whether the city should release the resumes of unsuccessful applicants to city boards has moved to the forefront of of local political discussions. As I type this, Bernie Lynch is discussing it on “City Life” with John McDonough and George Anthes and Mimi and Gerry Nutter have…
Read More »Today I visited Lowell’s Sullivan Middle School to speak with the eighth graders about Lowell and the Civil War. They had just started that covering that conflict in history class, so my presentation which includes the many Lowell connections to the start of the war such as Lowell resident Gustavus…
Read More »An increasingly popular trend in state governments across the country is to privatize prisons. The New Hampshire legislature just voted to do it in that state with the promise that it would save taxpayers $10 million over the next two years. Most of these private prisons are in the southwest,…
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Read More »This weekend there will be two tours of the Lowell Cemetery. The first will be Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1 pm. The second will be Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 10 am. The tours begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery which is off Rogers Street next…
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