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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…
Read More »The following was submitted for posting by frequent contributor Jim Peters: I know it is spring because of the number of calls I receive for my landscaping business, but, more importantly, for the number of people I see getting out there and sprucing up their homes and businesses, like the…
Read More »While the weather certainly hasn’t been conducive to baseball, we are well into the second month of the season. This past Sunday, the Boston Globe travel section did a feature on minor league baseball in New England. I was surprised to find that there are ten minor league baseball teams…
Read More »Along Thorndike Street by Tony Sampas
Read More »The Lowell Historical Society held its annual meeting yesterday at Middlesex Community College’s Federal Building. Despite the heavy rain and impressive crowd of more than 60 folks showed up to hear a three member panel discuss various aspects of Lowell’s involvement in the American Civil War. Jack Herlihy of the…
Read More »[youtube]wPwZTky_yTU&t=1m19s[/youtube] Thanks to a reader who brought the above CNN video to our attention. It features Lowell-native, Army Colonel Ed Fleming, speaking to the residents of Butte La Rose, Louisiana about the need to evacuate in the face of coming floods that will leave 15 feet of water in their…
Read More »After the great success of “The Fighter”, Hollywood returns to the city of Lowell this week to film “Here Comes the Boom”, an action-comedy starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler. The film is about a high school science teacher who becomes involved in mixed martial arts in an…
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