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Back in the spring of 1996 I didn’t spend much time in my office at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds within the Superior Courthouse on Gorham Street in Lowell. It was too noisy and dusty. Contractors were demolishing the once-stately St Peter’s Church which had been located directly across…
Read More »Ivy, our three-year old Yellow Lab, took advantage of today’s early sunshine to play in the snow: [youtube]2DOp3USpyeM[/youtube]
Read More »A few days ago Paul introduced us to a new website, “The Current Reader” by Malcolm Gregory Love who provides book reviews, recommendations and author interviews. Malcolm allowed us to cross-post his recent interview with author Jim Shepard. Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including most recently Project…
Read More »With the 7 am temperature only 3 degrees, not a lot of the 20 inches of snow that fell on Wednesday will be melting today. I have a couple of post-storm observations to share: During my two mile drive home from work last night, at two different spots I saw…
Read More »Last November, with the help of Eileen Loucraft (who also took the above photograph), I posted some death notices of Lowell residents who died in World War One. Here’s the beginning of my November 2, 2010 post: Another Lowell man has given up the greatest treasure he possessed for the…
Read More »The news is that Governor Patrick has replaced the Commonwealth’s entire parole board, the parole office’s executive director and has suspended a number of employees of the parole office, all in response to the December 26, 2010 murder of a Woburn police officer during a robbery by a career criminal…
Read More »Tony Sampas uses companion pictures of Lowell’s earliest Roman Catholic Church to illustrate this week’s snowfall.
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured up Lewis Street after the snow had stopped
Read More »With the twenty inches of snow – shown in these pictures shared by regular reader Paul S – that fell on Lowell just ending at around dusk, the school department wisely canceled school for tomorrow. I had to take the car out twice today – once late in the afternoon…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, contributes the following column The state of Massachusetts bucked the national trend in the 2010 elections. While most states were trending “red,” Massachusetts preserved its’ “blue”…
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