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Catching up on accumulated dead-tree newspapers from the past few days, I found a greater-than-usual collection of interesting stories. Here’s a sampling: Fox versus Fox The New York Times reports on how the animated Fox television program, The Simpsons, has taken several shots at its corporate companions, Fox News. One…
Read More »Tony Sampas views Lowell City Hall by night in early December. “Peace on Earth”
Read More »This Saturday (December 4) anytime between 9 am and 11 am, everyone is invited to stop by Top Donut at 700 Aiken Street in Lowell (at intersection with VFW Highway, just across the river from Lelacheur Park) for a Greater Lowell Blogger Meet-up. It’s just an opportunity for folks who,…
Read More »By the fall of 1864, Union commander Ulysses Grant had concluded that the surest way to end the Civil War was to decisively defeat the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee and the surest way to do that was to continue to drive on Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy.…
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 which deserves to be read by everyone. ————————————- Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise Thomas Gray If ignorance is…
Read More »More views of the Francis Gate by Tony Sampas.
Read More »I’m starting to see some early indicators of a turnaround in real estate in the Greater Lowell region. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it may not be the beginning of the end of the housing slump, but it could very well be the end of the beginning. Here at the end…
Read More »Tony Sampas ventured out to the Francis Gatehouse to photograph the ingenious gate designed by James B Francis that saved downtown Lowell from flooding on several occasions.
Read More »This coming Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 8 pm, Image Theater will present its sixth annual “Keep Your Kids at Home Naughty Readings” at The Old Court at the corner of Central and Middle Street in downtown Lowell. Organizers describe this event as “seven original ‘adult only’ plays that go…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some close-ups of the old Central Fire Station at 45 Palmer Street.
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