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Nancye Tuttle braved tonight’s cold to take in Lowell’s annual City of Lights parade. As she explains in her blog post about the parade, her effort was amply rewarded. She, and everyone she ran into, seemed to have a great time.
Read More »Between the recent release of the report on corrupt hiring practices in the state’s probation department and the cancellation of several high school sporting events, patronage and corruption have been much in the news. In his “Talking Politics” blog at the Boston Phoenix, columnist David Bernstein makes a connection between…
Read More »More stained glass from Tony Sampas. Today, the Pawtucket Congregational Church on Mammoth Road. “He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom.”
Read More »The city of Lowell is home to an incredible blogosphere that becomes more active with each passing day. Life on-line can be greatly enhanced, however, when its participants get together on the ground and so we invite all area bloggers, commenters, readers, social media-users and anyone else interested to gather…
Read More »Today was a wonderful day: outstanding late fall weather, great coverage of local high school football by WCAP to accompany food prep, friends and family over for a relaxed, more-than-filling turkey dinner, plenty of leftovers, a Patriots win, and Keith Urban performing at halftime of the Cowboys game (disregard that…
Read More »More images of stained glass windows at the Pollard Memorial Library. Photos by Tony Sampas.
Read More »Tony Sampas shows us two of the incredible stained glass windows in our city’s Pollard Memorial Library UPDATE: Tony sent along the following information about these two windows From the Pollard’ website: “Altogether a creditable building” boasted a local newspaper when Lowell’s Memorial Building opened in 1893… A disastrous fire…
Read More »Today is known as the busiest travel day of the year. I’m thankful that my journey, such as it is, will be by automobile and not by airplane. All the recent furor about enhanced pre-boarding searches at airports leaves me frustrated. Just eleven months ago, on Christmas Day 2009, 23-year…
Read More »The bombshell revelation in the Sunday Globe that Middlesex County Sheriff Jim DiPaola would resign on January 6, 2011 after just winning reelection on November 2, 2010 has already prompted several posts (Here by Marie and here by me). With so many unanswered questions, much more will undoubtedly be written.…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this day in 1984, Boston College’s Doug Flutie threw his famous “Hail Mary” pass that defeated defending college football champions, the University of Miami. In spite of Flutie’s recent transformation into a Schilling-like Republican Party groupie, I must admit that this play is one…
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