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Signs of Lowell: The Club Diner
Tony Sampas serves up some close-ups of the Club Diner
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CTI Local Heroes
Community Teamwork Inc held it’s Local Heroes award ceremony this evening to honor nine people or entities whose activities during the past year of made Greater Lowell a better community. Besides this year’s honorees, several dozen prior award recipients were present this evening. Together they all served as a tangible…
Read More »The North Common by Night
Tony Sampas and his camera venture out into the North Common in the evening.
Read More »In California, Whitman endorses Brown
Meg Whitman, the former president of eBay who has spent in excess of $140mil of her $1.6 billion net worth running for governor of California as the Republican nominee, recently commented that the reason she came to California thirty years ago because back then so much was getting done in…
Read More »Ben Butler’s Toothpick
A regular reader sent along these photos of Butler’s Toothpick, a navigation aid at the mouth of the Merrimack River. The photographer’s email follows. I must admit, I’ve never heard of this before but I’ll have to check it out next time I’m in the vicinity. I thought you might…
Read More »Flu shots and other innoculations
It’s hard to remember back to last year when we were blanketed with ominous warnings of a devastating strain of influenza that put us all at risk. At the same time, the vaccine for the expected strain was difficult, nearly impossible, to find. Fortunately we all made it through that…
Read More »Anti-Bullying Forum on Wednesday night
This Wednesday night (October 27), Saints Medical Center will host a presentation at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium beginning at 7 pm. The featured speaker will be Rosalind Wiseman, an internationally recognized expert on children, teens, parenting, bullying, social justice and ethical leadership, who is the author of Queen Bees and…
Read More »Signs of Lowell
More Lowell signage by Tony Sampas. Above, 142 Middle Street alongside Owl Stamp Company. Below? Any guesses?
Read More »“No on Question 3” by John Edward
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, recently urged readers to vote NO on Question 1 and NO on Question 2 in the upcoming state election. Today he tackles Question 3 concerning the…
Read More »Signs of Lowell – from the past
Tony Sampas shares some photos of old signs in Lowell. Above is the Thorndike Factory Outlet building just across from the train station; below is the Fairburn Building.
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