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Television Review: “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” — An Abstruse Athlete Review by David Daniel This review originally appeared on The Arts Fuse (which is “Boston’s Premier Online Arts Magazine” – please check it out.) **** Near the end of Enigma, a new Netflix documentary about Aaron Rodgers, there’s a segment that…
Read More »LHS a century ago – (PIP #55) By Louise Peloquin To echo Richard Howe’s January 12, 2025 substack (1), here is a throwback into Lowell High School. L’Etoile – September 17, 1924 THE HIGH SCHOOL BARELY SUFFICES FOR ALL OF THE STUDENTS There are 2510 students this year. – That…
Read More »Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was brief with just three motions and a handful of motion responses on the agenda. None seemed controversial. In the absence of any pressing council business, today I’ll provide a preview of the coming city election which will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.…
Read More »BOOK REVIEW: The Pride of the ACRE Book by Stephen O’Connor Review by Ed DeJesus Participants of this blog would agree that reading distinguished Lowell, MA author Stephen O’Connor’s short stories and novels is always a joy. But his latest, “The Pride of the ACRE, is a gem! Move over…
Read More »Watching the Merrimack By Jacqueline Malone Water takes what is given and makes visible the wind, the pull of gravity, time in the constant erosion of riverbeds, the constant deposit of gravelly isles. Water mixes, transforms, dissolves, and returns silt,…
Read More »Snow was general all over Lowell – (PIP #54) By Louise Peloquin These accounts of winter in New England demonstrate the newspaper’s regard for the local community. The reader shares the city’s concern for its citizens and for its public service employees as they pursue daily activities or revel…
Read More »In honor of today’s observation of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, here’s a story of King’s visit to Lowell, Massachusetts. In honor of today’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, here’s a reminder that King visited Lowell on April 12, 1953. Rev. Otto Loverude, the pastor of the First…
Read More »On Tuesday, the Lowell City Council voted to demolish the Smith Baker Center, a former church and community center that sits across Merrimack Street from City Hall. The outcome of the vote was predictable, since for nearly a year a majority of councilors have publicly expressed a preference for demolition…
Read More »THE GREATEST HITTER EVER WAS UNDERRATED By Charlie Gargiulo My earliest TV sports memory is sitting with my late Uncle Leo watching the Red Sox sometime during the 1960 season. I was already playing baseball for a few years but the bug about following major league baseball players was just…
Read More »Living Madly: Wheel of Fortune By Emilie-Noelle Provost When most Americans hear the term “Wheel of Fortune,” the long-running television game show is probably what comes to mind. But the original Wheel of Fortune, from which the show took its name, dates back to the ancient Romans. Known as Rota…
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