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August 4, 2024 In the closing days of its just finished 2023-24 session, the Massachusetts State Legislature passed House Bill 4700, An Act authorizing the commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey certain parcels of land to the city of Lowell. The parcels to be conveyed are the former…
Read More »Joseph Albert Square – Worthen and Moody streets – Joseph E. Albert was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 1, 1945, at age 33 while serving with the United States Marine Corps. Born in 1912, Albert attended St. Joseph’s School and worked at the Lowell Ordnance plant prior…
Read More »For several years I’ve been compiling information about all the monuments and memorials in Lowell. There are nearly 700 on my list thus far. Besides identifying them all, I am researching the person, group, or event memorialized. Today I begin posting these biographical sketches here, one-by-one, with a couple each…
Read More »Paris 2024 – How they trained; where they’ll rest By Louise Peloquin How do athletes rev up their bodies to reach Olympic form? Let’s take a peek across the pond to the Emerald Isle. To prepare for specific conditions, some Irish athletes turned to what is now called “sport tech”…
Read More »The big news from Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting was the selection of Corey Belanger to serve the unexpired term of District 3 (Belvidere) Councilor John Leahy who resigned after taking a job with the Lowell School Department last week. This outcome surprised me, not because Belanger was selected but…
Read More »The following is a republication of a post by Paul Marion that first appeared here on July 28, 2013. It is being reposted in advance of this year’s Lowell Folk Festival which begins Friday, July 26, 2024, and runs through Sunday, July 28, 2024. Lowell Folk Festival Rates Five Starts…
Read More »Paris 2024 – Maximum security By Louise Peloquin Security agents from all over the world are joining the 35,000 French police officers and 18, 000 military to ensure maximum security during the Paris Games expected to welcome more than 15 million visitors. The French Ministry of the Interior is supervising approximately 1,800 agents…
Read More »Go jump in the…Seine! By Louise Peloquin Rehema Ellis closed NBC’s July 17th Nightly News with it, The New York Times published a brief and other news outlets covered the story. No scoop ahead, just a third update on the River Seine in the run-up to the Summer Olympics.…
Read More »Editor’s Note: English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse died in London on July 23, 2011, at age 27. When Amy Winehouse Died By David Daniel Black lipstick made sense. Passwords were changed; phones silenced. Fans got her name tattooed on their hearts. My old lady said let’s do a bump…
Read More »Another summer gap for Lowell City Council meetings so let’s revisit Lowell political history this week. Not long ago while researching Civil Rights lawsuit brought against Lowell for segregation and unequal treatment of minority students in the public schools in the mid-1980s, I was struck by how many other things…
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