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Everyone is invited to hear the acclaimed African peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee speak at UMass Lowell on Monday, April 4, at 12.30 pm, in the O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, on UML’s South Campus. Parking is available in the Visitor Lot on Wilder. She is the…
Read More »Posting that photo this morning reminded me that former Congressman/former Massachusetts Attorney General Jim Shannon wrote a thoughtful op-ed piece in the Globe back in September 2010 about the Cerberus/Steward take-over of the six-hospital Caritas Health Care System. The situation with Saints Medical Center and a quite likely buy-out by Steward makes…
Read More »I really like this cartoon about “April as Poetry Month” on the Pollard Memorial Library blog site. Check out the PML site and read about all the events scheduled for the month of April here.
Read More »There’s a report in today’s Boston Globe that there is a tentative agreement in place for the Steward Health Care System that recently purchased the Caritas hospital system to acquire Saints Medical Center in Lowell. For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, with community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expected…
Read More »Save the Date! 5th Annual FREE Earth Day Festival! Hosted by Lowell’s Community Gardens Greenhouse Sunday, April 17 | Noon to 4pm Rain or Shine 220 Aiken Street, Lowell Lowell National Park Maintenance Site View/download the event flyer! Free hands-on fun for the whole family! * Create arts and crafts…
Read More »Lowell and the Civil War: First Blood: Lexington of 1861 Exhibit and Reception Monday, April 18, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Mogan Cultural Center 40 French Street Lowell, Massachusetts 01852 The country had come to the conclusion that Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet were mainly employed in packing their…
Read More »The Lowell Historical Society’s “Lowell and the Civil War” presentation with Dick Howe as the guest speaker is tomorrow morning at 11:30am at the Lowell National Historical Park’s Visitors’ Center at 246 Market Street. Repost: Lowell Historical Society Presents a Series on Lowell’s Sixth Regiment in the Civil War and Beyond Richard P. Howe Jr.,…
Read More »It’s Friday night and I have a few minutes to catch up on the news. Here are some things that caught my eye: A year or so ago the New York Times launched a hyperlocal blog covering the Fort Green neighborhood in Brooklyn. I glance at it occasionally to see…
Read More »Today’s Globe had a very un-Globe-like headline (“Whites still abandoning cities in Mass) above a story on the just-released data from the 2010 census. The story reports that 43 of 45 large communities “saw declines in white population” and that fourteen of them — including Lowell — dropped by double…
Read More »There’s a buzz around town, in the Hall, in the diners and on the street – local and otherwise – about a sequel to “The Fighter.” Most importantly both Mark Wahlberg and David O. Russell are in on it! Wahlberg currently has a few other projects going – the film…
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