Current Events

This Saturday at noon you will have a unique opportunity to take a guided walk underneath the Lowell Connector. Sponsored by the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust and led by its executive director, Jane Calvin, this walk will trace the intended path of the extension of the Bruce Freeman Trail.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   Finally, the bird gets even.  This is clearly a step beyond the President’s annual commuting of the Thanksgiving turkey’s death sentence.   “Turkey shoots down Russian warplane near Syrian border.” But no, it’s not the revenge of the…

The Lowell Social Media Conference has been held at LTC on the first Saturday of December for the past few years. I had planned to do that again this year, but with Lowell Walks and the recent publication of my new book, Lowell: Images of Modern America , I thought…

Merrimack Press (whose parent company publishes Merrimack Valley Magazine) has teamed with Mill No. 5 have teamed up to host a monthly author reading and book signing series to take place on Thursday evenings at Mill No. 5. The first event will be tomorrow night (Thursday, November 19, 2015) at…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Our friends in Paris are safe: “shocked, sad, anxious, but safe.” But also angry, en colère.   A lot of their children’s friends and school mates were injured; a university friend, 21 years old, is dead. Here at home,…

Earlier this week, a U.S. District Court judge struck down two anti-panhandling ordinances enacted by the city of Worcester. The two ordinances sought to ban “aggressive panhandling” and “panhandling from traffic islands”.   The ostensible reason for both ordinances was to protect public safety but the record (mostly minutes of Worcester…

This entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   Tom Brady, who can execute with finesse virtually any move a quarterback could dream of, apparently can’t make the most basic of all moves, standing up and taking a position against domestic abuse.  Asked in his weekly…