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A friend on a lunch break captured the above photo of today’s fire at a Lowell Housing Authority apartment complex at the Bishop Markham complex. The site of the fire faced the South Common and was in the vicinity of the South and Summer Street intersection. A large amount of…
Read More »Catie Bisson was a 2008 graduate of Lowell High School who succumbed to a chronic heart ailment in 2010 while a sophomore at Bridgewater State College. I got to know Catie a bit while she was at Lowell High: She and my son Andrew were both in the band and…
Read More »PLEASE READ this very important column on the consequences of income inequality. It’s by John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. The fiscal cliff is approaching fast. Everyone knows…
Read More »I had to go into Boston during the day yesterday and took my preferred means of transport, the MBTA commuter rail from the Gallagher Terminal to North Station. While I’ve made that journey many times, this was the first chance I had to use the new MBTA “m Ticket” cell…
Read More »This has nothing to do with Lowell other than that we are consumers of the pop culture like everyone else. One of my favorite films of recent years is “The International” (2009), starring Clive Owen as Interpol investigator Louis Salinger and Naomi Watts as New York City Assistant District Attorney Eleanor…
Read More »Lawyers will give their closing arguments today in Suffolk Superior Court in the case of the Commonwealth v Tim Cahill. The former state treasurer is charged with using state funds to run TV ads intended to boost his 2010 campaign for governor. While it may have been wrong to pay…
Read More »From the office of Lowell Mayor Patrick O. Murphy: Starting on Monday December 3, every pound of non-perishable food you bring to the Mayor’s Office (Room 50 on the 2ndFloor of City Hall) will earn you a raffle ticket entering you into a drawing for two tickets to the New…
Read More »Last evening I joined more than 30 others at the LRTA Maintenance Facility conference room at 100 Hale Street to hear the latest thinking from the city’s Planning Department and the various urban planners (Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge) and EPA officials who have been working on a master plan for…
Read More »New England Patriots wide receiver Brandon Lloyd visited Lowell High School to speak with students about the importance of financial planning. His visit was sponsored by National Financial Educators Council, Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union and Yahoo, which sent a camera crew to film his visit (it should be on the…
Read More »Paul posted this video from the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council on Facebook earlier today. I hadn’t seen the video, which was uploaded to YouTube by the Council back in September: [youtube]NURt5MO2s0c[/youtube]
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