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Yesterday morning I was a guest on the local cable TV show, City Life, along with Marie Sweeney and Casey Crane. That will be a name familiar to anyone who lived in Lowell in the 1990s, because Casey (also known as Elenore Rinaldi) was the co-host of a morning talk…
Read More »Today in the Head Start classroom located at Billerica High School, Congressman John Tierney (MA-6) captures the kids attention as reads to them. (M. Sweeney photo) The Community Teamwork take on this morning’s visit by Congressman Tierney as noted on the organization’s website. Community Teamwork, Inc. It was a sad…
Read More »Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, second from right, has been a leader in challenging top officers in the military to take action to reduce the number of sexual assaults on women in the army, navy, marines, and air force. Today’s NYTimes includes an article about how women in Congress are demanding that…
Read More »Composer and singer Carole King visited Lowell last weekend to express her support for Congressman Ed Markey in his campaign to win election to the US Senate from Massachusetts. She says she is especially grateful for his support of public policy that addresses the impact of global warming. I was…
Read More »More than 150 Greater Lowell supporters of Ed Markey’s campaign for US Senate gathered today at Hookslide Kelly’s in downtown Lowell for what must be considered one of the most memorable political events in recent city history. Joining Markey on stage and speaking to the crowd were US Senator Elizabeth…
Read More »Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and State Senator Eileen Donoghue will join US Senate candidate Ed Markey for a rally in Lowell tomorrow (Saturday, June 1) at 4pm at Hookslide Kelly’s at 19 Merrimack Street. With the election on June 25, there are only a couple of weeks to…
Read More »The following Lowell property sales were recorded this week. This and much additional information are freely available on the website of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds (www.lowelldeeds.com): Tuesday, May 28, 2013 34 Newhall St Unit 107 for $106,500 50 Wightman St for $300,000 52 Lawrence Dr, Unit M611 for…
Read More »Today at 1 pm and tomorrow at 10 am (that’s Friday and Saturday), we’ll have our last two spring 2013 tours of Lowell Cemetery. Back on Friday, May 17 we had 75 people attend and the next day there were more than 90, so the tours remain popular. This weekend’s…
Read More »Following is an excerpt from my manuscript for the book “Mill Power: Reclaiming Lowell’s Place and Story,” which I wrote for the National Park Service in 2011-12. The book covers the years 1966 to 2012, documenting the origin and impact of the national park in Lowell in the context of…
Read More »I spent most of the 1960s as a preteen living at 505 Wilder Street on a block that had the Morey School at one end (corner of Pine and Wilder) and Lavoie’s Dairy at the other (corner of Shaw and Wilder). The dairy was a fascinating place. Each morning, its…
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