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Sorry to be a bit late with this reminder, but trash pick-up in the city of Lowell this week will be on the normal schedule and not delayed one day despite Monday being the observance of Veterans Day. So put your trash out on the normal schedule if you haven’t…
Read More »Taking advantage of the adhesive-weakening sunlight this weekend, I switched my car’s party affiliation from Democrat to unenrolled. Removing bumper stickers is also easier when the candidates won.
Read More »Join us for a celebration of the life and contributions of one of the great humanitarians of modern Lowell: Peter Stamas. Thursday, Nov 15, 7 pm, Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Worthen St, Lowell. The illustration below is by Janet Lambert-Moore, created as a tribute for Peter’s retirement.
Read More »Veterans Day is a time for remembering. In our families there are so many men and women who served the country – in wartime, in the eras of war and in peacetime. In our own extended family the service ranges from the Civil War, the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Viet…
Read More »Last evening, Lowell Catholic High School held its third Athletic Hall of Fame Induction ceremony. The eight new members of the Hall of Fame are pictured above. Seated from left, John J. Miller – Keith Academy ’51; Richard P. Howe Sr. – Keith Academy ’51; Katelyn Gys – Lowell Catholic,…
Read More »Frank Rich, illustration by Gary Bedard (web image courtesy of garybedard.blogspot.com) Read this New York magazine analysis of the election and national political culture by Frank Rich, former columnist at the NYTimes. His acute observations are refreshing compared to the misleading neutrality of so many mainstream media types. To give my Facebook friends…
Read More »In yesterday’s election, Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren overwhelmingly defeated Republican incumbent Scott Brown by an eight percentage point margin. Statewide, Warren received 1,678,176 (54%) votes to Brown’s 1,449,039 (46%). Warren won Lowell by 5723 votes receiving 19,678 to 13,905. To put this in historical perspective, I compared those statistics to…
Read More »Four candidates came forward to compete to replace Mike Lenzi on the Greater Lowell Technical High School Committee. They were Ray Boutin, Cliff Krieger, Dave Laferriere and Fru Nkimbeng. Each candidate gave a five minute opening statement, answered a handful of questions from the joint committee of the city council…
Read More »On this Day November 5, 1818 – Benjamin F. Butler – a lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts and served as a major general in the Union Army during the Civil War – was…
Read More »A while back I wrote about the perplexing “half-n-half” character of the American electorate. On Morning Joe today the hosts ran through the polls in battleground states and nationwide, showing a virtual tie between the President and his challenger. This, after two years of the Republicans making a case against…
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