Pailin Park Watching the city council’s discussion Tuesday night of the proposal to change the name of Clemente Park on Middlesex Street to Pailin Park left me confused. That’s probably because many of the councilors themselves seemed confused about what was going on. The matter came before the council as…
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Armand LeMay: Spring Training at 90 By Kendall Wallace LOWELL—-Working at The Sun for nearly 60 years I had the great opportunity to meet nearly every major mover and shaker in Greater Lowell for nearly six decades. I liked most of them, admired some. They were leaders in government, business, banking,…
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Impressions of Lowell: 20 Months and Counting By Emily Ferrara A recent addition to our Literary Lowell roster, Emily Ferrara writes about her initial impressions of Lowell: I once wrote a poem that referenced “the smokestacks of Kerouac’s Lowell”, but it was only a fleeting image in a journey to…
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Recycling On Thursday we posted a report (“Recycling Revisited”) from Judith Durant on the new rules of recycling as presented by Gunther Wellenstein, the city’s Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator at Monday’s Highlands Neighborhood Association meeting. At that meeting, Judith obtained a “Massachusetts Universal Recycling List” handout but was unable to find…
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Here’s a cross-post from my website blog at paulmarion.com which brings back a poem and a local Irish scene from the late 1980s in Lowell. The setting is a pub where boxer Jackie Brady’s fight photographs hung on the walls.– Paul Marion
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Judith Durant, a resident of the Highlands, shared this report on recycling from Monday’s Highlands’ Neighborhood Association meeting: Monday night I attended the Highlands Neighborhood Association monthly meeting, mainly to hear Gunther Wellenstein, Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. Mr. Wellenstein is making the rounds to neighborhood meetings to explain changes that have…
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On The Road Marathon The Second Annual On The Road Marathon was held yesterday at the Pollard Memorial Library and at the Middlesex Community College Academic Arts Center (formerly known as the Rialto Building). Organized by PML’s community librarian Sean Thibodeau and inspired by New Bedford’s marathon reading of Moby…
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Marijuana Sales Start Saturday Next Saturday, March 9, 2019, is scheduled to be the grand opening of the city’s first retail marijuana facility, Patriot Care, at 70 Industrial Ave East, just beyond the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel that is adjacent to the Lowell Connector. At this past Tuesday’s city council…
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Starting last fall, my blogger-colleague Paul Marion began posting updates on local writers and poets who Paul found were doing “interesting and substantial things” with their work. That effort has yielded 22 writer profiles and has reminded us of others who should be included on the roster and introduced us…
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Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on politics and current events this week: The Working City Initiative, a Lowell, collective impact partnership working with all residents and business owners to improve the Acre neighborhood of Lowell, in partnership with Lowell Telemedia Corporation (LTC), Lowell’s local access television, are translating the City…
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