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A Note from Jay Mason: Please join me for an event in collaboration with the climate action group 350.org this Saturday, 5/5 at Lowell City Hall at 10:30 am. It would be fantastic if you could make it (see flyer, attached). We need your participation in a photo to be taken in front…
Read More »Social networking is great, but to me its true value is to make it easier for people to come together in-person and get things done. A great example of this comes on Sunday at “Mill City Skill Share” during which a number of individuals have volunteered to share a skill…
Read More »Lura Smith, wrapped up in Mary Sampas, “In Her Own Words,” Whistler House, April 25th 2012. Photo by Tony Sampas.
Read More »The spring tours of historic Lowell Cemetery begin this week on Friday, May 4 at 1 pm and Saturday, May 5 at 10 am. We have completely revised the tours this year. These May tours will all begin at the Lawrence Street entrance and will cover that half of the…
Read More »The city of Lowell held its first in a very long time tax lien auction yesterday in the City Council chamber of Lowell City Hall. City Treasurer Elizabeth Craveiro (shown above) ran the auction which was attended by about 30 people. Ten seats in the front row of the spectator’s…
Read More »Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »It was curiosity more than anything else that drew me to the Whistler House tonight for a retrospective on the work of Mary Boutselis Sampas who wrote for Lowell newspapers, mostly the Sun, for 75 years. I confess to being only an occasional reader of Mary’s columns. Perhaps that’s because…
Read More »At her Lunchtime Lecture at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center this past Monday, Jane Brox distributed a list of “Works Mentioned” in her talk about “Reading, Writing, and Sense of Place.” The books about Sicily are included because Jane is preparing for a trip there in the fall. By…
Read More »Outside of New England, property tax collection is primarily the domain of county government and so at the registry of deeds we frequently get calls from out-of-staters asking for the date of our next tax lien sale. Aside from a way of raising cash from government, dabbling in tax liens…
Read More »Lowell-born poet and former Alaska Poet Laureate Tom Sexton recently provided the inspiring words for acclaimed composer Libby Larsen’s new work “Alaska Spring,” which premiered this week in a performance by the Alaska Chamber Singers. Read Mike Dunham’s article in the Anchorage Daily News here. Composer Libby Larsen and poet…
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