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I am still pitch hitting for Dick! The City Council is not meeting this week. It has become standard practice to cancel the Spring School Vacation Week meeting. Last week’s meeting featured major information on construction projects throughout the City There was an update on the City’s Construction Projects. The…
Read More »Pinch Hitting for Dick! It has now been a month since the recreational marijuana store opened up in Lowell. The facility, located on Industrial Avenue, is around the corner from where I live. I drive by it going and coming from my place of residence daily. Besides the line of…
Read More »When Dick, Marie, and I put together our ten-year anthology of writing and photos from the blog, History As It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017, Loom Press), we made sure to include poems because they had been a prominent feature on the blog for many years. Their appearance was…
Read More »Clemente Park update The proposal to change the name of the city park on Middlesex Street from Roberto Clemente Park to Pailin Park appeared to be heading for a serious confrontation at Wednesday’s Board of Parks meeting but the board wisely tabled the proposal to allow proponents and opponents of…
Read More »Sovanna Pouv, the executive director of the Cambodian Mutual Assistant Association and a resident of the Highlands composed the following statement for last night’s Board of Parks meeting on the proposal to change the name of Clemente Park to Pailin Park. However, the Board of Parks tabled the proposal before…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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