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Car Motorcycle Accident
Here is a candidate citizen journalist video posted by angkorat0505 showing the aftermath of an accident between a motorcycle and car in Lowell. I’m not sure of the location.
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Elderly Art Initiative @ Brush Gallery
This video was originally posted by CopleyMedia. Three artists from the Brush Gallery help senior citizens in nursing homes express themselves independently and with each other by making cards that they can send to family and loved ones.
Read More »Lowell in the news, May 5, 2011
A variety of stories from today were from or related to the city of Lowell: Probation Officer Arraigned: Benjamin Okiwe, who formerly worked in the probation office at Lowell Superior Court, was arraigned in Lowell District Court on charges of larceny over $250 and larceny by scheme arising out of…
Read More »Happy Mother’s Day from John MacDonald
When they come six days before an election, robocalls are annoying; when they come six months prior, they’re entertaining. Such was the case today when I pressed the “play” button on my home answering machine and heard city council candidate John MacDonald wishing all the mothers in hearing distance a…
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by Tony Sampas
Read More »Lowell Cemetery Tours this weekend
The first tours of Lowell Cemetery for this year will take place this weekend: Friday, May 6 at 1 pm Saturday, May 7 at 10 am The tours are free and open to the public and begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance to the cemetery which is off Rogers Street,…
Read More »‘The Big Move: Immigrant Voices from a Mill City’
. “Robert Forrant and Christoph Strobel, under contract to Lowell National Historical Park, defined, researched and created an ethnographic overview of immigrant communities, past and present, in Lowell, Massachusetts. “The Big Move” features a selection of the thirty-five oral histories they compiled for the larger story. Emblematic of Lowell’s diverse population,…
Read More »Smart Buses in Brazil: Curitiba Cures Traffic Ills
From TIME magazine comes an article about the advanced thinking on urban transportation in the ultra-green city of Curitiba, Brazil, which was featured at last June’s Innovative Cities Conference in Lowell. Read the article here, and get TIME if you want more. Web photo by Carlos Cazalis/Corbis courtesy of TIME.com
Read More »Cardinal O’Connell Parkway makeover
From Tony Sampas: Cardinal O’Connell Parkway Makeover. There will be a layer of bricks around the edges, a fence put in and new plantings added. The trees, which were diseased, will be replaced
Read More »The geometry of Lowell’s mills
Tony Sampas finds poetry in the geometry of Lowell’s mills.
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