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The city of Lowell has announced the location of multiple locations where residents may obtain a sand/salt mixture for their own use. Here’s the list: DPW Complex/Middlesex Street Fire House/Old Ferry Road Former SJA Church parking lot/White Street Varnum School/Sixth Street Robinson School/Beacon Street Reilly School/Douglas Road Muldoon Park/Billerica Street…
Read More »Memory of an Afternoon Hot humid Manhattan afternoon. Broadway’s din is ear splittingly loud. Suddenly, from somewhere on high, as though from heaven, a hugely amplified voice booms that all traffic must now stop. The first hospital ship is in, the voice says, and it’s carrying the first wounded from…
Read More »One of our regular readers sent this link from the Guardian newspaper in the UK—an article about extreme religious fanatics threatening to demonstrate at the funeral of the little girl killed in Arizona. The fanatics don’t like Catholics. Brian Williams had the report on NBC Nightly News, also. Here’s the link.
Read More »Bob Forrant of the UMass Lowell Department of History will be on the Callie Crossley show on WGBH-FM radio on Thursday from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Bob specializes in labor history, technology & history, and the dynamics of regional economic development. He will discuss the effects of technology on jobs,…
Read More »Tony Sampas gives us a nighttime view of the stacks at the Pollard Memorial Library
Read More »On his public safety blog, Rob Mills of the Sun posted a letter urging people to attend the City Council’s Public Safety Subcommittee Meeting tomorrow at 5 p.m. at City Hall. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: . . . I think Lowell is a great community, made up of…
Read More »The Coalition for a Better Acre’s ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Acre High School Apartments (formerly St. Joseph’s High School) at 760 Merrimack Street has been rescheduled due to expected snow to Thursday, January 20, at 2.00 pm. RSVP to Pamela Miller at 978-452-7523 x 800. The 1892 Catholic high school…
Read More »Read about the events of Jan. 4-11, 1861, in the continuing special feature on the Civil War sesquicentennial at the NYTimes. “Firing on the “Star of the West” from the South Carolina battery on Morris Island, Jan. 10, 1861.” (illustration and caption courtesy of NYT)
Read More »Timothy Egan in today’s NYTimes writes about the shootings in Arizona. Read his column here, and get the NYT if you appreciate the writing and opinions.
Read More »On the front of boston.com and on the first page of the Globe’s Metro section today, there’s a story about efforts by the city of Lowell to counteract the gun violence that burst into the public eye with the New Year’s Eve party shootings on Grand Street, the theft of…
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