Lowell

More on Lowell Irish Archaeological Dig and The Acre

Lowell native Dr. Brian C. Mitchell wrote of  the Irish in Lowell 1821-1861 and the Lowell Acre’s “Paddy Camps”. The wire story the other day was just a teaser. A story  in today’s Globe tells the fuller story of the  teaming-up of students from UMass Lowell with researchers from Queen’s University in Belfast for…

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Bob Herbert: A Cause for Concern…for Alarm

Writing this week in the NYT, columnist Bob Herbert decried the educational slippage in the nation. He says we’re collectively, but especially the younger and up-and-coming generations, getting softer intellectually. He cites figures. UMass Lowell, I should say,  is doing its part to buck the trend described in the column. Note the comments, too, which…

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Call for Entries for Public Art at Appleton Mills

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Request for Qualifications, Appleton Mills Art Installation Project    Eligibility: Open to all artists/designers/teams residing in New EnglandProject Description: Trinity Financial invites artists/designers/teams to forward qualifications for an artwork to be permanently installed in the four-story atrium of the Appleton Mills redevelopment, an historic textile mill located…

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Supt Lavallee responds to traffic enforcement article

A few days ago the local newspaper published an article which framed the stepped-up traffic enforcement by the Lowell Police as a revenue raising measure. On the police department’s blog, Superintendent Ken Lavallee responds to the revenue raising implications by documenting the public safety and law enforcement rationale for the…

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