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New City of Lowell Website Congratulations to all involved in the launch of the new city of Lowell website. It has a great look with plenty of pictures. It also has a responsive design which means it automatically rearranges itself to better fit the screen of your tablet or cell…
Read More »Tough to Take a Walk By Mimi Parseghian While reading one of those end of the old year, beginning of the new articles – you know, one of those focusing on finance, career, relationships, health and exercise – I saw an item that I liked: go for a walk outside…
Read More »Some observations from the past year Waterways Vitality Project Kicking off with a big meeting at Luna Theater on January 28, 2016 and led by Fred Faust and Paul Marion with great assistance from the city, UMass Lowell, the National Park, and other partners, the Waterways Vitality Project made huge…
Read More »I’m not insensitive to the condition of the White Working Class today, which as an identity politics category seems accepted by chin-stroking pundits in comparison to Environmentalists, now some kind of No Go Zone for political strategists if you listen to the opinion writers (Don’t pander to those Green people).…
Read More »This post was first heard as a radio essay on the Sunrise program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I have shared this essay with rh.com readers…
Read More »Note from Henri Marchand: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on the former UMass Lowell-produced morning show, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun, and later posted on this blog. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more…
Read More »City Council Round-Up A couple of discussions from last Tuesday’s City Council meeting are worth mentioning. The first was about the planned expansion of Lowell High School. Some preliminary cost estimates that had appeared the week before were so high that a sense of panic seemed to emerge in some…
Read More »One degree. That’s the temperature outside at 6 this morning, but there’s also a steady wind that makes it feel like 16 degrees below zero. School in Lowell has been cancelled because of the cold. The call came in last night at about 8 pm. Scrolling through the “Weather Closings”…
Read More »Western Avenue Access Thursday night I attended a presentation at Western Avenue Studios by members of Lowell’s Division of Planning and Development, led by DPD Director and Assistant City Manager Diane Tradd, to update the public on efforts to connect Western Ave to Dutton and Thorndike Streets. Historically, the roads…
Read More »City Council News There was no council meeting last week. It was cancelled because the preceding Friday, the day the meeting agenda is finalized and shared, was the day following Thanksgiving, and between the holiday and related early closures of city hall, it was unlikely that a productive meeting agenda…
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