Lowell

This past Wednesday night, October 27, 2015, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation hosted a “Capital Conversation” at Middlesex Community College in Lowell. The purpose of this and fifteen other sessions around the Commonwealth is to give the public a say in the development of massDOT’s Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal…

Monday night about 35 veteran Lowell Walks participants gathered at the Pollard Memorial Library to review this past summer’s walks and to plan for the future. We began with a slideshow that included scenes from each of this summer’s walks during which we paused for comments on the high points…

Attached to retaining wall of the Meriimack at the foot of Wilder Street. Photo by Tony Sampas.

Please join Paul Marion and me this Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 10 am at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street in Lowell for a 90-minute walking tour/exploration of the Lord Overpass and vicinity. Here’s some background: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is in the midst of…

Amy Bisson took advantage of yesterday’s mild temperatures to linger at Boarding House Park. She shares her thoughts and the photo below: Yesterday’s spectacular late-October weather inspired a walk later in the evening. The normally cool temperatures of Autumn had been pushed away for a day and the moon was…

Photos by Tony Sampas. Pawtucket Prism is one of Lowell’s public art pieces. It overlooks the Concord River and the Pawtucket Canal and is located alongside the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 6:30 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor community room, I will be hosting a Lowell Walks Retrospective. The purpose of this event is to review the very successful Lowell Walks program of this summer and to begin planning for our 2016 Lowell…