Lowell

Traffic Subcommittee meeting: Lord Overpass

Main takeaway – Public input session on Lord Overpass project on Monday, November 16, 2015 at 6 pm at the Lowell Senior Center. The Lowell City Council traffic subcommittee met last evening for an update on the Lord Overpass renovation project. A greater than usual volume of traffic due to…

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Boott Mills, Full Moon

Amy Bisson sent some photos and commentary last week that I’m just now getting around to posting. Thanks, Amy! Last night (September 28), more than a few people were out watching the lunar eclipse unfold. More than a few times a jet or plane raced across the sky as the full…

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Lowell Week in Review: October 4, 2015

Lord Overpass The City Council’s Transportation Subcommittee meets this Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at 5:30 pm at the City Council chambers of Lowell City Hall to discuss the Lord Overpass Renovation Project. The committee chair is Councilor Milinazzo and the members are Councilors Martin and Leahy. At a previous meeting…

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Bus Stop, French Street

Where I grew up, in the cornfields of Ohio, most of us took a bus to school because we lived too far from school to walk. One or more of my siblings always waited with those of us from the neighborhood who were gathered at the bus stop waiting for…

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America’s First Architect ~ H. H. Richardson

The beautiful pair of buildings – the City Hall and the Pollard Memorial Library – that anchor the intersect of Merrimack Street/Dutton Streets/Monument Square and up to Cardinal O’Connell Parkway represent a monumental style of architecture known as Richardsonian Romanesque. These buildings are the hub of much important civic and…

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Honors for Kerouac

Last night, students from the UMass Lowell Honors College First-Year Seminar in all things Lowell went on the road in Kerouac’s Lowell. I teach one section of the 22 sections of this required course in the Honors College. Nearly 400 students are learning about Lowell in a directed way this…

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