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It is still freakin’ cold out there, so I’m posting another Caribbean composition from the vault.—PM . Hibiscus Lane 1. One nimble gecko scaling a mosquito net remains the only lizard we’ve seen in a week on the island whose old name, Hewanorra, means “where the iguana is found.” Purple…
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Tonight I attended the Lowell City Council Transportation Subcommittee meeting on the Lord Overpass project. In attendance were six or seven representatives of VHB, the engineering firm hired by the state to oversee this project. Also in attendance were more than 30 Lowell residents, most representing groups or constituencies with…
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Snowy Roofs On the roof it’s peaceful as can be And there the world below can’t bother me Last week it was ice dams; this week it’s unstable roofs. With the forecasters calling for our current storm to end with heavy, wet snow or even rain, many Lowell residents took…
Read More »Two important Lowell annual events get a change of date and a change of face! The 2015 Lowell Winterfest event is postponed from this coming weekend to the weekend of March 13-14. Too much snow has caused the City Manager and organizers to reschedule since the DPW workers are just…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) will meet this coming Saturday morning February 21, 2015 at 8am in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford . Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday February 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM At the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte. 110…
Read More »The key documents related to the Pawtucket Falls Dam court case, plus a statement from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, are available on the website of the Lowell Heritage Partnership at www.lowellheritagepartnership.org
Read More »Snow permitting—-Here’s an announcement from the Tewksbury Library: The Tewksbury Public Library invites the public to a special program on Wed., Feb. 18, at 7 pm at Tewksbury Public Library, with author Paul Marion, who will discuss his new book, “MILL POWER: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park,”…
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Winter of 2015 A story in yesterday’s Globe captured perfectly the state of affairs in Lowell these days. Here’s part of what the Globe’s Nestor Ramos wrote: On snow-packed side-streets we are facing off in low-speed games of chicken. In snarled traffic circles and icy intersections, we are angling for…
Read More »The shame of the result in the court case about the future of the Pawtucket Falls Dam is the lack of trade-off and balancing of interests in the court’s decision. Enel is already generating green energy and making money on the hydro-power system, otherwise they would not be operating in…
Read More »People are discussing what’s going to happen with transportation improvements on the Thorndike-Dutton streets corridor because of what they will mean for access to and from the Gallagher transit terminal, around South Common, over to Cambodia Town and Western Avenue Studios, through the Hamilton Canal District, and into the core…
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