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Lowell Politics: Sept 22, 2024

There was no Lowell City Council meeting this past week, so I’ll pick up where I left off in my last newsletter and share some more thoughts on elections and mail-in voting. In the aftermath of the September 3, 2024, primary election, people asked me, “Were you surprised by the…

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Living Madly: Harvest Home

Living Madly: Harvest Home By Emilie-Noelle Provost *This essay is dedicated to my sister Morgan who loves fairs so much she got married on the Ferris wheel at the Franklin Country Fair in Greenfield. **** When I was very young, my family used to go to the Marshfield Fair every…

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Review of “Portraits Along the Way”

Portraits Along the Way: 1976-2024 by Paul Marion. Reviewed by Richard Howe For more than a dozen years I’ve been leading tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. If it’s not raining, we average 80 to 100 people on each tour with many return visitors. Although Lowell Cemetery is a beautiful place,…

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Lowell Politics: Sept 15, 2024

The Lowell City Council met last Tuesday. The end of the agenda showed an executive session “to consider and discuss ongoing negotiations relative to Lupoli Companies LLC, public discussion of which could have a detrimental effect on the city’s position.” This would be the second executive session within a month…

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Canine ER Visit

On the Sunday night of Labor Day weekend, we found ourselves in a veterinary emergency room with Zoe, our 3-year-old labradoodle. All is well but the circumstances of our visit are worth sharing, so consider this a public service announcement. Here’s what happened: Sunday, September 1, 2024, was a beautiful…

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Preparing for a pandemic (2009)

Preparing for a Pandemic By Richard Howe (on September 3, 2009) For many years at the registry of deeds I wrote daily blog entries on real estate matters. But doing that daily is a difficult chore so often I would write about other things, especially world events that somehow affected…

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