Pollard Memorial Library hosted the 4th annual Elinor Lipman Award for Writing on Oct. 30, 2025, announcing that UMass Lowell student Julia Magee won the award including a $1000 prize for a work of short fiction. From Westford, Mass., Julia is an English major at UML studying creative writing this…
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FUTURE PROSPECTS By Terry Downes High school athletes fight to play While pros will only play for pay; The question then is rendered clear: Do we the game, or gold revere? With players’ salaries on the rise The owners scramble to devise Ways to raise the money needed Then to…
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The Tiger Stephen O’Connor Come here and listen to me, now. I’ll tell you, but don’t go blabbing it all over the place. It’s you and me. That’s it. Okay, I have a tiger, or to paraphrase John Lennon on the Norwegian girl, he has me. You can’t really own…
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Lowell voters ousted two incumbent city councilors in yesterday’s election. In District 4, Sean McDonough defeated incumbent Wayne Jenness, and in District 7, Sidney Liang defeated incumbent Paul Ratha Yem. With incumbent Corey Belanger having lost in the preliminary election in District 3, there will be three new city councilors…
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Down…in history. (PIP #85) By Louise Peloquin Another Lowell landmark is turned into rubble. Yet, within the heap of red brick, traces of the countless Franco-Americans ushered into eternity at 201 Pawtucket Street seem to rise from the dusty ruins. The most famous of these Francos was Jack Kerouac. Archambault…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life” by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a large but rich memoir of an extraordinary career in journalism. Perhaps you remember Kristof’s coverage of the slaughter in Darfur, the bloody civil war and mass…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück by Lynne Olsen is an extraordinary telling of a little-told Nazi horror story, barely hinted at by the subtitle, “How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp.” This goes beyond any book…
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The Lowell city election is this Tuesday with the polls open from 7 am until 8 pm. The city’s Election and Census Office website has a “find your polling place” app along with other election-related information. I don’t have any predictions about the outcome, but I’m especially interested in two…
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College and University Days By Leo Racicot I loved high school French and Latin so much, I decided they would be my major and minor in college. I applied to three area colleges with those disciplines: Lowell State Teachers College here in the city, Saint Anselm’s in Manchester, New Hampshire…
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This is the third of our Lowell Stories series, which we hope to make a regular feature on this website. If you have a story to share, get in touch and we’ll help preserve it in print. We’ll even write it for you if that would help. Richard Howe Lowell…
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