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Web photo courtesy of Matthew Shepard Foundation He Continues to Make a Difference: The Story of Matthew Shepard All are welcome to attend this program which uses poetry, photographs, and creative visualization to explore the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world .Monday, May 19, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.,…
Read More »This week’s City Council agenda features a major vote on the high school, the report on the repair of the “damage” at Shedd Park caused by a bicycle race and what has now become a standard item, “City Council – Executive Session: “Regarding Matter Of Litigation, Namely Huot Et Al.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I emerge from three weeks of flu, bronchitis and related maladies on World Press Freedom Day and want to take more than a moment to hail the work of so many journalists who put themselves on the line…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of baseballrulesacademy.com I’ve been watching baseball since I was old enough to follow the action. That’s more than 60 years. I played baseball and softball until I was about 40 years old. Now I’m like the person in the TV ad, a “professional baseball watcher.” I admit…
Read More »The spring 2019 tours of Lowell Cemetery, originally scheduled for this Friday, May 3, at 1pm and this Saturday, May 4, at 10am, have been rescheduled. The new dates are: Friday, June 14, 2019 at 1pm Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 10am Both tours begin at the Lawrence Street gate…
Read More »On the last day of National Poetry Month, we have a poem by writer and painter Chath pierSath who lived in Lowell many years and earned a master’s degree in community social psychology from UMass Lowell. He’s based on a vegetable-and-fruit farm in Bolton now and regularly travels to Cambodia…
Read More »This week’s City Council agenda will begin with 4 Recognitions under the Mayor’s Business. The first is Lowell Veteran’s Commission Veteran of the Month; the second is Massachusetts Stat e Treasurer’s Office: SoarMA Program. SoarMA is a two-year pilot program, that offers seventh grade students seed-funded savings accounts. This initiative…
Read More »A special poem for National Poetry Month. Thomas Fitzsimmons (1926-2017) was born in Lowell and attended Lowell High School (he left to join the Merchant Marine but later earned a diploma elsewhere). Here’s a bit about his life from his obituary in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper: “He is…
Read More »Geoffrey Douglas, long time staff writer and sometime adjunct professor at UMass Lowell, has a new book forthcoming from Globe Pequot Press. A compilation of many of his Yankee magazine stories written over more than 20 years, the book has one selection of special Lowell interest and which I want…
Read More »Preview of tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting by Mimi Parseghian. City Council is back in session this week and so is the repetitive agenda item of Executive Session to discuss “Matter of litigation, namely Huot et al. vs City of Lowell, public discussion of which could have a detrimental…
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