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My annual review of Lowell political events for this past year: The nine victors in the bruising 2017 Lowell City Council race gathered at City Hall on Tuesday, January 2, 2018, take the oath of office and to elect a mayor. Bill Samaras won that contest with five votes to…
Read More »Lowell resident Bobby Tugbiyele shared the following letter he sent to Mayor Samaras and others: Dear Mayor Samaras, Members of the LPS Personnel Subcommittee, and Acting Superintendent Durkin: I and many community members, especially those who attended the early April School Committee session, ( Read- http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_31782843/lowell-school-board-hears-calls-hiring-diversity ) respectfully and earnestly…
Read More »Jay Atkinson: Writer in Motion When I asked Jay Atkinson what he’s been up to this year, he gave me a rich summary that included a song-bite: “Take what you need and leave the rest . . .” Jay lives in Methuen, Mass., and Lowell has been one of his…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire is one of our best portals to reliable news sources, with postings throughout the day. One of today’s posts reflects my own Trump/news fatigue, and Goddard’s short-term solution to it. In a note to his…
Read More »Meg Smith: Writer in Full Stride Meg Smith is in full stride as a writer. She says 2018 has been “a full and blessed” year. She published her book This Scarlet Dancing (Emu Press) and placed poems and short fiction in several literary magazines and journals, including Café Review, The Literary Hatchet, Strange…
Read More »Picking up the thread for our series of updates on writers linked to Lowell and the region. David Daniel: New Books, Flash Fiction I can’t say I discovered David Daniel in the Samuel de Champlain sense, but I found out about him through his novels, particularly The Heaven Stone (1994)…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Fortune The menacing lion-like creature shook his orange mane, growled and chased me down the hill leading to the road where our house is. I sat bolt upright in bed, realizing it was just a bad dream…
Read More »We’ve been posting my brief Christmas essay long enough that it has become a tradition on the blog, along with Henri Marchand’s essay about making fruitcake for the holidays. The piles and bags of oranges are prominent in the produce sections of local groceries and supermarkets this month. If you…
Read More »“A Cataclysm for our District” Towards the end of Wednesday night’s review of the fiscal audit of the Lowell School Department, Connie Martin, the longest-serving current member of the Lowell School Committee said about the Lowell School Department’s fiscal mess, “This has been a cataclysm for our district.” Cataclysm is…
Read More »Another two weeks worth of headlines from 100 years ago. As the end of the war draws near, the number of casualties increase while the Spanish Flu brings death to Lowell. October 14, 1918 – Monday – Wilson is to act quickly in reply to Germany. Expected to demand unconditional…
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