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Notes from tonight’s (relatively uneventful) Lowell City Council meeting. ROLL CALL MAYOR’S BUSINESS Designation – Lowell as a National Wildlife Refuge. 80% of Americans live in cities but have little contact with wildlife refuges. This grant program helps highlight work done in cities (especially here by Lowell Parks and Conservation…
Read More »Last week I attended a presentation by UMass Lowell professor (retired) John Wooding in which he provided an update on his quest to make Lowell a UNESCO City of Learning. That designation is applied to cities around the world – there are 140 so far, but none in the U.S.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congressional leadership of the Democratic Party is going to change. It’s not a question of whether but how and when. Despite the best efforts of North Shore Congressman Seth Moulton, who is spearheading the movement to depose former…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council meeting has a lengthy agenda mainly due to last’s week meeting cancellation. PUBLIC HEARINGS There are three items that require a public hearing prior to a vote. Vote to Adopt the Minimum Residential Factor for FY 2019.…
Read More »David Moloney of Lowell: Forthcoming Novel, High Praise Bloomsbury Publishing will release David Moloney’s first novel, Barker House, in February 2020. He’s a Lowell resident and graduate of UMass Lowell and Southern New Hampshire University (master’s degree in creative writing). David’s novel has earned outstanding advance notices from well-known writers.…
Read More »Instead of “Lowell Week in Review” today’s post could be more accurately called “Lowell City Council in Review.” Last week I wrote about the upcoming 2019 City Election by reviewing the results of the 2017 election and the career electoral accomplishments of the current city councilors. Today I begin a…
Read More »Dave Robinson: Writer-in-Residence, Portugal Checking in with writer, poet, and multifarious arts guy Dave Robinson, we learned that he’s back from a Writer-in-Residence gig at Cultívamos Cultura in São Luis, Portugal. He was at the arts center in a dual role with his wife and creative partner, Anna Isaak-Ross, an…
Read More »The Lowell Way By Kendall Wallace Lowell—-My grandparents came to Lowell from Prince Edward Island, Canada more than 100 years ago. Since that time, five generations of our family have called Lowell home. Earlier this year. My family was the last of the clan to leave Lowell. My wife and…
Read More »Tom Sexton sent us a new poem from his outpost on the edge of northeast Maine. He and his wife Sharyn split their time between Maine and Alaska. Our readers will recognize Tom’s name from past contributions to this blog. He drops back in to Lowell when he’s on the…
Read More »Helena Minton: Recent Book, New Poems, & Frost Foundation Work I’ve known Helena Minton since the 1980s, when she was publishing with Alice James Books, a collective effort to bring out the best new poetry, particularly by women writers. Her book The Canal Bed (1985) includes a long poem centered…
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