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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The following are suggestions from when I wasn’t fleeing the daily news into real fiction, as noted in my previous blog. I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey behind the Lines of Jihad, a memoir by Washington Post…
Read More »After a short break, I’m resuming my Lowell in World War One posts. This is the 62nd installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago:…
Read More »New Suburbanism This past Wednesday I attended a Middlesex 3 Coalition conference called “Real Estate 2020: Building for the Future.” Middlesex 3 is a coalition of government and private sector stake holders located in nine towns located along Route 3. These communities are, from north to south, Tyngsborough, Westford, Chelmsford,…
Read More »This is cross-posted from my personal blog at paulmarion.com. I’m happy to see the landscape and public art improvements at Lucy Larcom Park, where artist Ellen Rothenberg in her artwork titled Industry, Not Servitude made permanent or at least pretty indestructible selected words, lines, and phrases by women writers of…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian reviews this week in Lowell politics: Lowell Round-Up: August 3, 2018 By Mimi Parseghian With the City taking a break to celebrate and host the Folk Festival, it was relatively quiet week for local politics. But that was not the case on Beacon Hill, where the legislature finally…
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival It’s hard to believe that this is the Folk Festival’s 32nd year in Lowell. Events Friday night and all day yesterday provide strong evidence that the Festival keeps getting better. The Friday night parade included delegations representing more than two dozen nationalities who have made Lowell their…
Read More »Long-time Lowell political observer Kendall Wallace shares his thoughts on the upcoming Democratic Primary in the 3rd Congressional District. Congressional Race Analysis By Kendall Wallace The crowded primary field for the Democratic Party nomination for congress in the Third Congressional District has some pretty talented people who would like to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every year at this time I share books that that may interest my readers. What I have discovered in year two of the Trump administration is how I often have I sought escape into fiction, though it is…
Read More »Due to my ongoing Register of Deeds re-election campaign, I have been unable to cover the weekly Lowell City Council meetings as before. However, Mimi Parseghian has stepped up and shared her notes from this Tuesday’s council meeting. Here’s what Mimi wrote: Tuesday night’s City Council meeting ended at 10:00…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council agenda continues the summer tradition; long in items and deep in content. There are also quite a few public hearings. GENERAL PUBLIC HEARING Ordinance: Amend Chapter 272 by establishing new Article X, entitled Stormwater Management. Ordinance: Amend…
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