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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…
Read More »Franco-American School Just a few weeks ago, several hundred people in evening wear visited the Franco-American School at 357 Pawtucket Street for the Coalition for a Better Acre’s big annual fund raiser. They got to see the building as it was. Now, the building has been transformed into a construction…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “I’m a capitalist to my bones,” Senator Elizabeth Warren this week told a New England Council audience of business leaders, adding, “We have to make markets strong so everyone can do better.” Addressing an arcane and often dry…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian reviews this week in Lowell politics: Lowell Round-Up: July 20, 2018 By Mimi Parseghian Wednesday night’s School Committee meeting resulted in the Lowell School Superintendent, Salah Khelfaoui, being put on administrative leave. That action was a result of three motions co-introduced by School Committee members Jackie Doherty and…
Read More »Not exactly a scoop, but a funny coincidence at least. Surprise of the day: on Boston.com the Boston Globe posted a preview of this coming Sunday’s Globe Magazine photo-essay and article by Peter Simon about two communes in Vermont that rose up in the late 1960s and lasted about two…
Read More »Raymond Mungo is a writer whose books should be more familiar than they are to readers in the Merrimack Valley. He has lived in Southern California for many years, but he was born in Lawrence and graduated from Boston University, where he gained national attention as the politically radical editor…
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