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Today at the Centralville Veteran’s Park in Lowell, a new monument was unveiled in honor of Normand Brissette of Lowell who died in the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima. A survivor of that blast, Shigeaki Mori, who was 8 at the time of the explosion, devoted his life to uncovering…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The nickname for any Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance is “Deputy Governor.” Jay Gonzalez, A & F Secretary under Governor Deval Patrick, wants to remove the “deputy.” He’s working hard to defeat lifelong activist and minister Bob…
Read More »Here are the remarks I delivered yesterday at the Greater Lowell Veteran’s Council Memorial Day Ceremony at Lowell Memorial Auditorium. I serve as the Council’s historian. One hundred years ago today, the Allied armies in France faced a crisis. The new Soviet government in Russia had signed a peace treaty…
Read More »Memorial Day This morning the Greater Lowell Veterans Council will host its annual Memorial Day Remembrance Service. The first part of the event begins at 10 am at the Ladd and Whitney Monument in front of City Hall. There, the roll of local veterans who have died in the past…
Read More »Here’s Part II of my coverage of Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting. Part I of the coverage was posted last night. HCID Garage Presentation – This garage will be the city’s presence in the Hamilton Canal District and is has to set the standard for what is expected from…
Read More »I am introducing a new writer to our blog readers. He’s not new to writing, but we haven’t featured his work here before. I met Mike McCormick through Tom Sexton, one of our regular far-flung contributors who is a mutual friend. That would be Tom Sexton, the poet and retired…
Read More »Due to a commitment on Tuesday night, I was unable to watch the live telecast of the Lowell City Council meeting. I watched on on-demand video replay tonight and took the following notes, however, the meeting was more than three hours long so I only covered half of it tonight.…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on past week in Lowell politics: By now most of us have read about the disturbance last week in City Council chambers which prevented the Environmental and Flood Issues Sub-Committee from meeting. The aftermath of the public discussion focused solely on the protestors and their…
Read More »This is the 56th 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 for the past two weeks: May 20, 1918 – Monday – Renewal of…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian preview’s this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: The City Council will soon be in its summer schedule of a regular meeting every other week. This week agenda has a number of significant items, including 12 motions from the City Council. MOTION RESPONSES Plain-Tanner St. Corridor Redevelopment Plans: Motion…
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