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On a bright yellow day in new-minted May, my phys ed class and I are out for a walk. The class is actually called Mind and Motion, with some idea that the two go together. The small urban high school where I teach has no athletic facilities—no courts, no playing…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Herald photo Every time you renew your driver’s license in Massachusetts you have a chance to say whether you’d donate an organ upon your death. Waiting lists for cadaver transplants can be six to eight years, far…
Read More »MAYOR’S BUSINESS Communication – Selection of City Manager. Motion to select City Manager. Eileen Donoghue selected unanimously. Mayor to meet with Manager-elect Donoghue to negotiate employment terms. Citation – Friends of Council on Aging. Council Mercier introduces the members of the Friends who all receive citations. Motion taken out…
Read More »Notes from Lowell City Council’s interviews with city manager applicants Linda Milsapps, James White and Eileen Donoghue: Linda Millsaps (interview via Skype) Opening Statement: Lifelong public servant and manager of excellent public employees. Undergrad from American University and Masters from Harvard Kennedy School, then Ph.D. from West Virginia. Focused on…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting. This Tuesday’s City Council meeting should be an historical one. All public information indicates that State Senator Eileen Donoghue will be elected as the 17th Lowell City Manager and the first woman to hold that position. In addition to this most significant…
Read More »City Manager Selection This Tuesday night the city council will meet at 5 pm to interview the three finalists for the position of Lowell City Manager. The three applicants are State Senator Eileen Donoghue, MIT assistant dean James White of Marshfield, and Linda Millsaps, the director of a North Carolina…
Read More »A great new exhibit on all the logos, signs, seals and other images using for branding Lowell through the years will open tomorrow at the Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street from 3 to 5 pm. Digital previews of the exhibit reveal that it will present a lesson in…
Read More »This is the 49th weekly 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 this week: March 18, 1918 – Monday – Massachusetts troops in action…
Read More »Asst CM Conor Baldwin introduces James Doneson, new leader of Department of Public Works. Mayor Samaras next introduces the three finalists for the position of city manager: Eileen Donoghue of Lowell; Linda Milsap of North Carolina; and James White of Marshfield, Mass. Councilors set 5pm next Tuesday night interviewing…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting. Due to the cancellation of last week’s meeting, this week’s agenda of the Lowell City Council incorporates new items with those of last week. The first order of business is the report from the City’s CPA firm, Powers & Sullivan. The FY…
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