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This is the 46th 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: February 25, 1918 – Monday – Bolshevik surrender fails to…
Read More »Thanks to Mimi Parseghian for covering last night’s Lowell City Council meeting while I attended the screening and discussion of the Citizen Jane: Battle for the City film. Here’s Mimi’s report: Roll Call: Eight (8) Present, David Conway is still absent due to illness. Recognition of Lowell High School Boys…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every day, as I either skirt around or clunk into and out of potholes, I’m reminded of our crumbling infrastructure and of the lame political promises of the Trump administration to fix our roads, bridges, airports, water and…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting: In spite of a two week break, the Lowell City Council agenda is relatively light. But I have learned that the length of the City Council Agenda does not have a direct correlation to the duration of the meeting nor to the…
Read More »Pollard Memorial Library update The long awaited re-opening of the Pollard Memorial Library will HOPEFULLY take place this Wednesday. Closed since a burst pipe flooded the place during an early January freeze, the damage has been repaired. The library is the hub of literary, cultural and educational events for people…
Read More »This is the 45th 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: February 18, 1918 – Monday – Many killed in fighting…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The images will last forever, I am certain. The bustling narrow streets of the Old Quarter area of Hanoi, the water puppet show dating back to the 10th century, the 11th century Temple of Literature honoring scholars and men…
Read More »Selecting a City Manager Hiring a new city manager for Lowell is a big deal. Consequently, today’s post will deal exclusively with how that process was conducted the last time a city manager was hired, with some Lowell political history tossed in for context. City Manager Kevin Murphy’s announcement this…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Ronald S. Haeberle//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) So many places drew us away from the breathtaking landscape, the mouth-watering cuisine, and inviting art galleries and toward the American experience in Vietnam. Toward places familiar from books and contemporaneous television…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every time I have written about gun violence and mass shootings, one reader or another (you know who you are) will charge me with being a bleeding heart liberal. So, let’s take the emotion out of the equation. …
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