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Lowell City Council Meeting: June 20, 2017 Vote – Approve a preferred site for Lowell High School. 64 speakers registered to speak. [Resident speakers began at 6:45 pm. They seemed about evenly divided between Cawley and Downtown Option 3. The public input portion of the meeting ended at 10:58]. Mayor…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Kirby Perkins was a Channel 5 reporter with a breadth of interests who especially loved politics and sports. The station’s “High Five” series of profiles has long celebrated high school athletes. But Kirby thought that academic performance…
Read More »This is the twelfth 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: June 18, 1917 – Monday – Red Cross campaign for…
Read More »The City as a Classroom The City as a Classroom. That’s what Pat Mogan used to say. In the late 1990s, I interviewed Dr. Mogan several times to prepare for an LTC program which gave me some first-hand exposure into how he thought about Lowell. Mogan was a lifelong educator,…
Read More »Today is Bunker Hill Day, the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill which was fought on June 17, 1775. The anniversary used to have much more significance than it does now, which I suppose becomes the fate of most such anniversaries over time. That’s unfortunate, because history has so…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Speaker Paul Ryan issued stirring calls to unity following the horrific shooting this week of Republican Congressman Steven Scalise and several others at an early morning softball practice in Virginia. At…
Read More »The topic of this Saturday’s Lowell Walk will be the Underground Railroad and Abolitionism in Lowell. It will be led by UMass Lowell history professor Bob Forrant and UMass Lowell graduate student Emily Yunes. It begins at 10 am at Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street.…
Read More »Here is the statement on the Lowell High siting decision that city council candidate Vesna Nuon recently posted on his website: Statement on Lowell High School Vote By Vesna Nuon As a leader within the Southeast Asian community, as someone who cares deeply about this city, and as a father…
Read More »Councilor Corey Belanger released the following statement yesterday on the Lowell High site decision. He gave me permission to post it here: From City Councilor Corey Belanger: My statement to the citizens of Lowell regarding the location of Lowell High School First and foremost, I wish Councilor Samaras a quick…
Read More »Today I received an email from Greta Wilensky, a 2016 graduate of Lowell High, who I’ve met through her involvement in the FreeVerse! Poetry group. Greta has been active in the Lowell High site selection debate and asked if I would publish on this site something she had written on…
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