Annual Kerouac Birthday Bash, March 11

Thanks to Steve Edington of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Inc., for the schedule of the upcoming annual Jack Kerouac Birthday Celebration. The schedule for the 2017 Kerouac Birthday Celebration in Lowell has been finalized. All events take place on Saturday, March 11 (the day before Jack’s birthday): 12:00 Noon: Pollard Memorial…

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What is a Trust Ordinance?

At Tuesday night’s council meeting, a group of Lowell residents petitioned the council to consider adopting a “trust ordinance.” The council referred the matter to the city manager for a report and recommendation which is expected to be back before the council at its next meeting. Today I noticed that…

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From North Tewksbury

Serious, steady snow falling in Tewksbury since 8am. School cancelled, town offices including the library are closed. One of our selectman is also a MassDOT operations guy and he advised me that our area is slated for 12-16″ of snow… it will be a heavy snowfall at times. Earlier neighborhood…

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Winter Storm Niko

Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:50 a.m.: A major winter storm is upon us. Called “Winter Storm Niko” by the National Weather Service, the snow has yet to start falling in my neighborhood of Lowell. Here’s the Winter Storm Warning that has been issued: …WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT…

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Lowell City Council Meeting: February 7, 2017

Lowell High School City Manager Murphy introduces a presentation on the new Lowell High School. He explains that there were ten options but that the state suggests reducing it to four. That happened this morning at the city’s school building committee. He cautions that these are still preliminary and that…

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‘What Will We Do?’

Thanks to Prof. Sue Kim of UMass Lowell for Sharing this Baltimore Sun opinion column about the root of authoritarian control—somebody on the ground has to enforce the authoritarian ruler’s orders. As mentioned in the column, Trump and Bannon did not stop people from entering at the airports. Civil disobedience…

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