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Lowell Week in Review: October 23, 2016
Early Voting Early voting for the November 8, 2016 presidential election starts tomorrow. This is the first year that early voting has been allowed in Massachusetts unless you fit the narrow requirements to vote by absentee ballot. The early voting period extends from tomorrow (October 24) to the Friday before…
Read More »Farewell, Tom Mofford, Teacher & Poet
Rick Sherburne, Julie Mofford, and Tom Mofford (photo courtesy of Rick Sherburne on Facebook) We lost a poet today, Tom Mofford, husband of our occasional contributor Julie Mofford, both of them long-time friends of mine. Tom passed away this morning, I learned from Julie’s message to our mutual friend Rick…
Read More »The Kerouac Room at the Center for Lowell History
Lowell Sustainability Summit tomorrow
The Lowell Sustainability Council’s 2nd Sustainability Summit will be held tomorrow (Saturday, October 22, 2016) from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm at Enterprise Bank’s Community Room, 18 Palmer Street, 2nd floor (opposite The Coffee Mill). The free event is open to the public. The Summit will bring together the Lowell Department…
Read More »Justice David Souter Warns About a Political ‘Strong Man’
MSNBC’s journalist Rachel Maddow presented this clip of former Supreme Court Justice David Souter warning about the real peril to our democracy, the arrival on scene of a “strong man” who will be given control of our government. He said this will only happen as a result of “civic ignorance.”…
Read More »Running Down a Dream: Cohasset by the Sea Road Race, April 1978
Lowell has a great tradition of running and road races that is carried on today by Greater Lowell Road Runners. Last Sunday’s Baystate Marathon, one of the preeminent qualifying races for the Boston Marathon, is strong evidence of Lowell’s continued status as a center of running in New England. One…
Read More »Northern Middlesex Council of Governments annual meeting
The Northern Middlesex Council of Governments (NMCOG) had its 53rd Annual Meeting last night at Four Oaks Country Club in Dracut. The guest speaker was State Senator Eileen Donoghue. Her topic was economic development. Donoghue began by saying the replacement of the Rourke Bridge “is a priority for the Lowell…
Read More »New Meets Old
Why more kids should have access to charter schools by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Neighborhood House Charter School in the Dorchester section of Boston is a prime example of why more children should have access to charter school education. That’s the goal of Question 2 on the November ballot, allowing the…
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