Menu
Thank you to City Manager Kevin Murphy, the City Councilors, and City planning staff for moving forward with improvements to the historic South Common. The first phase of the big park’s upgrade will involve a pathway from Thorndike Street to South Street to enhance walking and biking, especially people moving…
Read More »Reports from City Manager: UMass Lowell bus routes thru Pawtucketville. UMass Lowell redirects its buses to avoid traffic. Councilor Samaras suggests this might be causing a problem for the neighborhoods they are driving through. He understands that altering routes to avoid construction might be necessary, but would prefer it not…
Read More »The media commentariat and political insiders seem astounded that Bernie Sanders is attracting vast support among young voters on the Democratic side. Setting aside Bernie’s views on government policies and social values, remember that people in their 20s grew up watching movies that featured a wise old man with special…
Read More »Last week, State Representative Rady Mom held a pre-Iowa Caucus Straw Poll at the home of Lisa Gwiazda and Matt Donahue. Besides indicating their preference for president in 2016, attendees were asked to bring or where their favorite presidential campaign memorabilia. I wasn’t able to attend, by I’m told by…
Read More »
The Next Initiative Thursday’s “Next Initiative” gathering has the potential to be a very important milestone in the city’s evolution. As I wrote in my blog post the next day, the objective is to make better use of the canals and rivers embedded in the city for day-to-day recreation, culture,…
Read More »The following real estate sale took place in Lowell last week: January 25, 2016 – Monday 58 Belle Ave for $257,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $181,000 January 26, 2016 – Tuesday 234 Nesmith St Unit B22 for $155,000. Prior sale in 1973 2 West Tenth St for $290,000. Prior…
Read More »By JIM PETERS Few of us notice the fantastic Eliot Church. I have enclosed a picture of it with this blog. It is dedicated to the Preacher who convinced a Native American god, Passaconaway, to convert to Episcopalianism, if there is such a word. He became an Episcopalian. Now, in…
Read More »On the eve of the Iowa caucuses and with political ads in heavy rotation on Boston TV stations in advance of the New Hampshire primary, here’s a poem with a bit of politics in it from the vault that goes back to 1988. I rarely use rhyme in compositions, but this one…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fox News may have missed Donald Trump. Its viewership was down to 11-13 million viewers, half what they got in the first debate last fall. (The Democrats’ debates have had only eight million viewers, thanks to DNC Chair…
Read More »
Yesterday afternoon I joined 97 others at Mill No. 5’s Luna Theater for a presentation called “Lowell: The Next Initiative.” Organized and conducted by Fred Faust and Paul Marion of the Lowell Heritage Partnership in cooperation with the City of Lowell and with substantial support from George Duncan. Here’s what this project…
Read More »