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At 6:30 am on Monday, it’s 8 degrees and cloudy in Lowell. By this time yesterday, the National Weather Service had already issued a blizzard watch for eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island (since upgraded to a blizzard warning). Just moments ago, Matt Noyes on New England Cable News just said…
Read More »Blizzard Watch From the National Weather Service . . . THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. * LOCATIONS…EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND. * HAZARD TYPES…HEAVY SNOW…STRONG WINDS AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.…
Read More »The following real estate transactions took place in Lowell last week: January 19, 2015 – Monday Martin Luther King Day – registry closed January 20, 2015 – Tuesday 200 Market St Unit 4002 for $95,246. Prior sale in 2005 for $115,000 January 21, 2015 – Wednesday 45 Stevens St Unit…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. To enjoy the performance at the movies and in theater, audience members often have to suspend their connection with reality. So, too, with another form of entertainment, professional football. Is it really possible that Bill Bellichik and Tom Brady,…
Read More »Poet Ezra Pound said, “Poetry [or literature] is news that stays news,” and the doctor-poet of Paterson, New Jersey, William Carlos Williams, believed that the news worthwhile receiving can be found in poems. Following is an excerpt from a long poem that includes Williams’s well known lines about poetry and…
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster graduated from UMass Lowell and gained her MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Groton, Mass. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Comstock Review, and other literary magazines. Her first book “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press in 2011, was selected that…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you’re one of Boston’s 18,000 municipal employees, you just lost some important First Amendment rights. If your paycheck says your employer is the City of Boston, your boss, Mayor Marty Walsh, has contractually barred you from saying…
Read More »Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in…
Read More »Our far-flung contributor Tom Sexton is wintering Down East, tending to his poems and books. He sent this composition about the young women workers back in the day. Tom’s latest book is “A Ladder of Cranes” (University of Alaska Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press). Congratulations to Tom, one…
Read More »At a dignified and classy ceremony at historic Faneuil Hall last evening, Maura Healey took the oath of office as the 55th Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The oath was administered by Ralph Gants, the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who was joined on stage…
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