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Tonight at 7pm I’ll be speaking about Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox which happened 150 years ago today. The event is at the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell (which is also the sponsor and host of the event) in the 2nd floor reference room, right beneath this giant painting…
Read More »About 20 people attended the public meeting organized by the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments this evening at Lowell City Hall on the current Regional Transportation Plan. NMCOG is a regional transportation agency established by the state legislature. Its district includes Lowell and most of the area towns. The Regional…
Read More »Response to quarterly overdose report. Frank Singleton, Health Dept Director, says the epidemic is accelerating. Many users have switched from prescription drugs to heroin because it is so cheap. Also, there is synthetic fentanyl manufactured in Mexico that is very cheap and very deadly. Athletic injuries continue to be a…
Read More »Jim Peters has another installment of his review of events in Lowell in April 1865. Also, remember that the Pollard Memorial Library will present a free program this coming Thursday (April 9) at 7 pm commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The event is free, open to…
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It was a quiet week in Lowell politics. When I posted my notes on Tuesday’s City Council meeting, I mentioned that it had been the “least substantive” meeting of this council term. That’s not meant as a criticism; just an observation. This coming Tuesday’s meeting contains some interesting items. The…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: March 30, 2015 – Monday 12 Rogers St for $95,000. Prior sale in 2000 for $75,000 505 West Meadow Rd for $325,000. Prior sale in 1980 52 Lawrence Dr Unit 206 for $210,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $304,040…
Read More »The KhmerPost USA is a bi-weekly Cambodian language newspaper published in Lowell and distributed in communities with significantly-sized Cambodian communities up and down the East Coast (I sometimes contribute articles to the paper). In this week’s edition, an editorial by Roger Pin, the newspaper’s publisher, on the two Cambodian monuments…
Read More »Another in a series of articles about Lowell at the end of the Civil War, 150 years ago this month: The Confederate Army was far from finished at the beginning of the month of April, 1865. In fact, it was said that they had “some of the finest fighting men…
Read More »“Cool Science” is a program at UMass Lowell in the Graduate School of Education. The program allowed students across the Commonwealth to participate in a project whereby they could teach others about the science of climate change through art. For this competition, David Lustick and Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier – both Associate Professors at…
Read More »I learned this poem from a friend in the mid-1970s. We were part of a bi-weekly writing workshop at the Andover, Mass., public library called The Poets’ Lab. The group stayed together for three or four years, branching out to do readings in most of the towns and cities in…
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