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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today Boston Herald Editorial Page Editor Shelley Cohen has a heartfelt and candid apology for the racist cartoon it published showing President Obama in his bathroom squeezing toothpaste onto his toothbrush while a White House intruder looks on from…
Read More »Congratulations to co-blogger Paul Marion for the very successful launch event for his new book, Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park tonight at the National Park Visitor Center. The VC theater was packed with well-wishers who heard several people whose interviews are prominently featured from…
Read More »Governor Deval Patrick traveled to Lowell (again) yesterday to deliver the $15mil needed for the reconstruction of the Lord Overpass. This infrastructure work is critical to the success of the entire Hamilton Canal District, particularly the Judicial Center. Standing in the open lot at the end of Jackson Street that…
Read More »Presentation by Lowell National Park Superintendent Celeste Bernardo and Paul Marion, author of Mill Power, a new book about the creation and legacy of the Lowell National Park. Each councilor has been presented a copy of the book. Since 1978 Lowell has received $275 million just from the Department of…
Read More »White tips on the close-cropped sloping lawns of the Common this morning before the sun is full up. Trees coming to total change, some of them most of the way there. Saturated crimson crown near the corner of Thorndike and Highland. Big honking candy-corn orange maple blasts color near the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Two trumpets, a horn, a euphonium and a tuba, a brass quintet performing the music for Saturday’s memorial for the late Boston Globe food writer and editor Gail Perrin. The music was loud, bold, brassy and confident: how…
Read More »Governor Patrick Coming to Lowell Governor Deval Patrick will be in Lowell this coming Tuesday, October 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the end of Jackson Street to provide an update on the $15 million state-funded project to re-design the Lord Overpass. Besides easing that traffic bottleneck the Overpass work will…
Read More »The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: October 6, 2014 – Monday 43 Market St for $625,000. Prior sale in 1996 for $84,000 54-60 Queen St for $235,000. Prior sale in 1982 October 7, 2014 – Tuesday 35 Shea St for $195,000. Prior sale in 1997 for…
Read More »From its founding in 1915, the International Institute of Lowell has helped countless immigrants who arrived in Lowell in too many ways to list. Recently, an enormous cache of documentary records dating from the earliest days of the Institute were uncovered. Institute staff and historians from UMass Lowell are now…
Read More »It’s official! Greater Lowell Area Democrats announce that the 2014 Distinguished Democrat will be Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth Steve Grossman. A special meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats was one of Steve’s first stops in his quest to become state party chair in the early 1990s. He later went…
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