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Market Basket With no council meeting this week, the Market Basket saga continues to be the biggest news around. As Kendall Wallace wrote in his Saturday Chat yesterday (no link yet), there should be at least one fascinating book to come out of this. The DeMoulas family feud has been…
Read More »July 28, 2014 – Monday 39 Harland Ave for $325,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $330,000 133 Havilah St for $520,000. Prior sale in 1972 July 29, 2014 – Tuesday 1 Canal Place Unit 501 for $205,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $197,000 18 Gilmore St Unit 18A for $120,000.…
Read More »Shirley Leung of the Boston Globe went to The Olympia for lunch to learn what the locals are saying about the Demoulas-Market Basket Affair. Read her column here, and get the Globe if you want more of this kind of newspapering.
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Congratulations and thanks to all involved for another successful Lowell Folk Festival. I attended on both Saturday and Sunday with vastly different experiences but that was because of the heavy rain that fell midday on Sunday. Hopefully the financial impact was less severe than the weather. I am sorry I…
Read More »In the rh.com archives, I found another post I had written about Harry de Metropolis in 2008. Time flies. Some of the information repeats what I have in my new post, but there is enough different material that I thought I’d post it as a companion piece to give a…
Read More »One of the lost poets of Lowell is Harry de Metropolis, born Sept. 22, 1913, in Lowell. He graduated from Lowell High School (1931) and West Point (1939), and served in the European and Pacific theaters in World War II. In 1952, the William-Frederick Press of N.Y. published a collection…
Read More »My staples are still holding, so looking for fresh food today, I started locally at the East Street Farm Stand (Farmer Dave’s) in Tewksbury… my cache was a few small peaches, tomatoes, butter beans, a pepper, 6 ears of corn… the stand was busy and had just opened for the…
Read More »Thanks to Tony Sampas for the following photos:
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Lowell Folk Festival It’s the last weekend in July so the Lowell Folk Festival is upon us. Walking around downtown yesterday afternoon was a lot of fun. It wasn’t the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen but it was large enough to prove that the Festival continues to be very popular. …
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