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Coburn Hall from South Campus Parking Garage
Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »South Common, June 1944
An image from Lowell High School Field Day in June 1944 contributed by Eleanor Sullivan at a Mass. Memories Road Show event at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum of Lowell National Historical Park. The photo was published by the University Archives and Special Collections at UMass Boston, and can be…
Read More »Along Broadway
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Read More »City Council Meeting: April 22, 2014
Councilors Samaras and Leahy absent. Public Safety Subcommittee Report by Chair of Committee, Councilor Rourke. Reviewed three motions. First regarding use of Narcan by Lowell first responders. Fire department is six weeks away from its use. Fire union supports the effort which will also include “epi” pens. Next motions was…
Read More »Maura Healey for Attorney General coming to Lowell
Maura Healey, a candidate for Attorney General in this year’s state election, will be in Lowell this Wednesday night (April 23) for a Meet and Greet event at the Blue Shamrock, 105 Market Street, from 5:30pm to 7pm. The event is free and gives voters in Lowell and Greater Lowell…
Read More »South Common Improvement Plan
April 21, 2014
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell, Neighborhoods, City Council
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I walked our dog on the South Common this morning. The grass had turned green seemingly overnight, a refreshing sight after the long winter. Fat-chested robins in their red bibs poked at the defrosted ground on the sports field. In the high fir trees invisible birds called and sang brightly.…
Read More »If Lowell High moves, what’s to take its place?
With trips to Washington and Charleston, South Carolina during the past two weeks, I’ve temporarily fallen out of the rhythm of Lowell politics. In my absence, it seems a big debate has broken out over a proposal to build a new Lowell High School on the South Common. My co-writer…
Read More »Candidates visit GLAD meeting
The Greater Lowell Area Democrats held their monthly meeting at the Chelmsford Radisson yesterday morning and heard from a number of candidates who will be on the ballot for the September 9, 2014 Democratic primary. Here’s who was there and what they had to say: Martha Coakley, candidate for Governor…
Read More »Dennis Lehane Making Sense
“As a country, we used to respect knowledge that was earned over knowledge that was cherry picked.” —Dennis Lehane, Boston Globe,4/1/9/14 In today’s Boston Globe, author Dennis Lehane thinks aloud about the Boston Marathon Bombing, knowledge vs. opinion, intellectual relativism, bad narratives, and his belief that good ideas will prevail.…
Read More »April 19, 1861: Lowell soldiers killed in Baltimore
On a small patch of grass wedged between two busy streets in front of Lowell City Hall sits a twenty-five foot high granite obelisk. Few passersby know that this monument commemorates nineteen year old Luther Ladd and twenty year old Addison Whitney, two Lowell mill workers who, along with Sumner…
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