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In this year’s election, I’m supporting Maura Healey for the office of Attorney General of Massachusetts. Working at the Attorney Generals office from 2007 until the recent start of this campaign, Maura was responsible for two very important divisions in the AG’s office – Public Protection and Business & Labor.…
Read More »Here’s a letter from former Mayor Patrick Murphy to the current members of the city council. The subject is his mayoral portrait. He gave me permission to post the letter here. Councilors, I understand that you will consider tonight Councilor Mercier’s request that the “City Council Rules SC establish guidelines…
Read More »This a double cross-post linking a “trip down memory lane” as recalled by our friend Dave McKeon at LowellIrish and my personal spin in a post on the Lowell Historical Society site. The subject is simple – the famous Lowell Bradt’s Soda cracker. Did you ever have a Bradt’s cracker? A Lowell…
Read More »It’s 24 hours late, but I just finished watching the video of last night’s city council meeting. Here are my notes: Keith Parker owner of a condominium in Grand Manor Condominiums on Willard Street in Lowell. October 2008, DEP discovered “gross contamination” around the entire property. There are several methods…
Read More »On January 29, 1963, Robert Frost, my favorite poet died. Many years ago, in a 9th grade Literature class, a football coach/English Teacher “forced” me to memorize one of his poems ….I thank that man even today, since the poem has been my favorites ever since. I hope you enjoy…
Read More »The enter below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The media have taken the measure of the man: Chet Curtis was a prince. Smart, caring, funny, calm and comfortable. No argument there. Chet had many “princely” trappings – a huge salary for the time, what seemed to…
Read More »Back in the spring of 2009, the Lowell School Committee was contemplating budget cuts. During the public comment portion of a school committee budget session, one individual – I believe it was a teacher – was speaking critically of the cuts. While she spoke, most of the members of the…
Read More »Geoff Foster of UTEC, who’s coordinating the local effort to lower the voting age in Lowell’s city election to 17 years old, sent the following update on the bill’s progress: On January 16, 2014, under the leadership of Senator Eileen Donoghue, the Massachusetts State Senate voted 30-7 to add the…
Read More »In case you’re looking for my notes on last night’s Lowell City Council meeting, I was previously scheduled to lead a talk at UMass Lowell on the subject of Lowell history so I wasn’t able to watch the meeting in real time. I will catch a replay as soon as…
Read More »The story of Solon Perkins and the Perkins family – ancestry and progeny – is further revealed by history researcher Eileen Loucraft. She forwarded this recent find: Re: Solon Perkins ~ His father, Apollos Perkins (1799-1877) was the editor of the first northern NH Whig newspaper “White Mountain Aegis” –…
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