Derek Mitchell Halloween rally

October 30, 2013 by DickH Posted in Election 2013 Leave a Comment

Derek Mitchell has an interesting event planned for Halloween night – a rally that begins and ends at Kittredge Park at the corner of Andover and Nesmith Streets. Here’s what Derek’s Facebook Page says about the event: Join Derek Mitchell and the campaign volunteer team for a visibility and rally…

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Lowell City Council meeting, October 29, 2013

October 29, 2013 by DickH Posted in City Council 2 Comments

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE The Economic Development Subcommittee of the city council met before the regular meeting. CM Lynch and Adam Baacke made the same presentation on economic development that they gave at the Lowell Plan Breakfast last month. My report on that event covers most of what Baacke said tonight.…

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Lowell Sun endorsements

October 29, 2013 by DickH Posted in Election 2013, Politics 3 Comments

The Lowell Sun website now has the newspaper’s endorsements for city council. Eight candidates were endorsed, three incumbents and five challengers. Incumbent councilors who received the endorsement were: Ed Kennedy Rita Mercier Joe Mendonca Challengers who were endorsed were: Dan Rourke Jim Milinazzo Stacie Hargis Derek Mitchell Corey Belanger That…

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“Glorious Gems of Lowell: Patrick Keely’s Legacy” ~ Saturday November 2, 2013

October 28, 2013 by Marie Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

For those current or former parishioners of Lowell’s St. Patrick’s Church, the Immaculate Conception Church, St. Michael’s Church or the demolished St. Peter’s Church, you might want to attend the Saturday Parker Lecture. On November 2, 2013 at 2:00pm the ninety-six year old free public lecture series along with co-sponsor the…

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Terezin Music Foundation touches core of humanity by Marjorie Arons-Barron

October 28, 2013 by Tony Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When my husband and I visited the Terezin  [also known as Theresienstadt] concentration camp outside of Prague in 1990, we could only begin to imagine the horrors the Nazis visited upon the political prisoners and Jews housed there.  The barracks where human beings…

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