Matt Hanson, the chair of the Chelmsford Board of Selectmen, provides a brief video overview of the board’s September 9, 2013 meeting which included Center Fire Station Headquarters bid awards, Grinder Pumps/Sewer Fairness Alliance, Town Meeting Warrant Articles and various other topics. [youtube]UpgcaHtLagc[/youtube]
Read More »
Mass Moments reminds us that… …in 2001, American Airlines pilot John Ogonowski made the familiar drive from his farm in Dracut to Logan airport. He was sorry he would miss a special event scheduled for later that day. Federal officials were coming to inspect the work of Cambodian immigrant…
Read More »
Monument to the University of Massachusetts Lowell community (alumni and family members of alumni) who perished on September 11, 2001: Patrick J Quigley IV, Christopher Zarba ’79, Jessica Leigh Sachs, John A Ogonowski, ’72, Robert J Hayes, ’86, Brian K Kinney, ’95, and Douglas A Gowell, ’71. Photos by Tony Sampas. …
Read More »
Here is the first in a series of videos that will try to explain the basics of real estate law in Massachusetts. Today’s topic: What is a deed? [youtube]EwOmlF-YkKk[/youtube]
Read More »
This is the sixth in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is eighth place finisher Edward Kennedy. The information presented below is organized…
Read More »
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Like so many, I have been struggling with the Syrian dilemma of strike/no strike, reflected in my previous blog . Congressman John Tierney, speaking to the New England Council yesterday morning, spoke of his own struggle to “do the right…
Read More »
I watched tonight’s Lowell City Council meeting so that you didn’t have to. Here’s what I saw: Meeting begins; all present. Citations, etc. Councilor Mendonca motion, refer Senior Center funding issue to Finance Subcommittee. Councilor Nuon refers Cupples Square issue to Economic Development Subcommittee. Councilor Elliott asks to suspend the…
Read More »
‘Middlesex & Wood Streets” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 [drawing, 2005] See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »
Four of the city of Lowell’s polling places have changed locations in time for the September 24, 2013 preliminary election. All three precincts in Ward 2 which formerly voted at the Masonic Temple on Arcand Drive will now vote at the Tsongas Center (f/k/a Tsongas Arena) on Martin Luther King…
Read More »
From the archive: After serving for 35 years as a Member of Congress representing the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District, Edith Nourse Rogers died on this day September 10, 1960 – in the midst of her nineteenth Congressional campaign, three days before the primary. Mrs. Rogers – at the urging of…
Read More »