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Canal Street & PML Colonade
Some Lowell photos from Tony Sampas. Canal Street (above) and the Pollard Memorial Library colonade (below)
Read More »Hockey Talk
Between the UMass Lowell River Hawks skating and blasting their way into college hockey’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh this spring and now the surging Bruins, one win away from the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in three years, our region is in prime condition for a spell of…
Read More »June 6, 2013 – the 69th anniversary of D-Day
I always try to remember major events in American history with a blog post. Today is the 69th anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Below is a repeat of a post I did last year. Above and below are photos from a family visit to…
Read More »Kirby Perkins A+ scholarships distinguish WCVB TV 5 by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Shootings, muggings, fires, crashes, sports and weather– all the stuff of local television. Then there are the Kirby Perkins A+ scholarship segments. Kirby was a Channel 5 reporter who especially loved politics and sports. The station’s “High Five” series…
Read More »Median real estate prices: 2002-2012
Anyone wondering why the real estate market is taking so long to recover from the bursting of the bubble in 2007 should consider the price swings over the past decade. This information is from the LowellDeeds blog which shows the median sales price of deeds recorded during a given year. …
Read More »Happy 35th Birthday to the Lowell National Historical Park!
Today is the 35th anniversary of the signing of the legislation creating the Lowell National Historical Park. It was exciting and interesting to have been a part of the local efforts to make this happen. I was a member of the Board and later president of the Lowell Museum where…
Read More »Casey Crane and the 1995 City Council Election
Yesterday morning I was a guest on the local cable TV show, City Life, along with Marie Sweeney and Casey Crane. That will be a name familiar to anyone who lived in Lowell in the 1990s, because Casey (also known as Elenore Rinaldi) was the co-host of a morning talk…
Read More »“Old Ironsides” ~ the Eagle of the Sea
U.S. Navy image The USS Constitution was one of the original six frigates of the United States Navy, commissioned by the Naval Act of 1794. “Old Ironsides” was the nickname given to this 18th century frigate during the War of 1812 after its naval battle with the HMS Guerriere. In 1830…
Read More »Pure Color
Web photo courtesy of catseye-marble.zip I was out early with Ringo the dog this morning, before 6 a.m., and the thick grass on the South Common and flawless sky over Lowell were of such pure color that I began thinking about the bright cat’s-eye glassies that I collected and played…
Read More »Congressman John Tierney to Billerica Head Start classroom to discuss the Local Consequences Sequestration
Today in the Head Start classroom located at Billerica High School, Congressman John Tierney (MA-6) captures the kids attention as reads to them. (M. Sweeney photo) The Community Teamwork take on this morning’s visit by Congressman Tierney as noted on the organization’s website. Community Teamwork, Inc. It was a sad…
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