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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When the Boston marathon was bombed, we all shared the grief and noted that “We are Boston.” So, too, when the capital city selects a new mayor, the people of Greater Boston, not just its voting residents, have a stake…
Read More »When Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray announced the other day that he would resign his office, it drew my attention to the 2014 state election which, while it seems far off but really isn’t. There is no provision for filling a vacancy in the office of Lt Governor so there’s no…
Read More »When I was growing up a lame riddle often repeated was: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.” Looking back on it, I can see the question and answer are just kind of daffy, but also hear a little bit of a Merrimack…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lieutenant Tim Murray is one lucky dude. You might say he has escaped with his life. The affable former three-term mayor of Worcester has never been able to elude the bad karma surrounding his mysterious early morning car…
Read More »Last night I spoke at the Lowell City Council meeting to urge the city of Lowell to apply for the Distressed Properties Identification and Revitalization Grant recently offered by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. The purpose of this grant is to fund a position with Gateway Cities (such as Lowell)…
Read More »Mark Lynch, a well-known member of Lowell’s blogosphere, shared the following letter to the editor he composed about his thoughts on allowing city residents to own and raise chickens: Last night I attended a neighborhood action meeting for the first time in three years or so. I did so because…
Read More »Having to attend last night’s city council meeting for other reasons, I got to City Hall early to catch some of the Neighborhood Subcommittee Meeting on the proposed ordinance that would allow ownership of chickens within the city. There were 30 people in the crowd (I couldn’t see if any…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us that on this day May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was viciously attacked on the floor of the United States – beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks, a Congressman from South Carolina. The issue – the language used by Sumner in a passionate anti-slavery…
Read More »Photo taken last September, 2012 Returning home from my errands at 2:10pm … I encountered a Lowell Police presence along with many utility and city trucks as a very large branch of the iconic Pow Wow Oak that hung over Clark Road in Lowell has broken off… hard to see…
Read More »The aftermath of the South Lowell (then Tewksbury) Cartidge Company Explosion, 1903. The Lowell Historical Society will hold its annual meeting tonight in the ground level Community Room of the Pollard Memorial Library. The meeting itself begins at 6:30pm with a brief business meeting and election of officers and directors.…
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