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The National Park Service is 97 years old today. The following is an excerpt from the law that made Lowell, Massachusetts, part of the system of national parks in America.—PM . Public Law 95-290 95th Congress June 5, 1978 (H.R. 11662) Lowell National Historical Park 16 U.S.C. 410cc. An Act…
Read More »With his brothers William and Josiah, 26-year-old Micah Hildreth joined Capt. Peter Coburn’s Dracut minutemen when they engaged British troops at Lexington and later fought at Bunker Hill and in the siege of Boston in late 1775. He marched with dozens of Dracut men to Fort Ticonderoga in northern New York…
Read More »March on Washington: Commonly referred to as the March on Washington, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought over 200,000 people to the nation’s capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. The March on Washington took place on…
Read More »Tadodaho Sidney Hill with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (right) and Jamon Paskernin (2012, White House Tribal Nations Conference). At Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s Convocation for New Students at Syracuse University on August 23, the Thanksgiving Address was offered by Tadodaho Sidney Hill in his language—an English translation was…
Read More »The following sales of real estate occurred this week in Lowell: August 19, 2013 – Monday 200 Market St Unit 312 for $164,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $205,000 August 20, 2013 – Tuesday Lowell RE sale: 24 Burnside St for $150,000. Previous sale in 2013 for $136,000 Lowell RE…
Read More »The following article appeared in the latest edition of Khmer Post USA and is reposted here with with permission of Khmer Post and of the author, Sengly Kong, Ph.D., who is the chair of the Cambodia Town committee. In 2010, the City of Lowell designated a Cambodia Town in order…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. The good news is that there are more than a few candidates running for mayor of Boston who are at least as credible as Hizzonah Mayor Menino 20 years ago. The bad news is that sorting them out…
Read More »Since the election to choose the next governor of the Commonwealth is still 15 months away, not all of our readers might be following developments related to that race. There have been a few during the past 72 hours, so I thought it appropriate to document them here. Juliette Kayyem,…
Read More »Last night I made the drive down River Road to the Wyndham Hotel in Andover to be the guest speaker at the annual gathering of landlords who participate in Community Teamwork’s HomeBASE program which provides rental assistance to families in need. There were nearly seventy landlords in attendance from across…
Read More »Derek Mitchell who is a candidate for Lowell City Council sent along the following Op-Ed on the topic of opioid addiction, a critically important issue in this city and across the country. (I welcome similar articles on any topic within reason by anyone, candidate or non-candidate. Just email your piece…
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