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Yesterday’s storm: another view
John Boutselis shared this photo of the clouds of yesterday’s storm as seen from the Reservoir atop Christian Hill.
Read More »The new urban migration of business
Today’s Globe has a story about businesses abandoning suburbia and flocking to the city, overlooking significantly higher rents to accommodate the strong desire of employees to live, work and relax in an urban environment. To those who believe in the path Lowell embarked upon years ago of downtown revival and…
Read More »Stormy Weather
Tony Sampas captured this view of today’s stormy weather as seen from UMass Lowell’s South Campus.
Read More »The City Seal – another variant
Tony Sampas found another version of the city’s official seal, this one on the Lowell Emergency Management bus.
Read More »The excavation in the Acre
I’ve not yet been to Ireland but my understanding is the country does not often – or ever – see warm and humid weather of the type we are experiencing here this week. Our visiting Irish archaeologists are showing no signs of curtailing their effort on the front lawn of…
Read More »‘Commute’ by Richard Marion
This will be a good day to stay above it all and catch a breeze if you can find one. “Commute” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Tanglewood the Higgs boson of classical music by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I can’t really understand, much less explain, the Higgs boson, or the Higgs field that excites the creation of the Higgs boson. Scientists tell us it is the last fundamental piece of standard model of particle physics to…
Read More »Heat Wave
When you’re an early riser, nature often misleads you when making weather observations. At 5 am in mid-summer the sun has yet to rise and except on the most tropically humid days, the air seems fresh and invigorating. Once the sun peeks over the horizon, however, things change rapidly. The…
Read More »Lowell Police Student Police Academy
The video below was taken at this year’s Lowell Police Student Police Academy. Taken from the Police Department’s website, the following paragraph describes the goals of the academy. The Lowell Police Department, with its D.A.R.E. and G.R.E.A.T. Programs, sponsors a Student Police Academy at the beginning of the summer for…
Read More »‘Re-urbanization’ and City Parklands
Frank Bruni’s column for tomorrow’s NYTimes covers the encouraging trend of city greening, from New York City to places around the country. Read his thoughts here, and get the NYT at home or online if you want more of this kind of writing. This is “Flowering City” stuff in the…
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