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Only Five Percent – (PIP #38) By Louise Peloquin The last couple of weeks have offered followers of the world’s political scene a pretty exciting roller-coaster ride. Headlines like “Starmer In, Sunak Out as Labour Wipes out Conservatives” dominated UK news on July 5th. Reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian won…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Locker Room Talk: One Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside by Melissa Ludtke is a sports writer’s impressive account of her 1978 lawsuit against Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who had banned female reporters from interviewing baseball players in the locker…
Read More »The city council resumed meeting on Tuesday night after a three week break. Several issues that arose warrant mention. MOU with WinnDevelopment for HCID – The council authorized City Manager Tom Golden to execute a memorandum of understanding with WinnDevelopment regarding Parcels 11 and 12 of the Hamilton Canal Innovation District.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I thought the Boston Red Sox were well past their sordid corporate history of bigotry and ugly fans’ and players’ misbehavior. New ownership since 2002 has largely been a breath of fresh air. Gone are the overt…
Read More »Living Madly: The Summer of ‘92 By Emilie-Noelle Provost The excessive heat this season reminds of the summer after my junior year of college. I don’t know if it was as hot back then, in 1992, but it certainly felt like it. The house in which I grew up was…
Read More »Armory Park Monument – 50-74 Westford St – This monument was dedicated on November 11, 1985, on the site of the city’s historic armory which was constructed in 1891 and demolished in 1973. The inscription on the monument is ARMORY PARK – IN APPRECIATION TO ALL NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WHO TRAINED…
Read More »Paris 2024 – When Women became Olympians By Louise Peloquin The 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee has proudly declared that the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games are welcoming the same number of men and women athletes. Most Olympic fans have heard of French educator Pierre de Coubertin’s central role in reviving…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I was happier than I thought I’d be yesterday morning when Kamala Harris announced her selection of Tim Walz as her running mate. That quiet sense of elation rose to celebration last evening with their first joint…
Read More »With the Lowell City Council holding regular meetings on just the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month during the summer, we have a second consecutive week with no meeting to report on, so today we’ll pay another visit to Lowell’s political history. In the May 12, 2024, edition, I…
Read More »Harry Allen Field – at St. Louis Field – Joseph H. “Harry” Allen was known as the “King of Softball” in Lowell and had 1500 wins as a pitcher over a 20-year career. His teams won state championships in 1953 and 1956. He pitched the first night softball game at…
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