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Read More »Vineyard Winter: Lost & Found
Our far flung correspondent Ray LaPorte sends the following from one of the local papers on the island he calls home. Read closely. Ray said a poet could make something of this list.–PM Martha’s Vineyard Times FOUND Black Helix cash box. Call 508-693-4658. LOST CAMERA Canon Elf lost in Gay Head…
Read More »A “Ghost Map” for downtown Lowell?
A recent post by fellow blogger and downtown resident Kad Barma which showed fragments of a broken beer mug in a downtown doorway got me thinking about a book called “Ghost Map” by Steven Johnson. Subtitled “The story of London’s most terrifying epidemic – and how it changed science, cities…
Read More »Kevin White: the mayor who wanted more by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No matter how much he accomplished, the late Boston Mayor Kevin White always wanted something more. His legacy is huge, from having kept the city from going up in flames following the Martin Luther King assassination, to continuing…
Read More »End of January real estate report
At the end of each month on the LowellDeeds blog I do a post that compares that month’s recording statistics with the same month a year earlier. Today’s post shows that January 2011 was a better month than January 2012 for deeds, mortgages and foreclosures. But today I also looked…
Read More »Lowell Cemetery
More photos from Lowell Cemetery. By Tony Sampas.
Read More »New Lowellian Nicholas DiGiovanni Will Read From His Novel
Writer and editor Nick DiGiovanni is a new Lowell resident, based at the renovated Appleton Mills. He sent me a note today about a book event that he has coming up at the Pollard Library. His book is titled “Rip”: I’ll be doing a reading and book-signing at the beautiful old…
Read More »Flags at half-staff
At work I subscribe to an email service from the Governor’s office that notifies recipients anytime the Governor orders flags to be flown at half-staff. The text of one that arrived today went something like this: Please be advised that Governor Patrick has ordered that the United States flag and…
Read More »Archdiocese of Boston Losing the Chancellor
The Boston Globe is reporting that the current Chancellor for the Archdiocese of Boston James P. McDonough has decided to step down after six years on the job. Complimenting McDonough for getting the finances of the archdiocese on a sound footing, Cardinal Sean O’Malley announced that he has chosen John E. Straub…
Read More »Video Surveillance for Downtown?
The behavior of (some) late night occupants of downtown Lowell has been a trending topic in Lowell’s blogosphere with kad barma writing about it here and here; Left in Lowell here and here; and our own post here. The police have increased their presence which is a good thing; a…
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