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We do seem to like lists – “the best places to live,” the “front runners” in the presidential campaign, our bucket list as so on. Even “geekiness” is fodder for list makers. According to Forbes Magazine – Lowell, Massachusetts is #6 on the list of the 20 “geekiest” cities in…
Read More »Read SUN reporter Rita Savard’s appreciation of Eleanor McGarry of Tyngsboro, who, among many other dimensions of her life, was a Kerouac admirer who started the annual Kerouac 5K road race in Lowell.
Read More »This coming Thursday from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, the Lowell Citywide Neighborhood Council will present a City Council Candidate Forum at the Amphitheater at the North Common. (Rain site is the Lafeyette Club at 465 Fletcher Street). The topic for this forum is “Public Safety & Neighborhood Issues.” Three other…
Read More »In the spring and the fall each year, I lead free public tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. This month, tours will occur on Friday, September 9 at 1 pm and Saturday, September 10 at 10 am. Another set will occur on Friday, September 23 at 1 pm and Saturday, September…
Read More »Last October I traveled to Houston to attend the funeral of David McNerney, a Lowell native who was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam and who also was my mother’s cousin. Up early the morning of the funeral, I tuned the radio in my hotel room to a local…
Read More »Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference had his day with the Stanley Cup yesterday and he spent it in the North End, his current neighborhood of residence. Transporting the trophy with his bicycle and trailer that usually holds his two young daughters, Ference visited the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and then arrived…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, Paul Osterman writes about what lack of work and poorly paying jobs do to individuals and families. He describes a reality check in Texas, where there is talk of plenty of jobs. Read the essay here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »A current editor of the Providence Journal who once worked for the “Lawrence Eagle-Tribune” wrote a column yesterday urging Rhode Islanders to look to Lowell’s experience in obtaining a National Park as the Ocean State attempts to secure the same for its Blackstone Valley corridor. Here’s how the author, John…
Read More »[youtube]KD2B4_RJonA[/youtube] A commercial for Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich filmed at the Branch Street Firehouse. Even Wendy’s knows there’s a lot to like about Lowell. (Thanks to Corey Sciuto for posting the link on Facebook which is where I first saw it).
Read More »In the spring and the fall each year, I lead free public tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. This month, tours will occur on Friday, September 9 at 1 pm and Saturday, September 10 at 10 am. Another set will occur on Friday, September 30 at 1 pm and Saturday, October…
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