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Last evening I joined nearly forty others at the Lowell Senior Center for this week’s “visioning session” which was “Community Character and Civic Engagement.” The format was the same as the last session I attended. After a brief review of the city’s Master Plan of 2000, we broke up into…
Read More »Do you plan to attend the Lowell Folk Festival? If yes, why not share your photos or videos with us. Either post them to Flickr or YouTube (or just email individual photos to me – DickHoweJr[at]gmail.com) and we’ll post them here. Same goes for your experiences – look for our…
Read More »In preparation for the Lowell Folk Festival, Tony Sampas provides a photo of some of the tents in the vicinity of Boarding House Park
Read More »It’s Back On Sunday, August 21 the Westford Rotary brings back the Pig ‘N’ Pepper Fest. This fun filled day will take place at the Nashoba Valley Ski Area. An old-fashioned fest for the whole family featuring games and rides for the youngsters and music for everyone. Great food and…
Read More »Another fun video filled with local flavor. Cambodian American Student Association (CASA) UML umass lowell university of Massachusetts Lowell ma khmer angkor wat phnom penh Merrimack …
Read More »Jacqueline Bouvier married John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island Jacqueline Kennedy’s official White House portrait From history.com: On this day in 1929, President John F. Kennedy’s beautiful and popular wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is born into a prominent New York family. Jacqueline, or “Jackie” as…
Read More »Mark Arsenault tells us in today’s Boston Globe that the dispute of long-standing between the Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College on one side and the family of William Cardinal O’Connell on the other – has been settled. Those following the lengthy dispute know that the Archdiocese and BC wanted…
Read More »There’s a great article in yesterday’s New York Times that examines efforts by those in the social sciences and especially historians to utilize GIS technology to better understand the past. GIS, or Georgraphic Information Systems, uses computerized maps as a starting point and then adds layers of other information –…
Read More »Not only are the national Democrats trying to prevent the US House Republicans from using the debt ceiling crisis to reshape public policy wholesale, they have to monitor the barn door to stop the GOP extremists from rushing in with anti-environmental measures while the spotlight is on the debt issue.…
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