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* Noted in today’s Lowell Sun about an event scheduled for tomorrow night – The Lowell Citywide Parent Council will host its Mary J. Bacigalupo “You Make a Difference” Awards Night on Monday at the Stoklosa Middle School, 560 Broadway St., at 7:30 p.m. Who is Mary J. Bacigalupo? Back…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk today reports that Bob Dylan via his website has responded to critics who claim he submitted to Chinese political censors’ demands and sent authorities the list of songs he planned to play on a recent visit there. Dylan stated that he played everything he…
Read More »The Lowell Historical Society will hold its annual meeting today. The meeting itself begins at 1 pm, but it will be followed at 1:30 pm by a public program on “Civil War Stories” about Lowell. This program will consist of a panel discussion featuring Jack Herlihy of the Lowell National…
Read More »The Middlesex Superior Courthouse in Lowell was one of 31 historic buildings open to the public this weekend during Doors Open Lowell. With nearly 60 people visiting the courthouse between 10 am and 1 pm, the event was a huge success from our perspective. An informal survey disclosed that the…
Read More »Merrimack Street crosswalk by Tony Sampas
Read More »Last night Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, the city’s public access cable TV station, held the grand opening of its new/renovated facility on Market Street. In its original configuration, LTC occupied a ground floor portion of the refurbished mill building and a second floor portion that was offset from the ground floor.…
Read More »On this day – May 14, 1942, a bill was passed in the US Congress creating the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The bill was introduced by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell Massachusetts. From the official biography of Rogers from “Women in Congress”: Congresswoman Rogers’s crowning legislative achievements came…
Read More »Less than a month after the Lowell-based Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment had to fight its way through a pro-secessionist mob in Baltimore to make it through to Washington, Ben Butler acted decisively and on his own initiative to wrest that key city away from the rebel sympathizers, putting it…
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