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The City of Lowell’s Department of Planning and Development hosted a public meeting last night at the Pollard Memorial Library meeting room to update residents on plans to renovate the city’s South Common. DPD’s Rachel Kisker facilitated the meeting and landscape architect Nina Brown (whose first project in Lowell was…
Read More »There’s a report in today’s Boston Globe that there is a tentative agreement in place for the Steward Health Care System that recently purchased the Caritas hospital system to acquire Saints Medical Center in Lowell. For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, with community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expected…
Read More »Guy Lefebvre of the Lowell Gallery has a terrific collection of Civil War prints and memorabilia. Many of the images used to illustrate my talk on Sunday about “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War” came to me courtesy of Guy. Please visit his shop and check out…
Read More »State Senator Barry Finegold (D – Andover) Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover) who represents the Second Essex Middlesex District covering the communities of Andover, Dracut, Lawrence and Tewksbury has released his office hours schedule for early in the month of April: MONDAY, APRIL 4. Dracut Council on Aging – 951 Mammoth…
Read More »Textile Bridge in Lowell by Tony Sampas
Read More »Donald Trump has begun in earnest to make a mockery out of the electoral process that will ultimately lead to the election of a president. In Trump’s never ending pursuit to increase his own celebrity status, he has released a copy of his birth certificate as a sign of his…
Read More »Today’s entry from the Lowell High Photo Blog (I believe the Owl was part of a science class exhibition and not roaming around downtown).
Read More »Yesterday I wrote about how, in the days following the April 19, 1861 riot in Baltimore that cut off Washington, DC from New England and the Atlantic states, General Benjamin Butler of Lowell opened a new line of communications to Washington by going through Annapolis. A long-term solution required the…
Read More »As the month of March – Women’s History Month winds down – MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 29, 1880, twenty women voted for the first time at the Concord Town Meeting. This new voter group was led by renown writer Louisa May Alcott who “campaigned” door-to-door urging women…
Read More »Tom Sexton, a Lowell High graduate and Alumni Hall of Famer and former Poet Laureate of Alaska, will read from his work in progress, which is a collection of sonnets about growing up in Lowell in the 1940s and 50s. He will also read from his new book, “I Think…
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