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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…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I listen to Cong. Michael Capuano and Niki Tsongas criticize President Obama for not taking the Libyan military action to Congress and, as an old anti-Vietnam War activist, I applaud their stance. It’s hard not to be concerned…
Read More »Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s lecture on “Lowell and the Coming of the Civil War.” While the riot in Baltimore on April 19, 1861 which cost the lives of Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Charles Taylor and Sumner Needham and left two dozen of their comrades in the Sixth Massachusetts…
Read More »If you’re interested in Lowell’s and the Merrimack Valley’s economic future, read this piece in the NYTimes today: Allison Arrief’s “The Future of Manufacturing is Local.” If you want more of this kind of writing, get the NYT daily. When Marie posted about the food company on Phoenix Avenue producing…
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