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For professionals looking to learn about “smart building”, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources Presents some “Smart Building Workshops” – in April and May across the Commonwealth. Join them on April 4th in Lowell at the Mayor’s Reception Room in City Hall, 375 Merrimack Street. Smart Building: High Performance Homes…
Read More »From the CBS Boston.com (WBZ TV) website State Senator Eileen Donoghue was seated prominently yesterday – to see and be seen – at the Annual St. Patrick’s Day Breafast in South Boston – hosted by her colleague State Senator Jack Hart. This is quite a coup for a freshman senator. While…
Read More »Shortly after 11 am on April 19, 1861 as the Lowell-based Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment marched through Baltimore on its way to reinforce the nearly undefended Washington DC, a pro-Southern mob attacked the soldiers from Lowell. Within an hour, Luther Ladd, Addison Whitney, Sumner Needham and Charles Taylor were…
Read More »Tony Sampas captures the point at which the Merrimack Canal and the Eastern Canal meet
Read More »Performing at the Tsongas Center at Umass Lowell Saturday night the Dropkick Murphys end the show with Shipping Up To Boston. This video was originally posted by r2baar
Read More »This is interesting. Follow the “Room for Debate” topic of the day on career counseling from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Read the feature here, and buy the NYT if you want more.
Read More »A group of talented Lowell High students taking an after school photography class conducted by noted area photographer John Boutselis have posted their photos online. From time to time I’ll be posting some of their work here. Below is “Church Street Bridge, Winter”
Read More »I first read about the Tewksbury parody band FivePack Live in the Tewksbury Patch (thanks). The band features Tewksbury residents JJ Heider, Mike Daley, Amanda Kozik and Joe Vitale. FivePack Live has posted four parody music videos on YouTube and is catching. Most of the bands videos are racking up…
Read More »Poet Marie Louise St. Onge, who has deep roots in Lowell’s French Canadian-American community, sent this poem from Maine.—PM . Thaw . The Merrimack loosed from the jaws of late March speeds by high. And dark smooth currents run fast not like a steed whose head is high mane and tail…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and who teaches economics at Bentley University and UMass Lowell, contributes the following column. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a government agency described as “the state’s venture capital firm.” I can’t put my finger on it,…
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