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Back row from left: Joe Fitzpatrick, Gerry Durkin, Brendan Fleming, Curtis LeMay, Bud Caulfield and Bob Kennedy Front row from left: Tarsy Poulios, Richard Howe Sr, Brian Martin Only four councilors – Fleming, Howe, Brian Martin and Bob Kennedy – won reelection that year making it the first term for…
Read More »Tomorrow morning (Saturday, August 28) at 9 a.m., Kim Zunino of the Lowell Historic Board will lead a tour of the School Street Cemetery. Surrounded by a stone wall in the midst of a century and a half old residential neighborhood, this cemetery is bounded by Branch, School and Middlesex…
Read More »Video originally posted by lowellfilm YouTube video description: “Jack Kerouac historian and Lowellian Roger Brunelle talks with Suzzanne Cromwell on the banks of the Merrimack River which dramatically overflowed in March 2010. In a spontaneous moment, Brunelle expounds about the 1936 floods in Lowell, relaying how Kerouac integrated the experience…
Read More »Today the yield on US Treasury 1-year bonds fell to 2.50%. Three months ago, it was above 3.25%. In April, it had actually peaked at 4%. A falling interest rate means that investors are worried about the long-term economic outlook of the United States. Many people have been arguing for…
Read More »Fellow blogger Nancye Tuttle just returned from Atlanta and posted the following report on her own blog, Nancye’s World, and has allowed us to repost it here: I recently returned from Atlanta – or Hotlanta as my brother-in-law calls it. Indeed, it was hot and steamy there last week. But…
Read More »One of our regular readers, writer and poet Jacquelyn Malone, shows up today as a contributor. Jackie is living in Lowell for the second time around; she was here during the high-tech boom of the late ’70s and into the ’80s. I was introduced to her work in the ’80s…
Read More »Some random observations on life in the city of Lowell as Fall approaches . . . Thursday is trash day in the Highlands. It used to be that early morning jogs turned into early morning sprints after coming face-to-tail with skunks foraging for food amongst the roadside Hefty bags. That…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards. I’m always hearing stories about how the nuns messed up the lives of so many of my Lapsed Catholic friends. (Yes, Catholics can be friends with Lapsed Catholics. All a Catholic has to do to maintain the…
Read More »I consider the Lowell Spinners to be unsurpassed in the field of minor league baseball promotions, but the Binghamton Mets, the double AA affiliate of the New York Mets, definitely earned honorable mention on Tuesday night with a “plunger giveaway.” The first 1000 fans into the park received a free…
Read More »There’s a new source of news in Chelmsford – the “Chelmsford Patch” launched recently as an online, constantly updated community newspaper with a full-time editor, an aggressive presence on Facebook and Twitter, and a heavy dose of reader generated content. Here’s how the Patch describes itself: Chelmsford Patch is your…
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