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Long-time Lowell State Rep Ed LeLacheur passed away this week. He was first elected in a special election held in 1975 to fill the vacancy created when Ray Rourke resigned from the House to become the Deputy Secretary of Transportation. The House district at the time included Lowell Wards 10…
Read More »The second annual Merrimack Valley Restaurant Showcase Week presented by the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau continues through this Sunday. Information about the great deals available and a list of participating restaurants are available on the CVB website. Nancye Tuttle took advantage of Restaurant Showcase Week to dine…
Read More »Each Friday, I try to post a photo from Lowell politics past. Here’s a picture of the late Paul Sullivan inside the Lowell City Council chamber on Inauguration Day sometime in the late 1990s. During his life, Paul was a force in Lowell and Massachusetts politics, serving as the host…
Read More »Five of the twelve top colleges in the most recent rankings by Forbes Magazine – including the highest ranking – are located in Massachusetts. These institutions are: Williams College (1), Amherst College (3), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (5), Harvard University (8) and Wellesley College (12). Here are the top twelve: Rank…
Read More »Its time for the public to wake up and start fighting for the concept of Net Neutrality. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal… That’s how the country’s most sacred document, the “Declaration of Independence” reads. Unfortunately, the time has come when we need a…
Read More »The recent posts about digging for Irish roots in the Acre and Hollywood gossip about the Ward movie “The Fighter” reminded me of Tom Sexton’s poem from his book “A Clock With No Hands.”—PM . Lowell’s Irish Micky Ward . Round 2. Ward’s left eye is already cut, but he…
Read More »An apple a day is the right thing. An apple plus a carrot is even better. Writing in the NYTimes, Natasha Singer looks into “prescription produce” and the sickness prevention benefits of real food, i.e., fruit and vegetables. Massachusetts public policy gets high praise in this article. Lowell and the surrounding towns offer farmers’…
Read More »The Lowell Quilt Festival continues at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the NE Quilt Museum, and other locations around the city on Friday (10 am – 6 pm) and Saturday (10 am – pm). For the full schedule and event details, visit www.nequiltmuseum.org
Read More »Nancye Tuttle writes about this weekend’s Lowell Quilt Festival on Nancye’s World and has given us permission to repost her article here: It’s less hectic than the Lowell Folk Festival, to be sure. But the annual Lowell Quilt Festival promises to be a cozy event this weekend for lovers of…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on this today – August 12th – in 1834 the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown lay in ruins. The night before a Protestant mob sacked it and burned it to the ground. The rioters were mostly poor Yankee laborers who feared and hated Irish Catholic immigrants. While…
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