There is a groundhog in Pennsylvania I would like to have some words with right now.

There is a groundhog in Pennsylvania I would like to have some words with right now.

Anyone who has gone to the grocery store within the last few days should save those receipts, and see how the prices change. From the Andover Stop & Shop last night: 33 Oz Folgers coffee grounds: $16.99 SoyVay teriyaki sauce: $4.99 Store brand honey: $3.79 Spam: $4.69 10 pack mini cokes: $8.49

Lowell expands its housing inventory by 270 market-rate units with latest real estate deal approved by the City Council. www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/27/l...

Billerica Town Manager Clancy Main has submitted his resignation letter to the Select Board this afternoon after less than a year on the job. More info to come in The Sun soon.

There has been a claim of at least one ICE vehicle spotted in Lowell today. If anyone else has seen something similar, please let me know. Thanks!

I would like to formally propose an annual national holiday on which everybody agrees to not do anything newsworthy for the day.

This week's packed Column in The Lowell Sun: Loss in a Market Street cornerstone, ADUs, a Smith-Baker reversal, an update on the Rourke Bridge, nomination signatures, an indicted cop and a a local election shaping up. www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/16/t...

Even if every single one of these immigrants was some sort of super-criminal, the blatant disregard for the separation of powers and checks and balances should terrify every American. It's simple: If they can ignore due process for them, they can do so for you.

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants despite judge's ruling | Click on the image to read the full story

Has a consumer pull back started? A local gas station/garage owner told me his daily receipts are half of what they were 2 months ago. Sure, there are big economic shifts - job/funding cuts, rising prices - but reporters also have to talk w/small biz owners to take the pulse of the local community.

The lying ALONE is monumental (and politicians are already known for having issues with the truth...so it takes a lot to move that needle). But this is Orwellian levels of "flooding the zone with shit". Impossible to even begin to fact check. As it was designed to be.

I know there is a lot going on right now, but speaking as a journalist, the fact that the president of the United States just publicly threatened the right to protest, and that is not an all-caps headline on the top of every major news page is a damning indictment on the state of American media.

You know that scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off where Ben Stein is droning on about how tariffs worsened the great depression, and the students are shown to be bored or not paying the slightest amount of attention? Those students have a better understanding of tariffs than this White House.

"Peace for our time," British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Sept. 30, 1938. The Blitz would begin less than two years later, because dictators don't negotiate in good faith. Sound familiar?

HCID development, potholes, Dracut politics and a (sort-of-not-really) local connection in the Trump administration in today's Column. I certainly didn't expect to start my piece writing about the Steward crisis and ending it in Ukraine, but alas... www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/02/t...

Kids still want to read, if they are given the means. The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell celebrated Literacy Day among its members to celebrate their high reading rate. www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/01/b...

In for a penny, in for more than 40,000,000,000 million pennies ($400 million) - and counting, as Lowell High School renovation/rebuild project is forecast to run over schedule and budget. www.lowellsun.com/2025/03/02/c...

MBTA Communities isn't the only tool being employed by the state to tackle the housing crisis. This week the Billerica Select Board discussed an early draft of a zoning bylaw to establish a starter home district somewhere in town through a state law passed in 2022. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/26/b...

They came for legal sanctuary - at the invitation of the U.S. govt. - fleeing unrest and violence in their home countries. Now Haitian/Venezuelan families staying in Lowell, must make a reverse migration within the next 6 months. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/26/w...

Housing, housing, housing. It may take a couple of years to address the backlog, but it's happening in places like Lowell, MA. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/25/h...

The Boston Foundation comes through in a big way for Eliot Church in Lowell, with a $50K grant to help support its vital homeless outreach mission. "We rely on grants and donations to operate," Executive Director Joyce Hughes said. "It's a great blessing." www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/22/e...

Environmental justice communities - low income, minority and low English language skills - can be the site of high levels of toxic releases from co-located manufacturing plants. The Toxics Use Reduction Institute describes how toxic use reduction is an EJ issue. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/11/r...

The Community Care in Reach Mobile Health Unit - a mobile medical van - is one more tool in the homeless outreach toolkit. The van program brings much-needed care and interventions to the streets of Lowell, as well as other communities in the commonwealth. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/09/h...

Construction is underway on a 56-unit senior housing development in Dracut. The project has an estimated completion date of June, 2026, and is expected to be fully occupied by that September. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/05/d...

At a town hall event in Billerica hosted by @trahan.house.gov, Constituents of the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District expressed their fears over the flurry of unprecedented actions of the new Trump Administration. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/03/w...

Never bend the knee. www.lowellsun.com/2025/02/02/t...

A lesson to anyone growing peppers, or anything else, indoors: Cat-proof it.

Budget cuts/pauses/freezes without planning and preparation are cruel and inept. People -vets, kids, disabled, elderly, and more - get hurt when the social safety net is ripped. www.lowellsun.com/2025/01/29/c...

CHELMSFORD — A blaze erupted at a residence on Morocco Street in the Chelmsford Commons mobile home community on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the home in ruins. www.lowellsun.com/2025/01/29/f...

Florida man, 78, finds out that unilaterally cutting his entire country off from trillions of dollars is a really bad idea and would make a lot of people angry. More at 11.

In the interest of altering some provisions found in the default state law going into effect Feb. 2, Chelmsford's special Town Meeting voted overwhelmingly to adopt a local accessory dwelling unit bylaw Monday. www.lowellsun.com/2025/01/28/c...

Bird flu is hurting birds, consumers and businesses. Recent catastrophic spread has caused a sudden drop in egg supply with a resulting sharp rise in prices. Small businesses really feel the economic pain. www.lowellsun.com/2025/01/29/b...

This week's Column has a little bit of everything: Municipal fines, accessory dwelling units, health care, a candy tax, and Nazis. www.lowellsun.com/2025/01/26/t...

School Committees statewide are updating standards to reflect the new law eliminating passing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) testing as a requirement for high school graduation. www.lowellsun.com/2025/01/21/s...

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