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Preliminary Election Week: 1973

This post was scheduled for last week during “Preliminary Election Week” but somehow failed to appear so I’m posting it today.  Here are the results of the 1973 Lowell City Council preliminary election: 1. Armand LeMay 8878 2. Robert Kennedy 8623 3. Leo Farley 8088 4. Ellen Sampson 7648 5.…

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Richard Howe Substack – Sept 24, 2023

The Lowell City Council continues its every-other-week summer meeting schedule, however, the agenda for its regularly scheduled September 12 meeting was so long that the Council, in a rare move, opted to hold a special meeting the following Tuesday (September 19) to complete the items on the agenda. My own…

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Living Madly: Goldfinches

Living Madly: Goldfinches By Emilie-Noelle Provost Late summer has always been a relief. By this time of year, I’m sick of hot, muggy weather. I’m tired of air conditioning, and of eating salad for dinner because it’s too hot to use the stove. I long for cool breezes and early…

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Dear Mary Lou,

Dear Mary Lou by David Daniel Dear Mary Lou, it’s been a long time since you’ve heard from me & vice versa. Why I’m writing now—a total shot in the dark—today I drove across one of the bridges on the Merrimack, the big river here where I live in Lowell,…

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Cornelius F. Kiernan (1917-1996)

The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here.  **** Cornelius F. Kiernan (1917-1996) The Lowell Justice Center was formally dedicated to former Judge and State Representative Cornelius F. Kiernan…

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Cornelius F. Kiernan Judicial Center dedicated

The following was distributed earlier today as my weekly Substack newsletter on Lowell politics. If you’d like to receive this weekly update by email in the future, sign up here.  **** The Lowell Justice Center was formally dedicated to former Judge and State Representative Cornelius F. Kiernan (1917-1996) on Friday, September…

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Cornelius F. Kiernan Electoral Record

The Lowell Justice Center was dedicated yesterday (September 15, 2023) as The Cornelius F. Kiernan Justice Center. Kiernan served as a state representative for nearly a quarter of a century. Here are the results of the various state elections in which he was a candidate. (Through most of his career,…

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Preliminary Election Week: 1993

Here are the results of the 1993 Lowell City Council preliminary election: 1. Laurie Machado 7310 2. Stephen Gendron 6245 3. Richard Howe 6169 4. Tarsy Poulios 5873 5. Michael Geary 5224 6. Matthew Donahue 4928 7. Brian McMahon 4822 8. Grady Mulligan 4339 9. Edward Bud Caulfield 3916 10.…

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Preliminary Election Week: 1983

Continuing our “Lowell preliminary election week,” here are the results of the 1983 Lowell City Council preliminary election: 1. Richard Howe 6838 2. Armand LeMay 6353 3. Robert Kennedy 6202 4. Raymond Rourke 6178 5. Edmond “Gus” Coutu 6087 6. M. Bendan Fleming 5743 7. Edward Kennedy 5637 8. Brian…

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Preliminary Election Week – 1963

September in odd-numbered years is traditionally the time for city of Lowell preliminary elections. Since there aren’t enough candidates to require a preliminary this year, I thought I would post the results of some past preliminary elections this week starting with the 1963 Lowell City Council preliminary election. The first…

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