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Marijuana Sales Start Saturday Next Saturday, March 9, 2019, is scheduled to be the grand opening of the city’s first retail marijuana facility, Patriot Care, at 70 Industrial Ave East, just beyond the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel that is adjacent to the Lowell Connector. At this past Tuesday’s city council…
Read More »Starting last fall, my blogger-colleague Paul Marion began posting updates on local writers and poets who Paul found were doing “interesting and substantial things” with their work. That effort has yielded 22 writer profiles and has reminded us of others who should be included on the roster and introduced us…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on politics and current events this week: The Working City Initiative, a Lowell, collective impact partnership working with all residents and business owners to improve the Acre neighborhood of Lowell, in partnership with Lowell Telemedia Corporation (LTC), Lowell’s local access television, are translating the City…
Read More »ROLL CALL – all present CITY CLERK Minutes of City Council Meeting February 14th, for acceptance. AUDITOR BUSINESS Vote-Reappoint Bryan Perry to the position of City Auditor. (Cont. from February 14, 2019). Mayor Samaras says a month ago he asked for a report from the auditor on what the Lowell…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian preview tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: Although the City Council has been on a two-week hiatus, the agenda is relatively light in the number of items but heavier in content. There is a motion introduced by Councilor Vesna Nuon and Councilor Ed Kennedy that will help expand…
Read More »Blue Ribbon Committee Friday’s Lowell Sun had a report about the School Committee’s Wednesday night discussion of the process to be used to select a new superintendent of schools (“Will board members sit on supt. screening committee?” by Elizabeth Dobbins). Much of the focus seemed to be on the composition…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on politics and current events this week: Among the many unique and significant events that take place Lowell is the Naturalization Ceremony. The event is held a few times a year at Lowell Memorial Auditorium and the latest was last month on January 15th. But…
Read More »Lowell High Plan Advances On Tuesday the City Council voted 8 to 0 to send the schematic design of the new/renovated Lowell High School to the Massachusetts School Building Authority (Mayor Samaras missed the meeting due to a medical issue). Of particular note was the vote of Rita Mercier, who…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on politics and current events this week: Thursday’s news of Amazon not pursuing new headquarters in New York City in spite of a $3 billion tax break, coupled with GE having to give back $87 million to Massachusetts for not meeting the employment quota it…
Read More »Date: February 14, 2019 (Postponed from February 12, 2019) ROLL CALL: Mayor Samaras absent. Councilor Mercier presiding. [Item taken out of order] Vote-Authorize Submission of Schematic Design to MSBA. Presentation by architects/engineers of new/rehabbed Lowell High. The 1922 building will be a “like new” renovation. Emphasizes that while it is…
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