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Coming Soon: All-Electronic Real Estate Closings By Richard P. Howe Jr. Until recently, the thought of a real estate closing that did not involve dozens of paper documents that contained cursive signatures made in ink seemed far-fetched. However, conversations with certain brokers, bankers and lawyers suggest that a tipping point…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tonight’s Lowell City Council meeting: After a three-week hiatus, the Lowell City Council is meeting again. The agenda, once again, is lengthy. This week’s preview is focusing on the Motion Response (11) and the new Motions (15). There are many other aspects to the agenda which will…
Read More »First Middlesex State Senate Race One of the contested races to be decided by the September 4, 2018, state primary will be for the Democratic nominee for the First Middlesex State Senate seat. That office has been vacant since Eileen Donoghue resigned the seat after being elected Lowell’s city manager.…
Read More »Still getting caught up on my weekly Lowell in World War One posts. This is the 63rd installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago:…
Read More »Today I was interviewed by Steve Brogan of Tyngsborough cable TV about my Register of Deeds reelection campaign. It’s 30 minutes; please watch. Here’s a link to the video.
Read More »Lowell Walks resumes this Saturday, August 11, 2018, at 10am from the Lowell National Park Visitor Center with a “Downtown Art Galleries” walk led by Liz Stewart of COOL. The walk will visit The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, the Arts League of Lowell, the Whistler House, the New England…
Read More »After a short break, I’m resuming my Lowell in World War One posts. This is the 62nd installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago:…
Read More »New Suburbanism This past Wednesday I attended a Middlesex 3 Coalition conference called “Real Estate 2020: Building for the Future.” Middlesex 3 is a coalition of government and private sector stake holders located in nine towns located along Route 3. These communities are, from north to south, Tyngsborough, Westford, Chelmsford,…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian reviews this week in Lowell politics: Lowell Round-Up: August 3, 2018 By Mimi Parseghian With the City taking a break to celebrate and host the Folk Festival, it was relatively quiet week for local politics. But that was not the case on Beacon Hill, where the legislature finally…
Read More »Lowell Folk Festival It’s hard to believe that this is the Folk Festival’s 32nd year in Lowell. Events Friday night and all day yesterday provide strong evidence that the Festival keeps getting better. The Friday night parade included delegations representing more than two dozen nationalities who have made Lowell their…
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