This is the 60th 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 for the past week: June 24, 1918 – Monday – Great Victory: Offensive…
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This Saturday’s Lowell Walk is “Infamous Crimes in Lowell” led by Kerry Regan Jenness and Wayne Jenness. The walk begins on Saturday, June 30 at 10 am at Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street. This 90 minute walk will cover crimes reaching back to the 1860s that include…
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Here is today’s installment of Lowell Places, a series of recurring blog posts about buildings, bridges, parks and other places in the city of Lowell. Today, the Lowell District Court at 41 Hurd Street. On March 27, 1837, Lowell Mayor Elisha Bartlett executed a deed conveying the second floor courtroom…
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Mimi Parseghian previews this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: If Lowell City Council agendas were books, this week’s agenda would be a trilogy. Meetings every other week and the end of the fiscal year financial housekeeping are the reason. GENERAL PUBLIC HEARINGS Extend Existing Institutional (INST) Zoning District to include…
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Richard Howe Lawn Signs Will you help my reelection campaign by placing a Richard P. Howe Jr. for Register of Deeds sign in your yard? If you live in one of the following towns and can help with a sign location, please call or text me at (978) 387-8302 or…
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Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on the past week in Lowell: It was a slow political week in Lowell but not in our country. It has become difficult to have a civil discussion on immigration. We live in the age where so many believe that they are entitled to their…
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This is the 59th 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 for the past week: June 17, 1918 – Monday – Austrians hurled back.…
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“Lowell Places” is a new category of blog posts that will appear from time-to-time to tell the story of buildings, parks, bridges and other structures of historical interest in Lowell, Massachusetts. Incorporated as a town in 1826 and a city in 1836, the rapid growth of Lowell brought an increase…
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Real Estate Trends: Prices Up With 2018 nearly half over, some trends in local real estate have become apparent. For the entire Middlesex North District (which consists of Lowell, Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and Wilmington), the number of sales from January 2018 through the end of…
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Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on the past week in Lowell: This week’s City Council meeting had two separate discussions on marijuana. With the impending launching of the recreational cannabis industry, the Councilors have begun to count the tax revenue that is estimated to be generated by these sales. There…
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