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Lowell Walks – Infamous Crimes

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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Lowell City Council Preview: June 25, 2018

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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Lowell Round-Up: June 22, 2018

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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Lowell Places: Superior Courthouse

“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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Lowell Week in Review: June 16, 2018

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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Lowell Round-Up: June 15, 2018

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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