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Parker Lecture Tomorrow Afternoon

Tomorrow at 2 pm at Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street, I will co-present a Moses Greeley Parker lecture on Moses Greeley Parker and the New Hampshire Telephone Museum. The other speaker will be Laura French, the executive director of that museum. Like all Parker Lectures, the event…

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Referendum Results by precinct

Question 1 on yesterday’s ballot read as follows: The City of Lowell is reviewing several options for its high school project. Do you support extensive renovation and rebuild at the existing Lowell High School location, at 50 Father Morissette Boulevard, Lowell, MA 01852? The outcome was 7254 voted YES; 4629…

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2017 Lowell City Election Results

City Council Vesna Nuon – 7518 Edward Kennedy – 6483 John Leahy – 6114 Bill Samaras – 6094 Rita Mercier – 5730 Jim Millinazzo – 5688 Rodney Elliott – 5447 Dave Conway – 4974 Karen Cirillo – 4973 Sokhary Chau – 4756 Dan Rourke – 4729 Cory Belanger – 4722…

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Council Meeting Preview

Thanks to Mimi Parseghian for her preview of tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: After a two week break, the Lowell City Council is back to the regular Tuesday night meeting schedule.  The November 7th agenda has only three City Council motions but quite a few of the Administration’s “motion…

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Lowell Week in Review: November 4, 2017

Election Day Preview The polls open on Tuesday at 7 am and remain open until 8 pm. On the general election ballot, incumbents come first followed by challengers, each group listed alphabetically. The names on the council ballot will be listed as follows: Corey A. Belanger Rodney M. Elliott Edward…

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Twenty-Five Years of City Elections

Here’s a synopsis of city council and school committee elections from 1991 through 2015 to provide some historical context for Tuesday: 1991 Voters reelected council incumbents Tarsy Poulios, Bud Caulfield, Kathy Kelley, Richard Howe, Gerald Durkin, Robert Kennedy and Curtis LeMay. Joining them were former councilor Richard O’Malley and newcomer…

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Wind Storm Wrap Up

This storm will pack a punch, but it’ll be gone quickly Power outages are virtually guaranteed across southern New England. After a beautiful day on Saturday, things are rapidly going to go downhill Sunday afternoon and into the overnight. . . . Power outages are virtually guaranteed across southern New…

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Lowell Week in Review: October 29, 2017

LHS at Boston Book Festival Among the nearly one hundred author sessions at yesterday’s Boston Book Festival was one called Defining Diversity which is also the title of a book published last May by a class of Lowell High students. Taking the stage at 11:30 am in the Boston Public…

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