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Vote: To approve the four unranked options for Lowell High. Councilor Elliott moves to forward all four options to the state. But first there are 39 registered speakers to hear from: Chris Meehan of Kearney Drive – keep LHS downtown. Lives in Cawley neighborhood. Predicts putting LHS on Cawley will…
Read More »Lowell High Update Just a couple of procedural notes on the Lowell High project: This coming Monday, February 27, 2017 at 6:30 pm there will be a special meeting of the Lowell City Council in the Mayor’s Reception Room at City Hall. According to the meeting notice, the purpose of…
Read More »City Councilor Dan Rourke shared the following message about the new Lowell High School: Everyone Benefits from a New High School By Dan Rourke The past few months have been the most engaging, debatable, sometimes frustrating, and by far and away is becoming the most contentious time during my short…
Read More »One of the challenges about the real estate that forms the Cawley Stadium complex is that it’s a patchwork of parcels that have been compiled by the city over more than one hundred years. In this post, I try to trace the ownership chains of the various parcels to provide…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on how the Lowell High debate is changing the political process in Lowell. Political Consequences of the Lowell High Debate By Mimi Parseghian The “high school decision” is going to make or break some political lives. The City of Lowell has not seen this kind…
Read More »New Lowell High School Talk of the new Lowell High project dominated the city this past week. There was Tuesday’s council meeting, the “committee of the whole” council gathering on Thursday that included 16 public speakers, a blizzard of comments on Facebook, and the bombshell news that the intended footprint…
Read More »Motions taken out of order COUNCILOR Rourke – (heard earlier in the meeting) Request City Council approve the naming of the wiffle ball field at Mulligan Park in honor of Calvin Riley. Calvin was a young man who was a random victim of a fatal shooting in San Francisco last…
Read More »Former Mayor Patrick Murphy now lives elsewhere in the Commonwealth, but he still follows events in Lowell. This morning he sent me this essay that shares his thoughts about the benefits of a trust ordinance for Lowell. Thoughts on a Trust Ordinance for Lowell By Patrick Ó. Murphy For Christmas…
Read More »The following is from Mimi Parseghian More on Immigration Enforcement in Lowell By Mimi Parseghian In his report of the City Council meeting as well as his Sunday review, Dick has given a good recap of what occurred. I fully understand that under this highly charged political atmosphere the issue…
Read More »Hamilton Canal District: Third Time’s the Charm? With all the attention given to the new Lowell High School project lately, news that WinnCompanies withdrew as the Master Developer of the Hamilton Canal District nearly slipped by unnoticed. This is unfortunate news, but not unexpected given the conflicting visions that have…
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