Tonight (Monday, November 13, 2017) at 6 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor meeting room, the city of Lowell Division of Planning and Development will present an update on the latest plans for the remake of the Lord Overpass. The meeting is open to the public.
Mimi Parseghian looks at the agenda for this coming Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting, which begins at 6:30 pm and will be televised live on LTC channel 99 and streamed live on LTC’s website. And if you can’t attend the meeting in person, or watch it live, check back here…
Post-Election Analysis After a campaign of many months, Lowell voters spoke on Tuesday. Their message was loud and clear: The nonbinding referendum in favor of keeping the high school downtown prevailed by a margin of 61% to 39% which, by any measure, is a landslide; the council’s existing 5 to…
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…
This is the 30th weekly 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 this week: November 5, 1917 – Monday – US Troops captured. Forced…
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…
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…
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…
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…