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Is Lowell a Happy City?

Is Lowell a Happy City? We’ll find out this fall thanks to the Pollard Memorial Library. This year’s Lowell Reads book is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Lowell Reads is an annual effort by the library to create community through literature and reading. The…

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Lowell Walks – Upper Merrimack St

Please join us this Saturday, July 16, 2016, for the UPPER MERRIMACK STREET Lowell Walk which will be led by Yun-Ju Choi, the Executive Director of Coalition for a Better Acre. The walk begins at 10 a.m. at Lowell National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market St. The walk will…

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Full Time Job

This September 27, 1966 editorial from the Lowell Sun reminds us that fifty years ago, requiring the city manager to do the job full-time was both novel and controversial: At tonight’s City Council meeting a motion will be presented which specifically spells out one of the basic requirements of the…

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Literary Lowell: A Bibliography

This past Saturday, Sean Thibodeau, the Coordinator of Community Planning at the Pollard Memorial Library, led a Lowell Walk on Literary Lowell. Sean told some great stories about writers who were from Lowell, visited Lowell, or wrote about Lowell. Throughout the tour, participants asked for a list of the works…

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Lowell Week in Review: July 10, 2016

Local Development Roundup: It was a relatively quiet week in local political news so let’s take a quick look at the status of some of the major development projects in the city: Hamilton Canal District: There have been a few positive developments for the Hamilton Canal District including the selection…

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