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Lowell City Council Meeting: November 15, 2016
Communications from the City Manager Plain Street realignment: Manager says city has negotiated an agreement suitable to the VFW. With that agreement, the design of the intersection can move forward. Joanne & Drew Weber Way: Councilor Mercier was disappointed that UMass Lowell opted not to rename UMass Lowell’s right of…
Read More »Wednesday Night: Two Events
There are (at least) two important events happening in Lowell tomorrow night. Take your pick, but please try to make it to one of them: Downtown Canalway Visioning Session Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 6 pm to 8 pm UMass Lowell Innovation Hub, 110 Canal St, 3rd Floor The City is…
Read More »College Aborted College Regained
Another essay by Bob Hodge, a 1973 graduate of Lowell High School, a 1990 graduate of University of Lowell, and one of the greatest runners to come from Lowell – ever. Bob has previously contributed, Running Down a Dream: Cohasset by the Sea Road Race, April 1978 and School Daze…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: November 13, 2016
Preserving River Meadow Brook Greenway The Lowell City Council faces a dilemma this Tuesday night. A generous, longtime, Lowell-grown business, Gervais Auto Group, wishes to expand its operations on Industrial Ave. But the expansion plan threatens to block an important stretch of the long-planned River Meadow Brook Greenway that once…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of November 7, 2016
The following is cross-posted from the Lowell Deeds blog: The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: November 7, 2016 – Monday 29 Emerson Ave for $200,000. Prior sale in 2015 for $55,000 73 Bigelow St for $329,900. Prior sale in 2009 for $198,000 85 Sherman St…
Read More »Gone Lowell: 211 Pawtucket Street
Above: 211 Pawtucket Street, August 1978. The CMCA (Corporation of the Members of the Catholic Association) founded in 1878. Below: Staircase of 211 Pawtucket Street, November 22, 2011 Photos by Tony Sampas
Read More »President-Elect Trump
At 10 p.m. last night, Twitter reported that the Canadian immigration website had crashed. It was time to go to bed. While the election outcome wasn’t final, by that point it was clear to me that Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States. I did go…
Read More »Lowell City Council Meeting: November 8, 2016
Moment of silence for Walter Bayliss, who passed away on November 1, 2016. Report on fees city charges. Manager Murphy highlights fee for registering foreclosed properties. It has been $100 per year. Proposes raising it to $1000 per year to create added incentive on banks to quickly sell foreclosed properties.…
Read More »Recalling 2000 Presidential Election
On November 26, 2000, I wrote an account of that years presidential election – which had yet to be decided, so I added an epilogue on January 2, 2001. With tomorrow’s election looming, I decided to share my story from 16 years ago, with the hope that history does not…
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