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Lowell School Committee meeting notes
Amy Bisson watched last night’s Lowell School Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. Here full report is now online.
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Lowell City Council Meeting: December 15, 2015
Vote to cancel council meetings of December 22 and December 29, 2015. Report on how to change the City Charter. Councilor Belanger asks about raising the number of signatures needed to qualify for a ballot position. City Solicitor Christine O’Connor says the same process occurs no matter what type of…
Read More »Dorcas Grigg-Saito: Low Key, High Success
Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate brokerage and consulting firm, shares the following essay: This is a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things. Feel free to suggest others who should be so recognized and have…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: December 13, 2015
Above photos: Tuesday was the earliest sundown of the year. Since sunrise keeps coming later until December 21, at least it is already staying lighter longer in the day, if only for just a minute or two each day. This photo is from Monday at 4:15 pm (Tuesday was cloudy)…
Read More »December 13, 1977 fire at Providence College
Several years ago I wrote a blog post about a fire at Providence College early in the morning of December 13, 1977. The original post now has more than 50 comments, many of them from people who were there that evening. On this anniversary of this event, please take a…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of December 7, 2015
The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: December 7, 2015 – Monday 401-403 Beacon St for $350,000. Prior sale in 1964 50 Liberty St Unit 4 for $165,500. Prior sale in 2003 for $169,900 157 Rea St for $328,000. Prior sale in 1985 December 8, 2015…
Read More »Lowell History Since World War II
This Saturday, December 12, 2015, the Lowell Historical Society will hold a program on Lowell History Since World War II at 2 p.m. at the Pollard Memorial Library’s Community Room. Paul Marion and I will be the main speakers. We will both discuss the past seventy years of our city’s…
Read More »“The Numbers Guy” by Vincent Valentine
Recently I met Vincent Valentine, the founder of The Telephone Museum. Not surprisingly, we were soon talking about Lowell and its role in the development of the telephone. I invited him to share some telephone stories with our readers here on richardhowe.com: “The Numbers Guy” How We Got Telephone Numbers…
Read More »Lowell City Council Meeting: December 8, 2015
Public hearing on establishment of the “minimum residential factor.” This is the percentage of the tax levy that is allocated to residential property. Manager Murphy begins by reviewing the financial accomplishments of this council. Foremost is its support of education; the city exceeds the amount required for “net school spending.”…
Read More »“Spotlight” movie review
I saw Spotlight yesterday at the Lowell Cinema. It’s a very powerful film. The story is well-known but the movie still generated an incredible amount of suspense. While the core of the story is the clergy sexual abuse scandal, the movie is mostly about how it was covered up for…
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