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Neighborhood meeting on Wellman St project

The Highlands Neighborhood Association will host a meeting on Monday, March 28th, 2016 at 7:00pm at 59 Lowe’s Way – 2nd Floor. The purpose of this meeting is to review a proposal by Connector Park Equity Partners LLC to construct 240 apartments with 498 parking spaces in an attached garage…

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Lowell Week in Review: March 20, 2016

Moses Greeley Parker Lecture Today This afternoon at 2 p.m. at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, I will give a Moses Greeley Parker Lecture on “The Solon Perkins Flag.” The talk is free and the forecasted snow is not supposed to amount to much, so please…

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Parker Lecture: Empire of Cotton

Last evening, I joined an overflow crowd at Lowell National Park Visitor Center to hear Harvard history professor Sven Beckert talk about his bestselling book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (chosen by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2015; also a finalist for…

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Neighborhood Subcommittee goes on the road

The City Council’s Neighborhood Subcommittee took its meeting on the road last night to Temple Emmanuel on West Forrest Street. The gathering was co-hosted by the Highlands Neighborhood Association which meets regularly at the Temple. The Subcommittee, chaired by Dan Rourke with John Leahy and Bill Samaras as members, plans…

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