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The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: February 8, 2016 – Monday No sales – snowstorm February 9, 2016 – Tuesday 205 Smith St for $252,400. Prior sale in 1995 for $80,000 19 E. Richardson St for $245,000. Prior sale in 2015 for $160,000 16-18 Ecklund…
Read More »My ability to predict the outcome of elections is as bad as my ability to predict football games. Here’s what I wrote this past Sunday morning: As for tonight’s [Super Bowl] game, I pick the Panthers. Since I’m making predictions, on Tuesday in New Hampshire, I think Donald Trump will…
Read More »Update on Auditor selection process: Councilors have each submitted their top three choices from the resumes/applications, so the next step is to schedule interviews with the three top candidates. The three top candidates are Brian Perry, John Linnehan, and Sheila Rouix. Next Tuesday, the council will pick a future dates…
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Winter Weather: The Good and the Bad We seemed to have tolerated Friday’s snowstorm pretty well. After a week of long range forecasts predicting that the storm would miss us, by mid-day on Thursday weather-people were rapidly revising their forecasts. The rain began very early on Friday and switched to…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: February 1, 2016 – Monday 24 Maude St for $290,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $300,000 10 Ecklund Dr for $264,900. New construction 88 Roper St Unit D for $180,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $177,000 353 Pawtucket Blvd…
Read More »Amy Bisson watched last evening’s Lowell School Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. She wrote a full report on her own blog. Much of the meeting involved the report on the racial incident at Lowell High School. Amy supplements her report with her own observations as a recently-retired Lowell…
Read More »Our electricity didn’t fail last night; neither did our roof. The wind was so violent by 9 p.m. that I didn’t think either would last. The National Weather Service observations from Hanscom Field in Bedford reports gusts up to 40 mph at that time, but from inside the house, the…
Read More »Reports from City Manager: UMass Lowell bus routes thru Pawtucketville. UMass Lowell redirects its buses to avoid traffic. Councilor Samaras suggests this might be causing a problem for the neighborhoods they are driving through. He understands that altering routes to avoid construction might be necessary, but would prefer it not…
Read More »Last week, State Representative Rady Mom held a pre-Iowa Caucus Straw Poll at the home of Lisa Gwiazda and Matt Donahue. Besides indicating their preference for president in 2016, attendees were asked to bring or where their favorite presidential campaign memorabilia. I wasn’t able to attend, by I’m told by…
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The Next Initiative Thursday’s “Next Initiative” gathering has the potential to be a very important milestone in the city’s evolution. As I wrote in my blog post the next day, the objective is to make better use of the canals and rivers embedded in the city for day-to-day recreation, culture,…
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