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River and Chain
Attached to retaining wall of the Meriimack at the foot of Wilder Street. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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Lowell Cemetery evening tour postponed
The Lantern Tour of Lowell Cemetery scheduled for tomorrow evening to benefit the Brush Gallery, has been postponed due to the forecast of heavy rain and high wind. The tour will be rescheduled in the spring 2016.
Read More »Lord Overpass Walk this Saturday
Please join Paul Marion and me this Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 10 am at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street in Lowell for a 90-minute walking tour/exploration of the Lord Overpass and vicinity. Here’s some background: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is in the midst of…
Read More »Upcoming Foreclosures in Lowell
Massachusetts is a “non-judicial” foreclosure state, which means the courts are not directly involved in the process of foreclosing on a mortgage. Instead, it is entirely up to the lender to schedule and conduct a foreclosure. The only way that the public can learn of foreclosure auctions is by reading…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of October 19, 2015
Here are last week’s Lowell real estate sales: October 19, 2015 – Monday 200 Market St Unit 213 for $185,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $185,000 2160 Skyline Dr Unit 3 for $145,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $144,500 821 Central St for $250,000. Prior sale in 1994 for $75,000…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: October 25, 2015
Hamilton Canal District The big news at Tuesday’s City Council meeting was the announcement by City Manager Kevin Murphy that three developers responded to the city’s Request for Qualifications for the Hamilton Canal District. Watermark Environmental, which now is housed in the Wannalancit Mills, wants to build its corporate headquarters…
Read More »Fall comes to Lowell
Boarding House Park
Amy Bisson took advantage of yesterday’s mild temperatures to linger at Boarding House Park. She shares her thoughts and the photo below: Yesterday’s spectacular late-October weather inspired a walk later in the evening. The normally cool temperatures of Autumn had been pushed away for a day and the moon was…
Read More »Film Screening Tonight At MCC
Tonight at 7 pm, Middlesex Community College will hold a free screening of “The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor,” a documentary on one of the most well-known survivors of the Cambodian genocide, Dr. Haing Ngor, the principal character in the Academy Award winning film, The Killing Fields. The…
Read More »Mass State Senate Citizens Legislative Seminar
This week good friend Paul Sweeney attended the Massachusetts State Senate’s Citizens Legislative Seminar. He reports that it was a great experience and was kind enough to compose a report about it which he shares with us here: I recently attended the 75th class of the Citizens Legislative Seminar. You…
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