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The Lowell Sun reported yesterday on its website that the American Textile History Museum at Dutton Street in Lowell will close “temporarily” on January 1, 2016 due to “ongoing serious financial constraints.” As yet, the Museum has nothing about this on its website. It the ATHM a casualty of Dutton…
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This past Tuesday, 10,714 of the 59,265 registered voters in Lowell voted in the city election. That’s a turnout percentage of 18%, but voter participation was not spread evenly across the city. Instead, just a few sections of the city yielded the bulk of all votes. For electoral purposes, Lowell…
Read More »Governor Charlie Baker and Lt Governor Karyn Polito were in Lowell yesterday. At 3pm they visited the Hamilton Canal District for a press conference at which they announced two big grants of state money to city projects. The first was a $4.7 million “Mass Works” grant that will be used…
Read More »Yesterday was a good day for incumbents in Lowell. Every one of them who was on the ballot for reelection was successful. I’m not sure anyone was surprised by that although some, especially the council challengers and their closest supporters, may have hoped otherwise. Of the 59,265 people registered to…
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Here are the unofficial totals for this year’s city election, direct from City Hall: City Council 1. Rita Mercier – 6228 2. Rodney Elliott – 5420 3. Edward Kennedy – 4797 4. John Leahy – 4566 5. Bill Samaras – 4540 6. Jim Milinazzo – 4434 7. Dan Rourke –…
Read More »(Election night, so a quick agenda). Accept donation of $5000 for fire department for personal equipment for new fire fighters to be hired over the winter. Motion by Councilor Leahy to better coordinate traffic flow around the VFW Highway-Bridge Street construction project which is about to halt for the winter.…
Read More »Polls open at 7 am and remain open until 8 pm. Check back here later tonight for election results. Here are the results from the September 29, 2015 preliminary election: Rita Mercier – 2129 Rodney Elliott – 1778 John Leahy – 1678 Dan Rourke – 1669 Jim Milinazzo – 1562…
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Lord Overpass Walk Thanks to the 75 people who participated in yesterday’s Lord Overpass Walk, especially Councilor Jim Milinazzo who joined in the entire 90-minute walk, and Councilor Ed Kennedy and State Representative Rady Mom who caught up to us at different points on the walk. Again and again, those…
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On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 6 pm at the Lowell Senior Center, the city’s Department of Planning and Development and the civil engineers hired to redesign the Lord Overpass will hold a public meeting at which residents will have an opportunity to share their ideas about the project. In…
Read More »This past Wednesday night, October 27, 2015, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation hosted a “Capital Conversation” at Middlesex Community College in Lowell. The purpose of this and fifteen other sessions around the Commonwealth is to give the public a say in the development of massDOT’s Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal…
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