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This coming Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 2 p.m. at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, Lowell, I will be presenting a Moses Greeley Parker lecture. My topic will be the Solon Perkins flag. Perkins is best known for his service as a Union Cavalry officer in…
Read More »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…
Read More »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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Gun Violence Down Police Chief Bill Taylor was at Tuesday’s city council meeting and shared some good news: gun violence in Lowell was down substantially in 2015 compared to the prior year. Taylor attributed that mostly to the hiring of 20 additional police officers and also to changes in the…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: March 7, 2016 – Monday 50 West St for $166,400. Prior sale 2014 tax taking March 8, 2016 – Tuesday 74 Gates St for $262,500. Prior sale in 2010 for $166,500 March 9, 2016 – Wednesday 571-573 Westford St…
Read More »Election of City Auditor. Bryan Perry elected by 7 to 2 vote (with Councilors Mercier and Elliott voting for John Linnehan). Council then appoints for a three year period and to set the salary in accordance with an existing salary grid for administrators (approximately $96,000 per year). Report that gun…
Read More »The following is by Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate brokerage and consulting firm. It is the latest in a series of articles written by Fred about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things. Lydia and Craig: Next…
Read More »Blog reader Richard Pitkin recently read “The Rise and Fall of American Growth” by Robert Gordon (2016) and shares his observations with us: This is an important work that covers the fundamentals of the change in the American economy over approximately the last 170 years. In many ways this book…
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Kronos Comes to Lowell The big news in Lowell this week was the announcement on Monday that technology company Kronos will be moving from Chelmsford to Lowell to occupy an entire tower at Cross Point (See Kronos press release). Everyone has heard of Kronos, a technology company that makes software…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: February 29, 2016 – Monday 82 Eleventh St Unit 82 for $195,000. Prior sale in 1999 for $106,600 107-109 Seventh Ave for $253,620. Prior sale in 2015 for $249,500 71 Clare St for $110,250. Prior sale 2015 foreclosure 52…
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