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6 pm at the Lowell Senior Center. Public meeting on the future of the Lord Overpass and vicinity. Please attend.
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Lowell Week in Review: November 15, 2015
Lord Overpass Public Meeting Tomorrow night at 6 pm at the Senior Center at Broadway and Fletcher, the Lowell Department of Planning and Development will hold a public meeting on the Lord Overpass renovation project. The consultants who are designing the new version of the Overpass will be on hand…
Read More »Electing Lowell’s Mayor
For those of you interested in who will become Mayor of Lowell for the next two years, here is some history of past Mayoral elections: 1966 – Monday, January 3 – Edward Early – elected unanimously on the first ballot. Sam Pollard, Bob Maguire, John Cox, Richard Howe, Tom Crowley,…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of November 9, 2015
The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: November 9, 2015 – Monday 70 Austin St Unit 10 for $135,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $125,000 108 Roper St Unit E for $150,000. Prior sale in 1990 for $80,000 322 Rogers St for $268,000. Prior sale in 2002…
Read More »“Meanderings” by Jim Peters
The latest from regular contributor Jim Peters: One of my good friends told me the other day that he could not read my blogs sometimes because they were so full of history and notes on historical facts. So, I promised him a new Meanderings. Here it is. I…
Read More »Worcester panhandling ordinances Unconstitutional
Earlier this week, a U.S. District Court judge struck down two anti-panhandling ordinances enacted by the city of Worcester. The two ordinances sought to ban “aggressive panhandling” and “panhandling from traffic islands”. The ostensible reason for both ordinances was to protect public safety but the record (mostly minutes of Worcester…
Read More »Lowell City Council Meeting: November 10, 2015
Vote authorizing City Manager to execute Massachusetts School Building Authority feasibility study agreement relative to Lowell High School. CM Murphy explains that on November 18 at the MSBA meeting the city is expected to be “invited in” to the feasibility study process which is 3 months earlier than had been…
Read More »Mehmed Ali: War and Peace
Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate consulting firm, previously was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He shares the following essay: This is another entry in a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things including…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: November 8, 2015
City Election Voters opted to stay the course on Tuesday, reelecting all incumbents on the ballot including eight city councilors and two school committee members. Even those elected already had connections with city government: Jim Leary, the new city councilor, was an incumbent school committee member; three of the four…
Read More »Lowell Election By The Numbers
Some facts about last week’s city of Lowell election: Registered Voters in Lowell: 59,265 Number who voted on Tuesday; 10,714 Turnout percent: 18.1% Average council votes cast per ballot: 6.0 Average school committee votes per ballot: 3.7 Precinct with highest per ballot CC vote: 9-1 (6.8 votes) Precinct with lowest…
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