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Lowell Week in Review: June 28, 2015

Two weeks ago saw three different million dollar plus real estate deals in Lowell (Markley Group/Prince Spaghetti; Lowell Community Charter Public School/Mill No. 5; UTEC/Central, Prescott & Warren Streets).  This week there was one deal of that scale: an apartment building at the corner of Stevens Street and Princeton Boulevard…

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An Amazing Week

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” —Martin Luther King Jr. Usually I don’t use this space to comment on national issues but I believe that history will record this week to be a momentous one in our nation’s story.  That demands comment. Confederate…

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Lowell Walks tomorrow – Literary Lowell

  Tomorrow morning at 10 am the fourth edition of Lowell Walks will kick off from the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street.  The tour is Literary Lowell and the Pollard Memorial Library.  It will be led by Sean Thibodeau, the library’s Coordinator of Community Planning.  The tour…

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Lowell City Council meeting: June 23, 2015

(transcribed on Thursday, June 25, 2015) “Day Program” at Transitional Living Center Director of Lowell Transitional Living Center (“the Shelter”) speaks to council about its day program which will begin in July.  In the past, residents of the shelter had to leave during the day and return at night to…

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Lowell Week in Review: June 21, 2015

 Lowell Walks – Lowell High We had another successful Lowell Walks tour yesterday: “Inside Lowell High School” led by Headmaster Brian Martin.  88 people joined the tour which began at the National Park Visitor Center and then moved on to Kirk Street, entering the building at the doorway under the…

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Lowell High Tour tomorrow

Tomorrow – Saturday, June 20, 2015 – is the Inside Lowell High School guided tour, part of the Lowell Walks summertime series.  Meet at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street at 10 am to meet our tour guide, Lowell High Headmaster Brian Martin.  The tour is free…

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The Paddy Camps of Lowell

Nancy Pitkin sent the following about an upcoming selection of the Pollard Memorial Library’s nonfiction book group: Father John’s Medicine is engraved in the lintel of one of the many renovated historic buildings in Lowell on Market Street and is now apartments. I’d always assumed that the name for Fr.…

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