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Lowell Walks kicked off yesterday morning with 81 people gathering at the National Park Visitor Center to be led around downtown by Fred Faust on the Preservation Success Stories tour. Faust, who is the President of The Edge Group, a real estate consulting firm, and was an assistant to US…
Read More »In my Week in Review column last week I endorsed in principal the proposed deal whereby the city would acquire ownership of eight bridges that are now owned by Enel. A friend writing under the pseudonym Hans Hammermill left a thoughtful comment on that post suggesting that the city should…
Read More »Today is the 71st anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, one of the most audacious military operations ever undertaken. In recognition of the event, I’ve reposted below a story I wrote several years ago about D-Day. Includes are some photos from a 2004 family visit to Normandy. The Allied invasion…
Read More »The following properties in Lowell sold last week: June 1, 2015 – Monday 38 Jennifer Rd for $295,000. Prior sale in 1986 311 Pawtucket Blv Unit 23 for $101,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $124,000 337 Totman Rd for $293,000. Prior sale in 2010 for $195,000 53 N. Billerica Rd…
Read More »Tomorrow at 10 am kicks off the all-new Lowell Walks summer walking tours of downtown Lowell with Preservation Success Stories led by Fred Faust. Fred has invited several building owners and Charles Parrott, the Lowell National Park’s Historical Architect, will join him. There will be some great stories shared on…
Read More »Back on January 1st I shared some memories of past New Year’s. Most were pleasant memories; one was not. That concerned the murder of Dr. Hugh Mahoney, his wife, and their 14-year old son in their Tewksbury home late in evening of December 31, 1975. Here’s the portion of my…
Read More »I tuned in after the meeting had commenced. Councilors are questioning Police Chief Taylor now. Councilors seem to concur that the proposed budget is a responsible one that is has no fat in it and therefore has nothing that demands to be cut. They observe that much of the items…
Read More »Congratulations to yesterday’s groundbreaking by Middlesex Community College of the Boston & Maine Railroad Depot restoration project. I was not able to attend so MCC’s Pat Cook kindly sent some observations about the project and the event, along with some superb photos by Kevin Harkins. The following is by Pat…
Read More »Frequent contributor Jim Peters shares some of his thoughts today: I have not meandered in awhile, so I thought that this might be a good thing to do. I have noticed that my books keep getting older, and while that does not make them useless, it does create in some…
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