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Community Meeting on 2024 Olympics
The following is from State Senator Eileen Donoghue: Dear Friends & Colleagues: Boston 2024 has launched a series of 20 statewide community meetings over 20 weeks to give the public across Massachusetts an opportunity to ask questions, offer ideas, and help shape the bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic…
Read More »Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast
The Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce held its 20th annual Legislative Breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Tewksbury yesterday morning. After welcoming remarks from Tewksbury Board of Selectmen Chair Todd Johnson and some brief remarks from Dr. James Mabry, the new president of Middlesex Community College, the several hundred Chamber…
Read More »Lowell City Council Meeting: March 3, 2015
City Auditor report on snow and ice costs. City Manager says Governor Baker is lobbying FEMA to reimburse municipalities 100% for snow costs. Nothing definite but city preparing paper work just in case. Councilor Milinazzo asks city to investigate FEMA reimbursement of lost revenue for some businesses. Manager says he’ll…
Read More »Lowell Real Estate: Week of February 23, 2015
The following sales occurred in Lowell last week: Feb 23, 2015 – Monday 197-199 Stackpole St for $185,000. Prior sale in 1972 1524 Gorham St Unit 105 for $110,000. Prior sale in 1989 for $74,900 Feb 24, 2015 – Tuesday 615 Beacon St for $191,500. Prior sale in 2007 for…
Read More »City of Lowell Census arrives: Important!
An envelope from the City of Lowell was waiting in my mailbox today. On the outside, it says PLEASE OPEN IMMEDIATELY RETURN BY MARCH 9, 2015 The enclosed form is pretty simple. You just have to make corrections to the names, gender, date of birth and occupation of members of…
Read More »Celebrating Civil & Voting Rights at UMass Lowell
Professor Bob Forrant sent the following: University of Massachusetts Lowell Spring 2015 COMMEMORATION OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT “ In 1964, President Johnson put pen to paper and signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Fifty years later, few pieces of legislation have…
Read More »“Sun file photo” or my Flickr account?
When I saw the front page of today’s print edition of the Lowell Sun, the photo of the Rialto Building used to illustrate the story on Middlesex Community College looked surprisingly familiar. That’s probably because I’m the one who took it. Below is the photo that appears in today’s Lowell…
Read More »Lowell Week in Review: March 1, 2015
Welcome to March Well March is finally here. I saw somewhere that March 1st signals the start of “meteorological spring” but today’s forecast is for more snow which will just add to the beauty of the 111+ inches that have already fallen this winter. The City Council, at its Tuesday…
Read More »Lowell City Council Meeting: February 24, 2015
(I attended the Transportation Subcommittee meeting earlier Tuesday night and so was unable to watch this meeting live so I watched the LTC replay online on Saturday morning, Feb 28). Vice Chair Leahy is chairing the meeting; Mayor Elliott is absent. Council endorses the 2015 Open Space & Recreation Plan. …
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