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On Saturday, November 8 from 7 pm until 11 pm, there will be a special event at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. The purpose? To raise funds for the Sacred Heart Neighborhood Scholarship at UMass Lowell. What makes this event unique is how it came about. Six individuals…
Read More »Belanger for Baker The very close race for governor of Massachusetts between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker landed in Lowell earlier in the week when Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito visited the city. She was escorted through the Hamilton Canal District by City Councilor Corey Belanger…
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Read More »Cadets from the UMass Lowell Air Force and Army ROTC detachments joined members of the Greater Lowell Veterans Council, local elected officials, representatives of the UMass Lowell Office of Veterans Affairs and family members of a Lowell Tech student killed in action during World War Two to dedicate the new…
Read More »The following sales took place in Lowell this week: September 29, 2014 – Monday 1 Newbury St for $260,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $265,000 96 Cashin St for $335,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $394,900 14 Wannalancit St Unit B for $112,000. Prior sale 2006 foreclosure 38 Smith St…
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Read More »Don’t miss the final Lowell Cemetery tours of 2014: today at 1 pm and tomorrow at 10 am. Both begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance right behind Shedd Park. Free and no registration required.
Read More »Jeff Speck, a nationally recognized urban planner, was brought to Lowell four years ago by the Lowell Plan to draft a plan to improve the city’s downtown, primarily by making it more walkable. Called the “Lowell Downtown Evolution Plan”, Speck’s ideas have supporters and critics. Today Speck was the keynote…
Read More »This past Tuesday night the American Textile History Museum and Lowell Telecommunications Corporation hosted a preview of “Lowell: Place of Invention”, a series of four short videos about invention in Lowell that will premiere at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in 2015. Sponsored by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center…
Read More »Historian Julie Mofford shared the following which is based on letters sent home by a Lowell mill girl from 1861 to 1865 “You work in Lowell!” exclaimed our daughter-in-law’s father, Chuck Grover. “Why, my great-grandfather had a good friend who worked in the textile mills there. I inherited a stack…
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