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Southeast Asian Water Festival

Congratulations to all who organized and attended today’s Southeast Asian Water Festival which seemed to be a great success. The crowd this year look larger than in the past few years and the weather was perfect. It’s hard to believe that this was the 18th annual Water Festival and it’s…

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Lowell Week in Review: August 10, 2014

At the same time as City Manager Kevin Murphy was stating that his “number one priority was making downtown Lowell a college town” I was pulling into Williamstown, Massachusetts for a few days.  Williamstown, 120 miles west of Lowell, is tucked into the northwest corner of Massachusetts and borders New…

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Lowell Folk Festival follow-up

Congratulations and thanks to all involved for another successful Lowell Folk Festival.  I attended on both Saturday and Sunday with vastly different experiences but that was because of the heavy rain that fell midday on Sunday.  Hopefully the financial impact was less severe than the weather.  I am sorry I…

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