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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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Market Basket With no council meeting this week, the Market Basket saga continues to be the biggest news around. As Kendall Wallace wrote in his Saturday Chat yesterday (no link yet), there should be at least one fascinating book to come out of this. The DeMoulas family feud has been…
Read More »July 28, 2014 – Monday 39 Harland Ave for $325,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $330,000 133 Havilah St for $520,000. Prior sale in 1972 July 29, 2014 – Tuesday 1 Canal Place Unit 501 for $205,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $197,000 18 Gilmore St Unit 18A for $120,000.…
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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…
Read More »Thanks to Tony Sampas for the following photos:
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Lowell Folk Festival It’s the last weekend in July so the Lowell Folk Festival is upon us. Walking around downtown yesterday afternoon was a lot of fun. It wasn’t the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen but it was large enough to prove that the Festival continues to be very popular. …
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: July 21, 2014 – Monday 732 Varnum Ave for $220,000. Prior sale in 1970. 886 Central St for $48,403 (sheriff’s deed) 5 Juniper St for $380,000. Prior sale in 1935 26 Manchester St for $349,000. Prior sale in 1984…
Read More »Last night the Lowell Election Commission formally voted to change eleven of the twenty polling places used in the last election. Although the press release from the Commission doesn’t mention it, one of the main reasons for the change was that some of the former locations were in social clubs…
Read More »At the Lowell City Council on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Mayor Rodney Elliott made a motion requesting the City Manager have the Chief Financial Officer and Superintendent of Schools produce a report regarding the costs incurred to educate newcomer students. Besides Mayor Elliott, Corey Belanger was the only City Councilor…
Read More »In the year 1215 a bunch of English nobles staged a tax revolt against the king and threatened his overthrow. Attempting to buy time, the king agreed to sign a petition they composed that set out their rights and privileges in relation to the monarchy. As soon as the crisis…
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