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At the recent Distinguished Alumni induction ceremony, Bob Kilmartin (LHS Class of 1976), one of the honorees, mentioned having an “open campus” at Lowell High during his time there. Many current Lowell residents are unfamiliar with the “open campus” experiment so I asked Jim Peters, whose father Wayne Peters, was…
Read More »I just returned from a weekend trip to New York City, something that has become an annual family event in recent years. Here are some observations: Getting There: This trip we rode a bus to NYC and it was a great experience that I highly recommend. C&J Bus Lines from…
Read More »Congratulations to Enterprise Bank for another wonderful Celebration of Excellence event last night at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Congratulations also to those who were recognized for their contributions to the community with Excellence awards. The recipients were: Entrepreneur of the Year: Nancy Chippendale of Nancy Chippendale’s Dance Studios of North…
Read More »Some observations from Jim Peters: I have not written about the meanderings of my mind for quite a while. It is probably time that I do so. I was thinking of how peaceful it is in Lowell’s politic since Kevin Murphy became City Manager. Kevin definitely knew how…
Read More »Julie Mofford, a former staffer at the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, who currently lives in midcoast Maine where she writes and works as a museum and historical society consultant, shares this story about government censorship with a Lowell connection: As Lowell Historic Preservation Commission’s representative on the Kerouac Committee, I…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: November 3, 2014 – Monday 69 Agawam St for $355,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $390,000 145 Cross St for $232,000. Prior sale in 2010 for $75,500 1461 Pawtucket Blv Unit E-11 for $140,900. Prior sale in 2005 for…
Read More »Adhering to the rule that all politics is local, let’s begin with the 18th Middlesex Rep race By now everyone knows that Rady Mom won this election and that he won it by a large margin. He received 3847 votes to Fred Bahou’s 2386. Of the twelve precincts in the…
Read More »Although Charlie Baker defeated Martha Coakley in this year’s gubernatorial election, Coakley won Lowell with 10,364 votes to Baker’s 8,915. As for the others on the ballot for that office, Falchuk got 661 votes; Lively got 208; and McCormick got 210. Here are the precinct-by-precinct results for the governor’s race…
Read More »Rady Mom surprised me again. Back on September 9, I didn’t expect him to win the primary, but he did. Yesterday, I thought that he would win but I also thought it would be very close. It wasn’t. In the end, Rady beat Fred Bahou by 22 percentage points. Here…
Read More »Question 1 – A YES VOTE would eliminate the requirement that the state’s gas tax be adjusted annually based on the Consumer Price Index. YES – 10,002; NO – 9,068 Question 2 – A YES VOTE would expand the state’s beverage container deposit law to require deposits on containers for…
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