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City Council Meeting: May 27, 2014

May 28, 2014 by DickH Posted in City Council 1 Comment

Moment of silence for Ed Trudel, former Lowell Special Events Coordinator who died on Saturday. Lowell Green Building Commission award for “green building excellence” to Chris Gleba and Kris Erikson, owners of an 1895 property at 48 Epping Street that was recently renovated. Vote authorizing CM to execute a lease…

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Memorial Day in Lowell

May 26, 2014 by DickH Posted in Culture 1 Comment

Memorial Day is an official Federal Holiday that is observed on the final Monday of May each year. The purpose of Memorial Day is to remember and to honor those who have died while serving in the armed forces of the United States. The holiday originated in the years following…

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Lowell Week in Review: May 25, 2014

May 25, 2014 by DickH Posted in City Council 1 Comment

Excuse my delay in posting but this morning I was at the Greater Lowell Veterans Council Memorial Day service – look for a blog post about it later today. Here are my observations of this week in Lowell politics: Customer Service Tuesday’s council meeting was pretty sedate until the final…

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Patronage

May 23, 2014 by DickH Posted in Politics Leave a Comment

The ongoing US District Court corruption trial of the former leaders of the state’s Department of Probation is getting some attention here in Lowell, partly because the case grew out of a Globe Spotlight expose so that newspaper is covering the trial extensively, and partly because several current and former…

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