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PET PIGS We’ll start on a light note with the prospective Lowell resident who petitioned the city council Tuesday night to amend city ordinances to allow the keeping of miniature pigs as household pets. The petitioner currently lives in Arlington and owns a female miniature pig named Bacon. The woman…
Read More »The following sales occurred in Lowell during the past week: May 5, 2014 – Monday 59-61 Bachman St for $241,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $225,000 135 Hampshire St for $153,000. Prior sale in 2013 for $135,000 1007-1011 Central St for $165,000. Prior sale in 1979 259 South St for…
Read More »What do you know, this is Bay State Bike Week. Julia Hans, a member of the city’s Green Building Commission did a blog post on her “Green Sense” blog about the significance of the week. Here’s some of what she wrote: Bay State Bike Week begins this weekend and runs…
Read More »Jay Mason, Chair of the Lowell Green Building Commission and a member of 350MA of Greater Lowell, shared the following observations about the mainstream media’s coverage of climate change this week: This past Wednesday, May 7th the Boston Globe carried a story on climate change. This is not new –…
Read More »Photos by Tony Sampas. The tour will be repeated on Friday, May 16 at 1 pm and on Saturday, May 17 at 10 am, both starting at the Lawrence Street Gate.
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Read More »Governor Deval Patrick officially proclaimed the month of May to be Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at a celebration in Lowell tonight. Held at the Sunny Da Restaurant and sponsored by the Governor’s Asian American Commission/Advisory Council and Lowell’s Southeast Asian community, the…
Read More »The Charles J. Hoff Alumni Scholarship Center at 1 Perkins St., Lowell. Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »I had another commitment earlier tonight so Jack Moynihan kindly covered the first 40 minutes of the meeting until I was able to get online. Thanks Jack! Meeting called to order at 6:35 by Mayor Elliot Councilor Samaras asked for a moment of silence for a deceased teacher whose name…
Read More »Some online followers of Lowell politics have created a drinking game called “double poles.” Every time a city councilor at a city council meeting utters the words “double poles” (as in two telephone poles standing side-by-side) participants in the game take a drink of an adult beverage. It’s a joke,…
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