The following article by James Ostis appeared in this week’s edition of Khmer Post USA Culture meets Creativity with Flying Orb Productions By James Ostis It started with book covers. Around 2005, Lowell photographer Jim Higgins needed models to appear in cover images he was shooting for various publications. A…
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City Manager Selection Process At noontime on Monday Bernie Lynch walked out of Lowell City Hall and ended his seven plus year tenure as Lowell City Manager. At 12:01 the Michael Geary administration began. The will be short-lived because Geary did not apply for the position on a permanent basis…
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Here are real estate sales in Lowell for the past week: March 10, 2014 – Monday 70 Fourth Ave for $50,000. Title acquired from tax taking 42 Wellesley Ave for $290,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $289,000 March 11, 2014 – Tuesday 1021 Middlesex St Unit 2 for $155,000. Prior…
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Back on March 16, 2009, I did a blog post entitled “Red or Gray?” It got quite a few comments. Here’s the original post plus some of the comments. Hopefully more comments (and recipes) will be added in 2014: By Dick on March 16, 2009 Even though corned beef is…
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This coming Sunday, March 16, 2014, at 10 a.m., I’ll be giving a talk about Lowell in the Civil War at UnchARTed Gallery at 66 Merrimack Street in Lowell (right next to Edible Arrangements at the corner of Merrimack and Central). The event is in conjunction of an exhibition of…
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The council held a special meeting tonight to set the procedure and dates for interviewing candidates for city manager and auditor. Mayor Elliott opens the meeting by saying that the purpose of the public hearing is to discuss traits and characteristics of next city manager Deb Chause, Executive Director of…
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The first meeting of the Michael Geary administration. Citation to Sean Harmon for organizing the restoration of the City Council Chambers. Lowell High Headmaster Brian Martin addresses the city council on efforts to restore the Kirk Street clock. Six LHS students working on the project are present. The clock was…
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Back in November at the annual meeting of Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, I had the opportunity to meet Gary Bergeron who won the LTC 2013 Innovator award for his documentary BASTA which was entirely produced at LTC. Gary is a victim of the clergy abuse scandal and BASTA documents his journey…
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Irish Cultural Week kicked off yesterday with a mass at St. Patrick Church followed by a parade to City Hall for the raising of the Irish flag and the laying of a wreath at the Irish monument on Cardinal O’Connell Parkway (above). Events continue this week with a showing of…
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The week began with a special City Council meeting on Monday to establish the procedure for choosing a city manager and a city auditor now that all the applications are in. For city manager, the councilors had until Friday, March 7 to submit the names of their five “finalists” to…
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