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Here are real estate sales in Lowell from the past week: November 25, 2013 – Monday 68 Hovey Place for $287,500. Prior sale in 1999 for $247,000 83 Midland St for $155,000. Prior sale in 1980 172 Branch St for $258,000. Prior sale 2013 foreclosure 50 Columbia Rd for $334,900.…
Read More »Anyone who has walked down Kirk Street in Lowell has caught sight of the large green clock attached to the side of Lowell High School. It was the gift of the LHS classes of 1937, 1938 and 1939 and it was installed on June 23, 1937 by the O.B. McClintock…
Read More »Beginning on Monday, Waste Management will begin delivering our new 96 gallon recycling carts to prepare for the January 1, 2014 commencement of single stream recycling in Lowell. Single stream means that all recyclable items will go into the same container. These include glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, jugs…
Read More »In her 1982 book, “Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell,” historian Mary Blewett has a chapter about policies in the city of Lowell towards the poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here is part of what she wrote: Poverty was regarded, in almost all cases,…
Read More »In yesterday’s Lowell Week in Review blog post I wrote this about the Jerathmell Bowers House: Constructed in 1673 at what is now the corner of Westford and Wood Streets in Lowell, the Jerathmell Bowers House is said to be the oldest structure in the city. There has been a…
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Read More »Save the date: The First Annual Lowell Social Media Conference Saturday, December 7, 2013 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Lowell Telecommunications Corp 246 Market St, Lowell Topics include: • Taking the temperature of Lowell’s blogosphere • Best practices for Tweets & short form video • Social media in the…
Read More »Public Safety – I still believe that public safety was the decisive issue in this year’s city council election. Three big public safety related things happened this week. First, City Manager Lynch appointed Bill Taylor to be the new Superintendent of the Lowell Police Department. Jen Myers on the Room…
Read More »November 18, 2013 – Monday 220 Branch St for $380,000. Prior sale in 1972 137 Pine St #22 for $69,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $128,900 266 Butman Rd for $215,000. Prior sale in 1963 November 19, 2013 – Tuesday 73 Fifth Ave for $190,000. Prior sale 2013 foreclosure November…
Read More »The Lowell Election Commission met in the Mayor’s Reception Room on Thursday, November 22, 2013. The first item on the agenda was a debrief on the November 5 election. The only reported glitch involved one of the 20 handicap voting machines. While it had been unboxed, it was not started…
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