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Announcing the 1st Annual Lowell Social Media Conference
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 »Lowell Week in Review, October 27, 2013
The biggest development this week will come as a surprise to most: it’s the launching of a new blog in the city. Learning Lowell is written by two young people, Chris and Aurora, who recently moved to Lowell. They are making a determined and enthusiastic effort to learn Lowell’s history,…
Read More »MassDOT transportation survey
A reader brought to my attention a survey that’s just been launched on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation website. The DOT explanation of the survey is MassDOT Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Richard A. Davey today announced release of the MassDOT Highway Division User Satisfaction Survey. The online survey seeks…
Read More »“Women in local politics” by Nancy Greene
Nancy Greene, a Lowellian who lived elsewhere but who recently moved back to the city, contributes another essay, this one about an event for women candidates that was held last weekend at the 119 Gallery. Here’s Nancy’s report: Last Saturday, October 19th, I attended Stacie Hargis’ Meet-Up at the 119…
Read More »Concession contract awarded for Lowell Memorial Auditorium
And the winner is . . . the Julian Lenzi Hospitality Group Inc. which is a combination of Lenzi’s Catering and RTJ Concessions, Inc. A selection committee of city officials and auditorium trustees has made the selection and the parties have agreed to a 3 year contract which provides, among…
Read More »Lowell real estate for week of Oct 21, 2013
Here are real estate sales in Lowell for the past week. For several months now there’s been a clearly discernible trend of most sales following into one of three loosely defined categories. First are sales of properties that have been owned by the same person or family for several decades.…
Read More »Light up your library on November 2
Thanks to Marianne Gries of the trustees of the Pollard Library for sharing the below information about this event. I was hoping you could post some information on your blog about the an event that is going to take place at the Pollard Library on Saturday, November 2nd. Light Up…
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Read More »Upcoming East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group Meetings
The East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group has scheduled the following meetings: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 7 pm Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7 pm All meetings take place at the McAvinnue School at 131 Mammoth Road. Topics to be discussed are neighborhood issues and planning for the 2nd Annual Franco-American…
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