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The City Seal – another variant
Tony Sampas found another version of the city’s official seal, this one on the Lowell Emergency Management bus.
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The excavation in the Acre
I’ve not yet been to Ireland but my understanding is the country does not often – or ever – see warm and humid weather of the type we are experiencing here this week. Our visiting Irish archaeologists are showing no signs of curtailing their effort on the front lawn of…
Read More »Heat Wave
When you’re an early riser, nature often misleads you when making weather observations. At 5 am in mid-summer the sun has yet to rise and except on the most tropically humid days, the air seems fresh and invigorating. Once the sun peeks over the horizon, however, things change rapidly. The…
Read More »Electronic Recording of Real Estate Documents
The below is a cross-post of something I wrote about electronic recording of real estate documents on the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds blog, LowellDeeds. While electronic recording is used only by those in the real estate business, it represents an example of technology changing the way something has been…
Read More »New subdivision proposed for Westview Road
Tonight I attended an informational meeting hosted by David Daly of Daly General Contracting for the benefit of the residents of Westview Road (which runs off of Pine Street and along the first fairway of Mount Pleasant Golf Course). Mr. Daly proposes building 11 new houses at the end of…
Read More »The Irish are coming – and need your support
History is not a set story inscribed on stone tablets that last forever. Instead, history is a series of inferences that are based on evidence. As new evidence is discovered, those inferences change and so history is constantly evolving. An amazing example of that process has been taking place right…
Read More »Team Micky Ward Charities Golf Classic
The 5th annual Team Micky Ward Charities golf classic will be held this year on Monday, August 13, 2012 at Andover’s Indian Ridge Country Club with a 1 pm shotgun start. Here’s a description of the Charity’s mission: Team Micky Ward Charities Is a non-profit charitable organization that provides financial…
Read More »Property Taxes
In my weekly appearance on WCAP yesterday morning, Ted Panos asked me about the recent flap about tax bills in Lowell. After making a concerted, and largely successful, effort to keep the city’s budget for FY13 from rising, some were surprised to receive their quarterly tax bills last week and…
Read More »Ernest Borgnine, RIP
[youtube]UhhsVZozmF0[/youtube] Actor Ernest Borgnine died on Sunday at age 95. His obituary in the New York Times thoroughly reviews his career and the many movie roles he played. To me, however, he will always be Lt Cdr Quinton McHale, the skipper of PT-73. What was it about the early 1960s…
Read More »Red Sox at All-Star break: Wait ’till next year
I watched about a dozen innings combined through the just-completed weekend series between the Yankees and Red Sox from Fenway Park. Had it not been for the presence of Derek Jeter in the opposing lineup, I would have guessed at first that I was watching the Pawtucket Red Sox, not…
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