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Lawyers will give their closing arguments today in Suffolk Superior Court in the case of the Commonwealth v Tim Cahill. The former state treasurer is charged with using state funds to run TV ads intended to boost his 2010 campaign for governor. While it may have been wrong to pay…
Read More »From the office of Lowell Mayor Patrick O. Murphy: Starting on Monday December 3, every pound of non-perishable food you bring to the Mayor’s Office (Room 50 on the 2ndFloor of City Hall) will earn you a raffle ticket entering you into a drawing for two tickets to the New…
Read More »Last evening I joined more than 30 others at the LRTA Maintenance Facility conference room at 100 Hale Street to hear the latest thinking from the city’s Planning Department and the various urban planners (Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge) and EPA officials who have been working on a master plan for…
Read More »New England Patriots wide receiver Brandon Lloyd visited Lowell High School to speak with students about the importance of financial planning. His visit was sponsored by National Financial Educators Council, Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union and Yahoo, which sent a camera crew to film his visit (it should be on the…
Read More »Paul posted this video from the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council on Facebook earlier today. I hadn’t seen the video, which was uploaded to YouTube by the Council back in September: [youtube]NURt5MO2s0c[/youtube]
Read More »From the UMass Lowell website: [youtube]Ldl81SoKvqc[/youtube]
Read More »Here’s some video from last night’s City of Lights parade. It features the Lowell High marching band, Lowell High cheerleaders and JROTC, and the UMass Lowell marching band. [youtube]KoBh_MTFoMU[/youtube]
Read More »Renae Lias Claffey, familiar to many in the Lowell community, has an Op-Ed piece in today’s Nashua Telegraph in which she analyzes the presidential election just past. Read her thoughts here.
Read More »Downtown Lowell was alive this afternoon as hundreds of people traveled to the five establishments that were participating the this year’s Hot Chocolate Competition. At each place, you exchanged a quarter for a 4-ounce Dixie cup filled with hot chocolate. One was served plain, another gave you a choice of…
Read More »In the film “Lincoln,” during the scene in which the roll is being called for votes for and against the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery, I couldn’t help wondering who was representing Lowell in the US Congress at that moment. According to the ever-useful “Cotton Was King”…
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