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Governor Patrick Coming to Lowell Governor Deval Patrick will be in Lowell this coming Tuesday, October 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the end of Jackson Street to provide an update on the $15 million state-funded project to re-design the Lord Overpass. Besides easing that traffic bottleneck the Overpass work will…
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Read More »My book “Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park” begins with a chapter that offers the reader historical background for the late 20th-century story about to be told. I wanted to provide context for readers unfamiliar with Lowell and to set the stage for the enormous…
Read More »Belanger for Baker The very close race for governor of Massachusetts between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker landed in Lowell earlier in the week when Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito visited the city. She was escorted through the Hamilton Canal District by City Councilor Corey Belanger…
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Read More »Cadets from the UMass Lowell Air Force and Army ROTC detachments joined members of the Greater Lowell Veterans Council, local elected officials, representatives of the UMass Lowell Office of Veterans Affairs and family members of a Lowell Tech student killed in action during World War Two to dedicate the new…
Read More »For those able to attend the Lowell Plan’s annual breakfast yesterday at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, a person would have to be pretty hard-hearted not to have come away feeling better about the city and more optimistic about what’s over the wooded horizon. The 300 people in…
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Read More »About eighteen months ago I wrote about a special permit request on the docket for the Lowell Planning Board for the property at 658 Andover Street – the historic-minded would know it as the Worcester House. The plan to put at least 5 homes and possibly a “road” into the…
Read More »Don’t miss the final Lowell Cemetery tours of 2014: today at 1 pm and tomorrow at 10 am. Both begin at the Knapp Avenue entrance right behind Shedd Park. Free and no registration required.
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