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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 »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 »From WIKIPEDIA: The Lowell Offering was a monthly periodical collected contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female textile workers (young women [age 15-35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American industrial revolution. It began in 1840 and lasted until 1845. The Offering was initially organized in 1840 by the Reverend Abel…
Read More »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 »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 »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 »“Chelmsford Street Kitchen” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 (original drawing, 2004) See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Today’s New York Times. Page A-13. National section. Full-page ad. UMass Lowell Is Rising. There’s more to the ad, with quotes from Forbes, US News & World Report, PayScale, and Washington Post attesting to the momentum and results at UMass Lowell as a result of recent growth, expansion, and rising…
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