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While other candidates for city council and school committee were holding signs and campaigning at the entrance to Cawley Stadium for Friday’s Lowell High vs Dracut High football game (won by Lowell, 35 to 12), I found incumbent city councilor John Leahy busy under the stands helping the Friends of…
Read More »September 9, 2013 – Monday 30 Jacques St for $79,000. Prior sale in 1995 for $83,000 216 Wentworth Ave for $311,000. Prior sale in 2013 for $248,000 September 10, 2013 – Tuesday 52 Lawrence Dr #M506 for $230,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $234,500 34 Newhall St #401 for $108,000.…
Read More »Stirred up in Lowell in 1876, Moxie was the first mass-manufactured soft drink in the U.S. The Lowell Heritage Partnership will present an expert panel discussion about the City of Lowell’s innovative past, present and future on Wed., Sept. 25 at 6 pm at the Merrimack Valley Sandbox in Wannalancit Mills. Speakers…
Read More »“Rooftops from Wilder Street Bridge” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net The original image is a printed lino-cut of a view looking northeast toward the gas storage tanks that once stood off School Street and farther to the top of City Hall.
Read More »This is the eighth in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is eleventh place finisher John Leahy, who joined the council when third…
Read More »Sixty years ago ~ on this day September 12, 1953, Congresssman John Fitzgerald Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at a ceremony held in St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. We visited St. Mary’s Church last year, walked through the garden and the church interior. It’s a beautiful, traditional Catholic Church. For that Lowell…
Read More »This is the seventh in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is ninth place finisher Joe Mendonca. The information presented below is organized…
Read More »This is the sixth in a series of posts showing some historical data from the 2011 city election. Each post shows how one candidate on the ballot in the 2013 city election performed in the 2011 election. Here is eighth place finisher Edward Kennedy. The information presented below is organized…
Read More »‘Middlesex & Wood Streets” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 [drawing, 2005] See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »Four of the city of Lowell’s polling places have changed locations in time for the September 24, 2013 preliminary election. All three precincts in Ward 2 which formerly voted at the Masonic Temple on Arcand Drive will now vote at the Tsongas Center (f/k/a Tsongas Arena) on Martin Luther King…
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