Congratulations to University of Massachusetts Lowell for being ranked by Business Insider as the most underrated college in America. To obtain these rankings, Business Insider plotted U.S. News’ ranking of the best colleges against PayScale’s mid-career salary rank. Here’s what was said about UML (with the full report HERE): Located…
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The city’s newest park was officially dedicated tonight. Named for the founder of the Enterprise Bank & Trust Company, George L. Duncan Park sits alongside the bank’s main branch at the corner of Merrimack and Shattuck Streets. More of a public art installation than a greenspace, the Park was designed…
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If you’ve spent any time at Lowell’s Gallagher Terminal, you have undoubtedly noticed the large brick smokestack with the name “HOOD” painted on it towering over the adjacent brick building. Neither the name nor the building have anything to do with Hood’s Dairy. Instead, they mark what was once the…
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Congratulations to the organizers of today’s Lowell African Festival for another wonderful event. After a long string of nasty weather, they could not have had a better day for the festival weather-wise. I stopped by late this afternoon and found a big crowd enjoying the steady stream of live music…
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I bumped into the always interesting Jerry Bisantz today and asked him to send me info about his upcoming Image Theater event. Please consider attending. Three original short plays and three short films will be presented by Lowell’s Image Theater on Friday, June 21st upstairs at The Old Court Pub…
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I don’t know if the program was un-partisan, bipartisan, non-partisan, or post-partisan, but last night’s uplifting presentation by Former First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna Bush Hager left me feeling that Mrs. Bush has a lot of good work left to do in what she called “the afterlife”…
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Real estate sales in the city during this past week: June 10, 2013 (Monday) 40 Sayles St for $185,000 799 Chelmsford St for $231,700 581 Lakeview Ave for $150,000 June 11, 2013 (Tuesday) 309 Lawrence St fro $185,000 23 Read St for $180,000 June 12, 2013 (Wednesday) 45 Jewett St…
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Last night was a busy one for the politically inclined in Lowell with State Senator Eileen Donoghue hosting an event at Cobblestones, City Councilor Bill Martin hosting another at Long Meadow, and Council candidate Derek Mitchell having a campaign kick-off at the Club Passe-Temps on Moody Street. Those trying to…
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There were a couple of notable events in the Lowell real estate world yesterday. First, the apartment building complex known as Cabot Crossing on Bowden Street in Swede Village/South Lowell sold for $20,250,000. Second, the city of Lowell recorded 227 tax takings for unpaid FY2012 property taxes. In the past,…
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