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Middlesex Superior Courthouse at 360 Gorham Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photo by Tony Sampas.
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Legendary Locals of Lowell in stores now
Legendary Locals of Lowell is now available locally at Guy Lefebvre’s Lowell Gallery at 14 Jackson Street. Just around the corner from Central Street, Lowell Gallery is a treasure trove of historic images and artifacts of Lowell as well as a great place to get something framed. Plenty of convenient…
Read More »Franco American School spring auction
Lowell’s Franco American School will hold its annual spring auction this year on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7 pm at Mt Pleasant Golf Club (99 Staples Street in Lowell). The theme this year is a Chocolate Festival which is enough by itself to get me to attend. In addition…
Read More »Cable TV hearings at City Hall
Tonight (March 13) at 6:30 and again on April 10 at 6:30 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber, the city of Lowell will hold public hearings on the state of cable TV service in Lowell. This is a once-every-five-years important opportunity for you to share your views on cable…
Read More »Acre History forum Thursday night
Thursday March 13, 2013 at 7:00 PM Federal Building – Middlesex Community College, 50 Kearney Square, Lowell The main speaker at this year’s forum on the history of the Irish in the Acre will be Brian Mitchell, the author of “The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821–1861” and other…
Read More »Legendary Locals of Lowell arrives
Returning home yesterday I found Ivy guarding the eight boxes of books that had been delivered by Fedex earlier in the day. Legendary Locals of Lowell has arrived! The first formal event will be next Monday, March 18, at 7pm at the Pollard Memorial Library. A representative of Arcadia Publishing…
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Read More »UMass Lowell/GSE Professor James H. Nehring Selected for U.K. Fulbright Award
As a Lowell State College/UMass Lowell Alum and a member of the Graduate School of Education Advisory Board, I’m really pleased to offer kudos and congratulations to James H. Nehring, UMass Lowell/Graduate School of Education Associate Professor in Leadership in Schooling. Professor Nehring has been selected as the 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar for…
Read More »March 7, 1876 ~ Bell Granted Telephone Patent ~ The Lowell Connection
March 7, 2013
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MassMoments reminds us that on this day March 7, 1876, Scotland-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for a device that could transmit human speech over a wire – the telephone. Bell’s patents and the success of the Bell Telephone Company, which he established in 1877, made the young…
Read More »The Planning Board and Neighborhood Opposition
Arriving home from my own meeting sometime after 9 last night, I glanced at my Twitter feed and was surprised to learn that the Lowell Planning Board was still debating the merits of the proposed charter school on outer Middlesex Street just past the Rourke Bridge. I turned on my…
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