Lowell

Lowell a Stop on Elizabeth Warren’s “Starting With People” Tour

December 1, 2012 by Marie Posted in Lowell, Politics, Election 2012 2 Comments

Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren visited Lowell very early-on in her campaign. Here she speaks to a packed auditorium in Lowell’s Butler School in 2011.   From Roger Lau: “The campaign may be over, but Elizabeth’s real work of helping working families across Massachusetts is just getting started. Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (doesn’t it…

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‘Yellowstone and Lowell’

December 1, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell 1 Comment

Some of the readers of this blog know that for the past year I have been writing a book about the origin and impact of Lowell’s national park. Below is a “sidebar” piece that will appear in the “Making the Park” chapter. The manuscript is nearly complete, and Lowell National Historical Park will…

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Tanner Street Community Meeting

November 30, 2012 by DickH Posted in Current Events, Lowell 2 Comments

Last evening I joined more than 30 others at the LRTA Maintenance Facility conference room at 100 Hale Street to hear the latest thinking from the city’s Planning Department and the various urban planners (Crosby, Schlessinger & Smallridge) and EPA officials who have been working on a master plan for…

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Campaign Residue

November 29, 2012 by DickH Posted in Lowell, Politics 1 Comment

Thanks to Judy Davidson of the East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group for sending along the above 2012 Presidential campaign relic photograph which she captured during a downtown walk. (By the way, reader photographs are always welcome so please send them along). Then early this morning during a neighborhood walk, I noticed…

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