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What follows is another excerpt from Charlie Gargiulo’s memoir “Farewell, Little Canada,” in which he describes growing up in tumultuous times in the mostly French Canadian-American neighborhood that once existed close to the big bend in the Merrimack River. This is the second excerpt published on this blog, which we…
Read More »Communications from City Manager (Most of these were reviewed in Sunday’s Week in Review blog post. Below are comments beyond what was included in the printed reports to councilors, so were board appointments and resignations). Update on River Meadow Brook Trail. Manager Murphy said he met with Peter Gervais and…
Read More »Housing in Hamilton Canal District At this Tuesday’s city council meeting, the council will vote to authorize the city manager to execute a purchase and sales agreement with WinnDevelopment Company for Hamilton Canal District parcels 8 and 9, known respectively as 193 and 239 Jackson Street for $250,000. These are…
Read More »The Boston Globe yesterday in “A tale of two cities, and both of them are Lowell,” examined the competing views of what Lowell should look like moving into the future. The in-depth article, with quotes from former Mayor Bud Caulfield to recent Lowell High graduate Elmer Martinez, and many in…
Read More »Lowell School Committee vs City of Lowell The full name of the case is Lowell School Committee versus City of Lowell, by and through its City Manager and the Lowell City Council, Docket Number 1781CV02593. It was filed in Middlesex Superior Court on August 31, 2017, and was assigned to…
Read More »MSBA Defers Lowell High Decision The Massachusetts School Building Authority’s Board of Directors took up the Lowell High School project on Wednesday. The relevant item on the agenda said “recommendation for preferred schematic design for the city of Attleboro, the city of Fall River, the town of Harvard, the city…
Read More »Update on New Lowell High School On Wednesday, the School Committee voted to hire an outside law firm to pursue a judicial answer to the question of who has the legal authority to select the site of a new or renovated high school, the city council or the school committee.…
Read More »Yesterday the square at Nesmith and Chestnut Streets ( at the north end of Kittredge Park) was dedication by the City of Lowell in honor of WWII Navy aviator ~ Navy Cross, Silver Star and Air Medal with three stars recipient ~ James W. Sweeney. Before family, friends, Mayor Kennedy,…
Read More »Congressional Election The big news this week – if you set aside the possibility of a nuclear exchange between North Korea and the United States – was the announcement by Niki Tsongas that she would not seek reelection to Congress in 2018. After Tsongas released her news this past Tuesday,…
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