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It was a busy week in Lowell, perhaps because not much gets scheduled during the upcoming week, the week of Thanksgiving (although if you’re like me, you have a hard time believing that Thanksgiving is just four days away). Lord Overpass Meeting More than 100 people attended the Monday night…
Read More »Vote to appoint a City Auditor. Councilor Leahy instead moves to repost the position. Councilor Belanger says he supports the motion but says we should emphasize that in addition to the stated salary, it includes a $4500 stipend for being on the retirement board. Councilor Kennedy concurs with these suggestions…
Read More »Last evening (November 16, 2015), the city of Lowell’s Department of Planning and Development held a public meeting at the Senior Center on the Lord Overpass Redevelopment project. More than 100 residents attended. The meeting opened with remarks by City Manager Kevin Murphy, State Senator Eileen Donoghue, and State Representative…
Read More »6 pm at the Lowell Senior Center. Public meeting on the future of the Lord Overpass and vicinity. Please attend.
Read More »From the UMass Lowell University Relations Office: “UMass Lowell will host an open public forum on how to improve the Pawtucket Street corridor — which connects the university campuses and their neighborhoods — on Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Moloney Hall at University Crossing, 220 Pawtucket…
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Lord Overpass Public Meeting Tomorrow night at 6 pm at the Senior Center at Broadway and Fletcher, the Lowell Department of Planning and Development will hold a public meeting on the Lord Overpass renovation project. The consultants who are designing the new version of the Overpass will be on hand…
Read More »For those of you interested in who will become Mayor of Lowell for the next two years, here is some history of past Mayoral elections: 1966 – Monday, January 3 – Edward Early – elected unanimously on the first ballot. Sam Pollard, Bob Maguire, John Cox, Richard Howe, Tom Crowley,…
Read More »My view from the visitor’s gallery/EM Kennedy Institute for the US Senate A few thoughts about Marty Meehan’s rise from a Lowell neighborhood kid to becoming President of the University of Massachusetts… I’ve known Marty since he was fifteen years old … while we haven’t always run in the…
Read More »Genealogist Walter Hickey has long wanted and worked hard for years to have these Lowell Police Court Naturalization records available for informational and research purposes. In partnership with LowellIrish, the links to search these records are now available on-line. Along with his research in Lowell Irish History, the history of…
Read More »Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate consulting firm, previously was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He shares the following essay: This is another entry in a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things including…
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