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…
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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…
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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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City Election Voters opted to stay the course on Tuesday, reelecting all incumbents on the ballot including eight city councilors and two school committee members. Even those elected already had connections with city government: Jim Leary, the new city councilor, was an incumbent school committee member; three of the four…
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Some facts about last week’s city of Lowell election: Registered Voters in Lowell: 59,265 Number who voted on Tuesday; 10,714 Turnout percent: 18.1% Average council votes cast per ballot: 6.0 Average school committee votes per ballot: 3.7 Precinct with highest per ballot CC vote: 9-1 (6.8 votes) Precinct with lowest…
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The Lowell Sun reported yesterday on its website that the American Textile History Museum at Dutton Street in Lowell will close “temporarily” on January 1, 2016 due to “ongoing serious financial constraints.” As yet, the Museum has nothing about this on its website. It the ATHM a casualty of Dutton…
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This past Tuesday, 10,714 of the 59,265 registered voters in Lowell voted in the city election. That’s a turnout percentage of 18%, but voter participation was not spread evenly across the city. Instead, just a few sections of the city yielded the bulk of all votes. For electoral purposes, Lowell…
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Governor Charlie Baker and Lt Governor Karyn Polito were in Lowell yesterday. At 3pm they visited the Hamilton Canal District for a press conference at which they announced two big grants of state money to city projects. The first was a $4.7 million “Mass Works” grant that will be used…
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Yesterday was a good day for incumbents in Lowell. Every one of them who was on the ballot for reelection was successful. I’m not sure anyone was surprised by that although some, especially the council challengers and their closest supporters, may have hoped otherwise. Of the 59,265 people registered to…
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Here are the unofficial totals for this year’s city election, direct from City Hall: City Council 1. Rita Mercier – 6228 2. Rodney Elliott – 5420 3. Edward Kennedy – 4797 4. John Leahy – 4566 5. Bill Samaras – 4540 6. Jim Milinazzo – 4434 7. Dan Rourke –…
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