Lowell

Lowell High Tour tomorrow

Tomorrow – Saturday, June 20, 2015 – is the Inside Lowell High School guided tour, part of the Lowell Walks summertime series.  Meet at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street at 10 am to meet our tour guide, Lowell High Headmaster Brian Martin.  The tour is free…

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Lowell Week in Review: June 14, 2015

Lowell Walks Thanks to Paul Marion and Rosemary Noon for the lively and insightful stories they shared during yesterday’s Lowell Walk.  Thanks also to the 110+ people who participated which is up substantially from the 81 who attended last week’s inaugural walk on historic preservation.  Today’s tour was on Lowell’s…

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Lowell Walks this Saturday: Public Art

This coming Saturday is the second edition of our Lowell Walks summertime guided walking tours of downtown Lowell. Beginning at 10 am at the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street, the tour is free, requires no advance registration, and will be conducted rain or shine. This week’s tour…

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Lowell Week in Review: June 7, 2015

Lowell Walks kicked off yesterday morning with 81 people gathering at the National Park Visitor Center to be led around downtown by Fred Faust on the Preservation Success Stories tour.  Faust, who is the President of The Edge Group, a real estate consulting firm, and was an assistant to US…

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Enel Bridge Deal – Another View

In my Week in Review column last week I endorsed in principal the proposed deal whereby the city would acquire ownership of eight bridges that are now owned by Enel.  A friend writing under the pseudonym Hans Hammermill left a thoughtful comment on that post suggesting that the city should…

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