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The shame of the result in the court case about the future of the Pawtucket Falls Dam is the lack of trade-off and balancing of interests in the court’s decision. Enel is already generating green energy and making money on the hydro-power system, otherwise they would not be operating in…
Read More »People are discussing what’s going to happen with transportation improvements on the Thorndike-Dutton streets corridor because of what they will mean for access to and from the Gallagher transit terminal, around South Common, over to Cambodia Town and Western Avenue Studios, through the Hamilton Canal District, and into the core…
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Lowell: The Hottest Town in Massachusetts? It is for volume of home sales, at least according to CBS Boston. Citing a report from Waltham-based McGeough Lamacchia Realty Inc., CBS Boston had Lowell with a 9.5% increase in home sales from 2013 to 2014 followed by Scituate (9.3), Waltham (8.9), Centerville…
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley ~ Rumors and Rumblings… Maybe people need a distraction from the weather, whatever the cause – rumors and rumblings are reverberating around the Merrimack Valley. Soft rumblings in the Town of TEWKSBURY… will Scott Wilson run for reelection for the Board of Selectmen? papers were pulled…
Read More »The KhmerPost USA, Lowell’s Cambodian language newspaper which circulates up and down the East Coast, held another of its Press Club events today at Lowell Telecommunications Corp. Roger Pin, a co-publisher of the paper, explained that he began these Press Clubs back in 1994 when he was the President of…
Read More »The new issue of the biannual events tabloid is out at UMass Lowell. To see what’s coming, check this link. Highlights include a benefit concert by pop star Melissa Manchester, an Oscar Wilde play, a reading by a poet recently nominated for a National Book Award, a production by the…
Read More »Next Sunday, February 8 at 2 pm at the Loading Dock Gallery, Maxine Farkas will give a talk on the historical geography of Western Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public. Here’s a description of the event that Maxine has posted on Faceook: I will be offering…
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Snow Removal Politically it was a quiet week in Lowell due to the blizzard that dumped 33 inches of snow on top of us. Another significant snowfall is about to hit us. Tim Kelly on NECN just said the snow should begin here in Lowell by 5 am and continue…
Read More »With two national parks – Minuteman National Park and Lowell National Historical Park – in her Third District – getting this appointment as the highest ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands is a coup for Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and for her constituents. As announced today by…
Read More »In April 1998, UMass Lowell hosted what I believe was the first public forum to discuss what the web could or would do in the city. The event was billed as a town meeting and featured guest speakers, a panel discussion, a demonstration of a new online cultural magazine called…
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