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Here are real estate sales in Lowell from the past week: November 25, 2013 – Monday 68 Hovey Place for $287,500. Prior sale in 1999 for $247,000 83 Midland St for $155,000. Prior sale in 1980 172 Branch St for $258,000. Prior sale 2013 foreclosure 50 Columbia Rd for $334,900.…

Anyone who has walked down Kirk Street in Lowell has caught sight of the large green clock attached to the side of Lowell High School. It was the gift of the LHS classes of 1937, 1938 and 1939 and it was installed on June 23, 1937 by the O.B. McClintock…

Beginning on Monday, Waste Management will begin delivering our new 96 gallon recycling carts to prepare for the January 1, 2014 commencement of single stream recycling in Lowell. Single stream means that all recyclable items will go into the same container. These include glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, jugs…

In her 1982 book, “Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell,” historian Mary Blewett has a chapter about policies in the city of Lowell towards the poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here is part of what she wrote: Poverty was regarded, in almost all cases,…

Larry David’s Thanksgiving Special from Larry David

Photo by Tony Sampas

I found this interesting video of a parade in Dracut on YouTube. It was originally posted by MrHooper024

November 18, 2013 – Monday 220 Branch St for $380,000. Prior sale in 1972 137 Pine St #22 for $69,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $128,900 266 Butman Rd for $215,000. Prior sale in 1963 November 19, 2013 – Tuesday 73 Fifth Ave for $190,000. Prior sale 2013 foreclosure November…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fifty years ago today, the woman was not yet a journalist.  She was barely 24, a Wellesley College graduate, living in a thoroughly domestic life in a garden apartment in Norwood, getting used to days and weeks totally…

This Saturday from noon until 2 pm at the Eliot Presbyterian Church, 273 Summer Street, Lowell, Lura Smith will host a “Gospel Concert of Thanksgiving” featuring an all star cast of singers and musicians. The suggested donation is $20. All proceeds will be used to help the homeless and to…