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Here are the property sales that occurred in Lowell last week: October 28, 2013 – Monday 309 Aiken Ave for $145,425. Prior sale 2011 foreclosure 50 Weed St for $104,500. Last sale in 1965 77 Dinsmore St for $239,000. Last sale in 1963 October 29, 2013 – Tuesday 280 Fairmount…

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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When my husband and I visited the Terezin  [also known as Theresienstadt] concentration camp outside of Prague in 1990, we could only begin to imagine the horrors the Nazis visited upon the political prisoners and Jews housed there.  The barracks where human beings…

A reader brought to my attention a survey that’s just been launched on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation website. The DOT explanation of the survey is MassDOT Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Richard A. Davey today announced release of the MassDOT Highway Division User Satisfaction Survey. The online survey seeks…

Last Wednesday the founder of this blog Dick Howe – widely known these days as the  “blog father” – was honored by Community Teamwork at the 2013 Community Action Awards ~ Special Tribute to Innovative Communicators. CTI Board President Germaine Vigeant-Trudel offered these words about Dick Howe as she presented the…

The East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group has scheduled the following meetings: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 7 pm Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7 pm All meetings take place at the McAvinnue School at 131 Mammoth Road. Topics to be discussed are neighborhood issues and planning for the 2nd Annual Franco-American…

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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Don’t believe the hype: Ted Cruz and Tea Partiers weren’t big losers. Most other people were. The recent partial shut-down and near default of the US government led by rogue  deficit hawks cost American taxpayers at least $24…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston mayoral candidates Marty Walsh and John Connolly met in their first debate Tuesday and discussed issues to a draw. No surprise.  There’s little that separates them on matters of policy.  Rep. Walsh did what he had to…