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Date: February 14, 2019 (Postponed from February 12, 2019) ROLL CALL: Mayor Samaras absent. Councilor Mercier presiding. [Item taken out of order] Vote-Authorize Submission of Schematic Design to MSBA. Presentation by architects/engineers of new/rehabbed Lowell High. The 1922 building will be a “like new” renovation. Emphasizes that while it is…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council agenda is relatively light on Administrative items but heavy with City Council motions. Executive Session Minutes: For the second time this year, “minutes” from Executive Session have been released. Besides telling us who was present and absent,…
Read More »Lowell Quarter Launch Event There are certain public events that help define Lowell. Some, like the first time the National Folk Festival was in Lowell or the first game played by the Lowell Spinners baseball team, you expect to be memorable. Others sneak up on you. That’s what happened Wednesday…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on politics and current events this week: Almost every week, City Manage Eileen Donoghue bring forth appointments of Lowell residents to various boards and commissions. Last April, responding to a Council motion, the Administration presented a comprehensive list of all the members on the Boards…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A scorpion asks a frog to take it across the river. The frog fears the scorpion will sting him. The scorpion talks a good line, saying that, if he did sting the frog, they’d both drown. So, in…
Read More »Executive Session February 5, 2019 at 5:00 PM Executive Session – Regarding matter of litigation, namely Huot et al v. City of Lowell, public discussion of which could have a detrimental effect on the City’s position. ADJOURNMENT Regular Meeting February 5, 2019 at 6:30 PM ROLL CALL – all present…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Vox.com As the polar vortex is about to recede, for now, we’re still stupefied by our esteemed President. He, who considers himself the smartest man in the world, recently tweeted, “What the hell is going on with…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting: MOTION RESPONSES Inspection of City Pedestrian Signs Motion (1/15/19) by Councilor K. Cirillo and E. Kenney “Request City Manager have the proper department provide the City Council with a list of all City-owned and state-owned pedestrian crossing signs inspect all City owned…
Read More »Lowell Quarter Release Excitement is building for Wednesday’s launch of the new Lowell quarter. The event begins at 10am (on February 6, 2019) at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium which will be packed with school children and members of the community. Once the formal festivities are over, you can cash in…
Read More »Our far-flung correspondent Down East in Maine sent us a new poem. Tom Sexton of Lowell and Alaska and Maine reports that he gave a poetry reading to a capacity audience at his Atlantic Coast-base in Eastport, the youngest attendee checking in at about 60 years old. I say, You…
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