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Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: The Council is back to weekly meetings so this week’s agenda is a bit lighter than those for the previous months. MOTION RESPONSES: Bicycle Safety: Motion (3/6/18) by Councilor K. Cirillo “Request City Manager provide a report for budgeted cost and…
Read More »Citywide Family Council Last Wednesday night several hundred people gathered at the Lowell Senior Center for the first meeting of the Citywide Family Council, the new name for the Citywide Parent Council which had ceased operation over the past five or ten years. This week’s event was hosted by the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is a lightning rod for antipathy to the Democratic Party. And she’s a great fundraising opportunity for Republicans, who are using her possible restoration as Speaker to rally the GOP to keep the…
Read More »The fall tours of historic Lowell Cemetery will take place this weekend. Both tours begin at the Knapp Avenue Gate (77 Knapp Ave, Lowell) and last about 90 minutes. They are free and require no advance registration. The tours (both cover the same content) are: Friday, Sept 28, 2018, at…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council meeting agenda features the First Reading of a major vote of the City Council: A Loan Order/Land Acquisition Bond to borrow $2,600,000 to pay costs to acquire, by purchase, eminent domain or otherwise, the following property [75…
Read More »Kinetic Sculpture Race For the third year in a row, yesterday’s Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race was a big success. A kinetic sculpture is an all-terrain, human-powered art sculpture engineered to race over roads, water, mud and sand. The race kicked off shortly after 10:30 am on Market Street with 11…
Read More »Welcoming Week Lowell Congratulations to the organizers of the first-ever Welcoming Week Lowell which kicked off Friday night with a parade of flags that originated at different points around downtown and converged on the front steps of City Hall for a celebration of the city’s immigrant heritage. Events continued yesterday…
Read More »This coming Saturday, September 15, 2018, at 3 pm, I will present a program on “How to Research the History of Your House.” The event is sponsored by the Tyngsborough-Dunstable Historical Society and will be held at the Little Red Schoolhouse which is at 198 Kendall Road (Rte 113) in…
Read More »This evening at 6 pm I’ll present a seminar on the Massachusetts Declaration of Homestead at the Cameron Senior Center, 20 Pleasant Street, Westford. The event is free and open to the public. Recording a Declaration of Homestead at the Registry of Deeds protects your home from creditors. Tonight I’ll…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: With the end of summer, the City Council will pretty soon return to its weekly meeting schedule. This week agenda has a number of reports as well as replies to a number of motions. The City Auditor, Bryan Barry, has a…
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