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To learn more about the various reports and motion responses on tonight’s agenda, check out Mimi Parseghian’s City Council Preview from yesterday. Roll Call: Mayor Samaras (flu) and Councilor Conway (knee surgery) absent. Councilor Nuon chairs the meeting. Councilor Mercier is sitting in Conway’s seat, not in her usual place.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Coming from Boston, you’d think we’d be used to crazy traffic and pedestrian behavior. Boston is an Eden compared to Vietnamese cities, where the intensity of the traffic takes your breath away. Most people ride motor bikes (due…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian preview’s tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting: From now on, I will refrain from applying any adjectives to this week City Council agenda. Last week I called it relatively short but the meeting was anything but that. City Manager Responses, Communications and Votes: There are quite a few interesting…
Read More »Union Apartments before the Planning Board Last Sunday’s Lowell Week in Review looked at the Union Apartment private dormitory proposal for upper Merrimack Street. This past Monday, the Lowell Planning Board conducted a preliminary review of that project which would sit on the former Jeanne d’Arc Credit Union site at…
Read More »The entry below is being cross -posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Thirty years ago, I stood with my husband on the banks of the Mekong River in Thailand, where that country comes together with Burma to the west and Laos to the east, and knew that we had to…
Read More »This is the 43rd weekly installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago this week: February 4, 1918 – Monday – American troops are holding…
Read More »COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY MANAGER Motion Responses (see Mimi Parseghian’s “City Council Preview” post for more details on these reports): Pedestrian Safety at Intersection of Pawtucket Blvd. and Rourke Bridge. Councilor Conway thanks CM Murphy for the report. Says the report indicates pedestrian safety will be enhanced. Utopian Park Hydro Sculpture.…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian preview’s tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: The Agenda for the Lowell City Council’s sixth meeting of the year is relatively short compared to the previous two weeks. The motions that are responded to by the Administration are for the most part routine and provide updates rather than…
Read More »The Union Apartments The Lowell Planning Board meets this Monday (February 5, 2018) at 6:30 pm in the City Council chambers. Among the items on the agenda is “Preliminary Site Plan Application for 650 Merrimack Street” also known as The Union Apartments. The city’s website has nine documents about the…
Read More »Former FBI director James Comey speaks out on the GOP attacks on the agency. We are at a very weird stage of our democracy,” former FBI counterterrorism special agent Ali Soufan told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “It’s not just about the FBI. It’s about loyalty to the president, or loyalty…
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