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Economic Development Subcommittee report by Councilor Samaras. He invites Jim Cook, of Lowell Plan and Lowell Development and Finance Corp, to introduce some of the entrepreneurs receiving financial assistance from LDFC. Local banks and credit unions have put up $1 mil for a loan fund to help finance new companies…
Read More »Members of Lowell’s Division of Planning and Development provided an update last evening on the remake of the Lord Overpass. Held at the Pollard Memorial Library’s public meeting room, the event drew about three dozen people, including Mayor Ed Kennedy, Councilors Bill Samaras, John Leahy and Rodney Elliott, and Councilors-elect…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to feel good about last Tuesday’s election results. Winning beats losing. Trying to tout losing by special congressional elections by ever-narrower margins doesn’t cut it. Never mind that Virginia trends blue anyway and voted Democratic…
Read More »Tonight (Monday, November 13, 2017) at 6 pm at the Pollard Memorial Library’s ground floor meeting room, the city of Lowell Division of Planning and Development will present an update on the latest plans for the remake of the Lord Overpass. The meeting is open to the public.
Read More »Mimi Parseghian looks at the agenda for this coming Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting, which begins at 6:30 pm and will be televised live on LTC channel 99 and streamed live on LTC’s website. And if you can’t attend the meeting in person, or watch it live, check back here…
Read More »Post-Election Analysis After a campaign of many months, Lowell voters spoke on Tuesday. Their message was loud and clear: The nonbinding referendum in favor of keeping the high school downtown prevailed by a margin of 61% to 39% which, by any measure, is a landslide; the council’s existing 5 to…
Read More »Tomorrow at 2 pm at Lowell National Park Visitor Center, 246 Market Street, I will co-present a Moses Greeley Parker lecture on Moses Greeley Parker and the New Hampshire Telephone Museum. The other speaker will be Laura French, the executive director of that museum. Like all Parker Lectures, the event…
Read More »After the blizzard of campaign lit that we’ve seen in our mailboxes for the past week or so, it was refreshing to get the fall newsletter from the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust (LP&CT), one of the powerhouses in the nonprofit community. The last time I heard a figure for…
Read More »This is the 30th 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: November 5, 1917 – Monday – US Troops captured. Forced…
Read More »Question 1 on yesterday’s ballot read as follows: The City of Lowell is reviewing several options for its high school project. Do you support extensive renovation and rebuild at the existing Lowell High School location, at 50 Father Morissette Boulevard, Lowell, MA 01852? The outcome was 7254 voted YES; 4629…
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