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City Council Vesna Nuon – 7518 Edward Kennedy – 6483 John Leahy – 6114 Bill Samaras – 6094 Rita Mercier – 5730 Jim Millinazzo – 5688 Rodney Elliott – 5447 Dave Conway – 4974 Karen Cirillo – 4973 Sokhary Chau – 4756 Dan Rourke – 4729 Cory Belanger – 4722…
Read More »The entry blow is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Late tonight (aka Sunday morning) is the start of the deep blue funk. Clocks are set back one hour at two a.m. Soon sunset will be a little after four o’clock. (In Maine, it’s before four p.m.) Vitamin…
Read More »Thanks to Mimi Parseghian for her preview of tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: After a two week break, the Lowell City Council is back to the regular Tuesday night meeting schedule. The November 7th agenda has only three City Council motions but quite a few of the Administration’s “motion…
Read More »Election Day Preview The polls open on Tuesday at 7 am and remain open until 8 pm. On the general election ballot, incumbents come first followed by challengers, each group listed alphabetically. The names on the council ballot will be listed as follows: Corey A. Belanger Rodney M. Elliott Edward…
Read More »Here’s a synopsis of city council and school committee elections from 1991 through 2015 to provide some historical context for Tuesday: 1991 Voters reelected council incumbents Tarsy Poulios, Bud Caulfield, Kathy Kelley, Richard Howe, Gerald Durkin, Robert Kennedy and Curtis LeMay. Joining them were former councilor Richard O’Malley and newcomer…
Read More »This is the 29th 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: October 29, 1917 – Monday – Powerful German advance checked…
Read More »This storm will pack a punch, but it’ll be gone quickly Power outages are virtually guaranteed across southern New England. After a beautiful day on Saturday, things are rapidly going to go downhill Sunday afternoon and into the overnight. . . . Power outages are virtually guaranteed across southern New…
Read More »LHS at Boston Book Festival Among the nearly one hundred author sessions at yesterday’s Boston Book Festival was one called Defining Diversity which is also the title of a book published last May by a class of Lowell High students. Taking the stage at 11:30 am in the Boston Public…
Read More »There must be a comic out there who wrote this already, but I will suggest it for consideration. In the contest of political language and with humor in the face of swamp gas, the inconvenient media should use the term “droppings” instead of “tweets” for early morning emissions from Trump’s…
Read More »This is the 28th 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: October 22, 1917 – Monday – Success for British and…
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