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Mimi Parseghian preview’s tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council Agenda is quite heavy both in the number of items and the significance of the raised topics. It will be a long meeting. After this long agenda, the City Council is going into Executive Session. Unlike some…
Read More »Development News and Updates Looking at the “pending projects” pages for the Lowell Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals and Conservation Commission always provides some interesting information. Here are some new projects, or modified old projects, that caught my attention. Hamilton Canal District Parking Garage At the end of December,…
Read More »This is the 41st 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: January 21, 1918 – Monday – Fuel order may be…
Read More »Motion Responses: Lowell High Feasibility costs to date. Councilor Milinazzo asks about the costs of Article 97 issues. Manager Murphy says that was mostly staff time but he will look into that. Councilor Kennedy asks whether the money remaining will be sufficient or if more will be needed. Manager Murphy…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council Agenda is extensive as City Councilors are introducing motions in reaction to current situations and others which reflect issues that individual Councilors want to advance. First item of major interest is a General Public Hearing for a…
Read More »Plastic Bags I suspect everyone knows that plastic bags are harmful to the environment. The very qualities that make them useful – they are lightweight, strong, inexpensive and water proof – also make them a problem. They do not biodegrade which means they do not deteriorate naturally, they only fragment…
Read More »Federal government shut-down shenanigans. Big shout-out to our man on the White House beat, Jonathan Lemire from Lowell of the Associated Press and MSNBC TV, for his crisp, insightful, and informed commentary when paired last night with veteran broadcaster Brian Williams as they followed the folly in the US Senate…
Read More »This is the 40th 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: January 14, 1918 – Monday – American liner sunk. US…
Read More »Mayor asks for a suspension of the rules to take up a matter related to Abandoned Housing. City Manager Murphy explains that the city’s SWAT team (representatives from all city departments) did a tour last summer of lower Centerville. They noted many vacant and abandoned properties. Attorney General Maura Healey…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just when you thought Donald Trump had already taken the Presidency as low as it could go, he asked, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries coming here?” Our esteemed President, according to credible reports,…
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