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A proposal by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to widen Nesmith Street (Rte 38) at several places calls for the removal of a number of trees that line the sidewalk alongside Kittredge Park. Citizens will have the opportunity to hear more about this plan and to share their thought…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: July 18, 2016 – Monday 394 High St for $312,000. Prior sale in 2005 for $325,000 74 Wollaston St for $361,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $250,100 11 Holyrood St for $448,000. Prior sale in 1997 for $180,000 75…
Read More »Not watered down. The Trump thing.
Read More »This Saturday from 2 pm to 330 pm, a group of Lowell residents will gather at Kittredge Park at the corner of Andover and Nesmith Street to celebrate the park. There will be acoustic music, food, and a talk by me on the history of the park and the story…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Two down, two to go. Days, that is, of the Republican National Convention. I’m not watching gavel to gavel. I have a life. But, as a political junkie, I’m drawn to watch the evening activities, as deplorable…
Read More »Tomorrow’s Lowell Walks tour is Major Downtown Fires. The tour will be led by Jason Strunk, a captain of the Lowell Fire Department, the author of “Lowell Firefighting,” and the co-author of “A25: Stories from Lowell’s First Arson Squad.” The tour will visit the sites of some historic fires that…
Read More »There’s a major museum exhibition in Paris about the Beat Generation writers this summer. Geoff Dyer, one of the best writers working today, has a piece about the show in The Spectator in England. He gives Jack Kerouac high marks for literary achievement but minces no words about the author…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was way out of line in her scathing criticism of Donald Trump. Three times in the last week, she let it be known she can’t imagine this country under a president Trump, She called…
Read More »Two big real estate sales were consummated this week. On Thursday, UMass Lowell took ownership of the Perkins Place apartments, and on Friday, Vision Development took ownership of the former Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank headquarters at One Merrimack Plaza (across from Lowell High School). Like most complex real estate…
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