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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s blog. As befits the season, here are some little gifts, selected headlines I’d like to see next year. I have little expectation they will top newspapers or tease newscasts. Still, a gal can dream. Please add your own in the comments section…
Read More »The Year in Review Blog post has been a tradition on richardhowe.com since its inception in 2007. As I begin writing my 2016 version, I thought a trip down memory lane might be worthwhile, so this week I will repost past Year in Review articles. Today features a trifecta: 2007,…
Read More »With Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, I’ll skip my regular week in review column and instead share a very upbeat message from Anita Walker, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (of which Lowell’s own Rosemary Noon is a board member). This city is rich in culture, and…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell this week (cross-posted from Lowell Deeds blog): December 19, 2016 – Monday 3 Dalton St for $194,900. New construction 6 Industrial Ave for $192,500. Prior sale in 1960 120 Westview Rd for $480,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $418,075 439 Varnum…
Read More »This post was first heard as a radio essay on the Sunrise program of WUML, 92.5 FM, at UMass Lowell. Executive producer Chris Dunlap assembled writers in the area for the daily essay feature, a popular component of the morning public affairs show. I have shared this essay with rh.com readers…
Read More »Note from Henri Marchand: Like its subject this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on the former UMass Lowell-produced morning show, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun, and later posted on this blog. At Paul Marion’s request I re-gift it once more…
Read More »The Sun’s Chris Scott reports that the Franco American School, which closed as a school this past June, will be sold to a partnership of the Coalition for a Better Acre and TMI Property Management & Development which plans to convert the school into 40 units of market and affordable…
Read More »City Council Round-Up A couple of discussions from last Tuesday’s City Council meeting are worth mentioning. The first was about the planned expansion of Lowell High School. Some preliminary cost estimates that had appeared the week before were so high that a sense of panic seemed to emerge in some…
Read More »The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: December 12, 2016 – Monday 120 Midland St for $266,000. Prior sale in 2002 for $282,500 64 Plummer Ave for $289,100. Prior sale in 2004 for $294,900 67 Weatherbee Ave for $280,000. Prior sale in 2003 for $230,000 30 Chippewa…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Getty Images Shortly before Elizabeth Warren announced her Senate candidacy, my husband asked her what past senators were her consumer protection role models and where on the spectrum between William Proxmire and Phil Hart she’d place herself. Proxmire was a maverick legislator, renowned…
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