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Moment of silence for M. Brendan Fleming, former mayor and city councilor, who passed away this week. Vote to authorize City Manager to enter into a Master Development Agreement with WinnDevelopment Co LP of Boston for the Hamilton Canal District. City Manager Murphy explains that a critical element of the…
Read More »I read a Memorial Day Facebook post about Michael J. Monahan of Dracut, a Keith Academy graduate and Boston College student who enlisted in the Marines and was killed at Quang Tri in South Vietnam in 1966. He was a radio operator, nineteen years old. There’s a playground on Pleasant…
Read More »On Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 10 am, the city of Lowell will dedicate the intersection of Jackson and Canal Streets to David H. McNerney, a Lowell native who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam. David H. McNerney was born in Lowell on June 2, 1931 and…
Read More »It being Memorial Day weekend, instead of writing about Lowell politics this morning, I’d like to share the stories of some Lowell residents who gave their lives while in the service of their country. Donald Arcand – Vietnam War Born in 1946, Donald L. Arcand grew up on Ford Street…
Read More »The following Lowell properties sold last week: May 23, 2016 – Monday 617 Westford St for $220,000. Prior sale in 1999 for $162,000 559 Concord St for $180,000. Prior sale in 2001 for $119,000 231 Appleton St for $204,000. Prior sale 1993 tax taking 101-103 Aiken Ave for $220,000. Prior…
Read More »This is the fourth is what will be an occasional series of bulletins about the cultivated and wild things on my property in the South Common Historic District, upland from Hale’s or River Meadow Brook and the Concord River, just at the edge of the industrial core of the city.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. All three presidential candidates are pandering to voters on trade rather than educating them to the complexity of the issue. Demagoguing it, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders simplistically blame trade pacts for disappearing jobs and dimmed future prospects. Back…
Read More »Lowell Walks will do two separate evening tours next week: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. at Lowell Community Health Center, 161 Jackson Street as part of the JAMBRAREE celebration. This tour will be of the Jackson, Middlesex and Appleton Street district. The tour will be co-led by me…
Read More »Following Lowell politics is a chore; understanding Lowell politics is even tougher. In last Sunday’s Week in Review post, I touched upon some of the political forces in the city and how they manifested themselves in the City Council’s debate on the State Senate’s Transgender Anti-Discrimination Bill. It’s a topic…
Read More »Rourke Bridge: Councilor Belanger reports that the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments and the member communities of NMCOG are all lobbying the state to raise the priority of a Rourke Bridge replacement. He also warns that the initial feasibility study is several years old and that if the follow-on environmental…
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