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Our friend Mehmed Ali has written a new book: Yousuf Karsh & John Garo – The Search for a Master’s Legacy. This Thursday, May 5, 2016, at 6:30 pm, the Whistler House Museum at 243 Worthen Street will host a book launch. Everyone is invited. The book is the story…
Read More »Urban planner Jeff Speck is a friend of Lowell’s. He likes the city. He has praised the renaissance of the city. His advice is worth considering. His knowledge, based on working around the country and the world, is valuable. It’s a mistake for anyone to paint him as some kind…
Read More »Lowell real estate sales from last week: April 25, 2016 – Monday 94-96 Orleans St for $110,250. Prior sale 2014 foreclosure 129 Mary Theresa Terrace for $262,000. Prior sale in 2009 for $225,000 257 Rogers St Unit 2 for $150,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $198,000 487 Wentworth Ave for…
Read More »Lowell Community Charter Public School The Sun reported this week that Kathy Egmont, the Head of School of Lowell Community Charter Public School (located at 206 Jackson St in Lowell), resigned her position effective June 30, 2016. The school’s board of trustees reportedly accepted her resignation, issuing a statement that…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts is a world-class laggard when it comes to public support of the arts, and things could get even worse. The Massachusetts House just cut funding for the Mass. Cultural Council (MCC) by $2 million, to $12.2 million. (Originally, House…
Read More »More than 100 years ago Clemente Park was the site of one of the most modern baseball stadiums in America. Built in 1906 and named Washington Park, the baseball stadium had 3500 seats and was home to the Lowell Tigers of the professional New England Baseball League. The Tigers had…
Read More »This is the second in a series of posts about what’s happening with cultivated and wild things on my property in the South Common Historic District.— PM The birds. The birds. As a kid, one of my favorite movies was Alfred Hitchcock’s ominous 1963 movie “The Birds” with Tippi Hedren…
Read More »City Manager introduces Kerran Vigroux, the city’s new Health and Human Services Director, to the city council. He also thanks Jo-Ann Keegan for filling the position during the vacancy. Public Hearings – Order of taking and acceptance of Dowling Drive and Cresta Drive (two existing streets that had not yet…
Read More »THE WAMESIT TRAIL OF TEARS: A Story of the life, trials, and FINAL exodus of our Wamesit and Pawtucket neighbors By Jay Gaffney “he buys the Indian’s moccasins and baskets, then buys his hunting grounds, and at length forgets where he is buried and plows up his bones” Henry David…
Read More »Two weeks worth of real estate sales and foreclosure notices: Week of April 11, 2016 April 11, 2016 – Monday 104 Merrill Ave for $272,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $242,500 222 Stackpole St Unit 12 for $101,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $138,000 956 Varnum Ave for $299,900. Prior…
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