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Update on Auditor selection process: Councilors have each submitted their top three choices from the resumes/applications, so the next step is to schedule interviews with the three top candidates. The three top candidates are Brian Perry, John Linnehan, and Sheila Rouix. Next Tuesday, the council will pick a future dates…
Read More »Next Initiative for Lowell/Canalway Vitality Community Planning Meeting #1 Thursday, Feb. 11, 5.30 to 7 pm UMass Lowell Innovation Hub 110 Canal Street, 3rd floor Lowell (near Appleton Mills and Mill No. 5) Parking at meters nearby or at Early Garage on Jackson St., two blocks away The purpose of…
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Winter Weather: The Good and the Bad We seemed to have tolerated Friday’s snowstorm pretty well. After a week of long range forecasts predicting that the storm would miss us, by mid-day on Thursday weather-people were rapidly revising their forecasts. The rain began very early on Friday and switched to…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: February 1, 2016 – Monday 24 Maude St for $290,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $300,000 10 Ecklund Dr for $264,900. New construction 88 Roper St Unit D for $180,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $177,000 353 Pawtucket Blvd…
Read More »Amy Bisson watched last evening’s Lowell School Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. She wrote a full report on her own blog. Much of the meeting involved the report on the racial incident at Lowell High School. Amy supplements her report with her own observations as a recently-retired Lowell…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Suffolk University board members should be ashamed of themselves. They are passing up the chance to put the school back on the map as a proud and storied urban university and a meaningful player in greater Boston’s civic…
Read More »Our electricity didn’t fail last night; neither did our roof. The wind was so violent by 9 p.m. that I didn’t think either would last. The National Weather Service observations from Hanscom Field in Bedford reports gusts up to 40 mph at that time, but from inside the house, the…
Read More »Thank you to City Manager Kevin Murphy, the City Councilors, and City planning staff for moving forward with improvements to the historic South Common. The first phase of the big park’s upgrade will involve a pathway from Thorndike Street to South Street to enhance walking and biking, especially people moving…
Read More »Reports from City Manager: UMass Lowell bus routes thru Pawtucketville. UMass Lowell redirects its buses to avoid traffic. Councilor Samaras suggests this might be causing a problem for the neighborhoods they are driving through. He understands that altering routes to avoid construction might be necessary, but would prefer it not…
Read More »The media commentariat and political insiders seem astounded that Bernie Sanders is attracting vast support among young voters on the Democratic side. Setting aside Bernie’s views on government policies and social values, remember that people in their 20s grew up watching movies that featured a wise old man with special…
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