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The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: December 7, 2015 – Monday 401-403 Beacon St for $350,000. Prior sale in 1964 50 Liberty St Unit 4 for $165,500. Prior sale in 2003 for $169,900 157 Rea St for $328,000. Prior sale in 1985 December 8, 2015…
Read More »This Saturday, December 12, 2015, the Lowell Historical Society will hold a program on Lowell History Since World War II at 2 p.m. at the Pollard Memorial Library’s Community Room. Paul Marion and I will be the main speakers. We will both discuss the past seventy years of our city’s…
Read More »Recently I met Vincent Valentine, the founder of The Telephone Museum. Not surprisingly, we were soon talking about Lowell and its role in the development of the telephone. I invited him to share some telephone stories with our readers here on richardhowe.com: “The Numbers Guy” How We Got Telephone Numbers…
Read More »From HuffPo, a leading French intellectual lays out what he sees at stake in the coming election in France. There’s turmoil in the electorate because of the turmoil in the affairs of war and politics all over the place. There’s a connection to the Trump thing there also, with many…
Read More »Public hearing on establishment of the “minimum residential factor.” This is the percentage of the tax levy that is allocated to residential property. Manager Murphy begins by reviewing the financial accomplishments of this council. Foremost is its support of education; the city exceeds the amount required for “net school spending.”…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It has been nearly a century since the New York Times published an editorial on its front page. It didn’t do so during the Great Depression, the Holocaust or the Vietnam War. Today, in the wake of…
Read More »I saw Spotlight yesterday at the Lowell Cinema. It’s a very powerful film. The story is well-known but the movie still generated an incredible amount of suspense. While the core of the story is the clergy sexual abuse scandal, the movie is mostly about how it was covered up for…
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Underneath the Connector Early in the week I noticed a mention of an upcoming event of Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust. Here’s what it said: Take a Tour…Under the Connector?! When: Saturday, December 5, 2015, 12PM YES! LP&CT Executive Director Jane Calvin will be leading an exploration under the Lowell…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell this past week November 30, 2015 – Monday 40 Sheldon St for $200,000. Prior sale in 1951 65 Stevens St for $260,000. Prior sale in 2015 for $162,000 694 Westford St for $296,500. Prior sale in 2003 for $279,900 77 Glenmere…
Read More »Jim Peters shares some memories of his life in Lowell: As a young child, I wanted to be an architect, but I lacked the motor skills to paint a clear picture, and I was told by my father that I could not do that because of my Mathematics grades. Mathematics…
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