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Fred Faust, principal of The Edge Group, Inc., a real estate consulting firm, previously was an assistant to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas. He shares the following essay: This is another entry in a series about people in the Greater Lowell area who have taken initiative and achieved special things including…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The future lies ahead, but which candidate will embrace it? I want to share some analysis laid out this week at The New England Council. That venerable business organization has, with bipartisan support, lobbied for years for practical solutions to…
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City Election Voters opted to stay the course on Tuesday, reelecting all incumbents on the ballot including eight city councilors and two school committee members. Even those elected already had connections with city government: Jim Leary, the new city councilor, was an incumbent school committee member; three of the four…
Read More »Some facts about last week’s city of Lowell election: Registered Voters in Lowell: 59,265 Number who voted on Tuesday; 10,714 Turnout percent: 18.1% Average council votes cast per ballot: 6.0 Average school committee votes per ballot: 3.7 Precinct with highest per ballot CC vote: 9-1 (6.8 votes) Precinct with lowest…
Read More »Massachusetts law requires a lender who intends to foreclose a mortgage to first publish a Notice of Mortgagee’s Sale in the legal notices section of a newspaper once each week for three consecutive weeks prior to the auction sale of the property. The following notices were published this week. The…
Read More »The following Lowell properties were sold this past week: November 2, 2015 – Monday 189 Sparks St for $344,500. Prior sale in 1959 120 Andrews St Unit 124 for $265,900. New condo 20 Putnam Ave for $220,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $245,000 112 Hampshire St for $199,900. Prior sale…
Read More »On this day last year as the Kennedy legacy got a renewal with Ted Kennedy, Jr. elected to the State Senate in Connecticut and great-great grandson Joe Kennedy, III re-elected to his 4th CD seat in the US House of Representatives…we looked at the maternal side of the family to remember the life and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Charlie Baker couldn’t be elected dog catcher as a Republican in wide red swaths of our country. For evidence, look at just the last 24 hours. Our Republican governor is expanding diversity in businesses contracting with the state, widening…
Read More »The Lowell Sun reported yesterday on its website that the American Textile History Museum at Dutton Street in Lowell will close “temporarily” on January 1, 2016 due to “ongoing serious financial constraints.” As yet, the Museum has nothing about this on its website. It the ATHM a casualty of Dutton…
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This past Tuesday, 10,714 of the 59,265 registered voters in Lowell voted in the city election. That’s a turnout percentage of 18%, but voter participation was not spread evenly across the city. Instead, just a few sections of the city yielded the bulk of all votes. For electoral purposes, Lowell…
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