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The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: August 31, 2015 – Monday 80 Swan St Unit 220 for $193,000. Prior sale in 2005 for $254,000 23-33 Middle St Unit 15 for $183,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $165,000 262 Hovey St for $255,000. Prior sale in…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Federal Judge Richard Berman nullified Tom Brady’s four-game suspension Thursday, and suddenly all was right with the world. Signs at the final preseason game declared with relief “Tom Brady is Free” and “Richard Berman for President.” Why not? Even…
Read More »Here we go again. Labor Day is near, and the four-year presidential election cycle will shift into high gear. For months, we had media reports of candidates tromping through the hills and valleys of our neighbor state New Hampshire. I’ve written about this before, but I have to repeat that…
Read More »For anyone who needs a reminder about the distinctive region around us, just check the new issue of the New Yorker magazine with two major articles about historical happenings and people from our general area. Our local history keeps making news. Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Shiff writes about “The Witches of Salem:…
Read More »A couple of Saturdays ago the topic of the Lowell Walks tour was Lowell Artists, Past and Present. We visited several galleries and the Whistler House Museum of Art but the highlight of the tour for me, at least, was a visit to the City Council chambers at Lowell City…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It would be very tempting to leap to support the Green Line extension through Somerville to Medford. After all, anything that modernizes our nation’s oldest mass transit system is a good thing, and this particular plan was promised…
Read More »Last night City Manager Kevin Murphy provided an update on the Hamilton Canal District to about 40 people gathered in the Enterprise Bank’s Community Room at 18 Palmer Street. Councilors Corey Belanger, John Leahy, Jim Milinazzo, and Bill Samaras attended as did Celeste Bernardo, the Superintendent of Lowell National Historical…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Slain WDBJ reporter Alison Parker’s father, Andy Parker, has become the latest grieving parent calling for gun control. We are all seduced by the notion that simply understanding the impact on real people of the failure to…
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With the eleventh installment of Lowell Walks completed yesterday, we’ve surpassed the 1000 mark – 1097 to be exact. That’s how many people have participated in these Saturday morning walking tours of downtown Lowell. Blogging colleague Paul Marion speculates that the collective good will of all these participants has influenced…
Read More »It was a (relatively) busy week for real estate sales in Lowell: August 24, 2015 – Monday 85-87 Belrose Ave for $340,000. Prior sale in 1996 for $108,500 95 Endicott St for $255,500. Prior sale in 2009 for $230,000 31 Atlantic St for $350,000. Prior sale in 1973 363 Hildreth…
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