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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts is officially a casino state. Yesterday at two p.m. a slots parlor opened to the public in Plainville. Penn National reportedly spent $250 million to build and start up the facility, the first to bring Las Vegas…
Read More »Tomorrow morning at 10 am the fourth edition of Lowell Walks will kick off from the National Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street. The tour is Literary Lowell and the Pollard Memorial Library. It will be led by Sean Thibodeau, the library’s Coordinator of Community Planning. The tour…
Read More »If you are downtown in the next three days and want to talk to an expert about community empowerment, grassroots organizing, neighborhood dynamics, coalition building, and all the good things that make for a competent, healthy, and just society where you live, just look for one of the 660 community…
Read More »(transcribed on Thursday, June 25, 2015) “Day Program” at Transitional Living Center Director of Lowell Transitional Living Center (“the Shelter”) speaks to council about its day program which will begin in July. In the past, residents of the shelter had to leave during the day and return at night to…
Read More »Again there is activity along River Road in Andover! What will happen to the massive St. Francis Seminary on River Road? Many have fond memories of the Christmas light display created by the seminarians. Just down the street from my home on Fiske Street, the building and property has been…
Read More »It doesn’t take much sometimes. It’s uplifting to see how much people appreciate a positive gesture, no matter what size. In addition to spreading a layer of loam and re-seeding the sports field at the South Common, the good folks at City Hall brought in a pavement company to resurface…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Thirty-six hours after Dylann Storm Roof slaughtered their loved ones in a Charleston, S.C AME Church, family members of the victims grieved their loss but urged the mass murderer be treated with grace, dignity and forgiveness. Like Nadine Collier,…
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Lowell Walks – Lowell High We had another successful Lowell Walks tour yesterday: “Inside Lowell High School” led by Headmaster Brian Martin. 88 people joined the tour which began at the National Park Visitor Center and then moved on to Kirk Street, entering the building at the doorway under the…
Read More »June 15, 2015 – Monday 23-33 Middle St Unit 21 for $184,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $239,900 559 Fletcher St for $395,000. Prior sale in 2013 for $290,000 373 Aiken Ave Unit 7 for $95,000. Prior sale in 2005 for $145,000 80 Rogers St Unit 105 for $219,900. New…
Read More »Jeb Lund lets it fly in ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine, seeing this massacre in South Carolina as part and parcel of the poisonous politics and culture in which we are immersed. There is something very sick upon the land.
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