On Tuesday night more than 80 people gathered at the Lowell Senior Center for a community meeting to discuss the future of the Smith Baker Center. The meeting was organized by the Coalition for a Better Acre and the public forum was facilitated by UMass Lowell’s John Wooding. Yun-Ju Choi,…
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The Africa America Alliance, Inc., an organization “dedicated to the pursuit of human rights and equality for all,” held an inaugural breakfast event for its proposed Nelson Mandela Overlook yesterday at the Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell. According to the AAA, Lowell is a fitting site for this…
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Please try to attend the community meeting tomorrow night about the future of the Smith Baker Center. Organized by the Coalition for a Better Acre, the meeting will be held at the Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway, from 530pm until 730pm. There is a Facebook event for the meeting but…
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Back when we still had snow measured in feet rather than in memories, I felt the need to go somewhere south of here. For reasons I won’t get into, Florida wasn’t an option and we’d already been to Charleston and Savannah. Once I discovered that Southwest flew direct from Boston…
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Here’s another post by Jim Peters about events in Lowell 150 years ago this month: The Lowell Courier has been my main source of information for the reaction of the people of Lowell, who lost many soldiers on the Union side, in the War Between the States. If it is…
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Rosemary and I had a lively swing through the Farm Market at Mill No. 5 this afternoon, which was busy with people. The Purple Carrot bakers made 54 loaves of bread this morning and sold all of them. The bakers want to open an artisanal shop in Lowell. Right now…
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I visited Nashville, Tennessee this week (I’ll have a post about that later today) so I had to step away from the rhythms of Lowell and its politics. Last night I did watch a replay of Tuesday night’s council meeting and have posted my notes below: Lowell City Council Meeting:…
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April 20, 2015 – Monday Patriots Day – no recordings April 21, 2015 – Tuesday 157 Smith St unit $230,000. Prior sale in 2008 for $185,000 49 Cambridge St Unit 6 for $70,000. Prior sale in 2011 for $65,000 49-51 Cambridge St Unit 5 for $85,000. Prior sale 2011 foreclosure…
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From the Zinn Education Project on Facebook: “On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis tested their new air force on the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain. One-third of Gernika’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded. Pablo Picasso exposed the horror of the bombing in…
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