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A New High School for Lowell? The Lowell Public Schools deserve some attention this Sunday. This coming Wednesday at 10 am, the Massachusetts School Building Authority will formally invite the city of Lowell to something called the “MSBA’s Eligibility Period.” According to the MSBA’s website, being invited to the Eligibility…
Read More »March 16, 2015 – Monday 277-283 East Merrimack St for $255,000. Prior sale 1991 foreclosure 303-305 East Merrimack St for $345,000. Prior sale 1991 foreclosure 200 Market St Unit 620 for $215,000. Prior sale in 2006 for $210,000 100 Hanks St for $370,000. Prior sale in 1991 282 Salem St…
Read More »With the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in late April 1975 getting near, the media reports and conversation in our own city are turning more often to that awful time in Southeast Asia. The suffering all around was immense. I was in my junior year at the then-University…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former Governor Deval Patrick seems to have caught on that the optics of his $7500 per day pay (plus expenses) for serving as a globe-trotting ambassador for Boston2024’s summer Olympics proposal might not play in some future bid for the Presidency or even…
Read More »With the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War rapidly approaching, frequent contributor Jim Peters has been digging into the newspaper archives at the Pollard Library and will be writing about what was going on in this city has the war wound down to its end in…
Read More »Greater Lowell Area Democrats (GLAD) will meet tomorrow – Saturday morning – March 21, 2015 at 8am in the Independence Grill of the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford . Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting Saturday March 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM At the Independence Grill/ Radisson Hotel Rte.…
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The Northern Middlesex Council of Governments (NMCOG) is one of 13 statutorily-created regional transportation agencies in Massachusetts. Member communities of NMCOG are Lowell, Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, and Westford. Its headquarters is at 40 Church St, Suite 200 in Lowell and its executive director is Beverly Woods. …
Read More »All councilors present at start of meeting despite it being St. Patrick’s Day. BUDGET – FY16 budget update from City Manager. First of many reports. Predicated on department head “wish lists” which will be trimmed down by fiscal realities. In response to Councilor Milinazzo question, Manager concedes that the city’s…
Read More »Here’s a Spring-loaded poem from our far-flung correspondent at the Poetry Desk on the coast of northeast Maine, the faithful Tom Sexton. Our man Down East is counting on mud season to soften the base paths before the Red Sox open at Fenway.—PM . Goldfinches at a Feeder A…
Read More »Congratulations to State Senator Eileen Donoghue and City Manager Kevin Murphy for successfully transitioning the 30-something year old Lowell St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast to an evening dinner. The UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center was packed with all the usual Lowell and Greater Lowell political suspects. The high point for…
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