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City Auditor report on snow and ice costs. City Manager says Governor Baker is lobbying FEMA to reimburse municipalities 100% for snow costs. Nothing definite but city preparing paper work just in case. Councilor Milinazzo asks city to investigate FEMA reimbursement of lost revenue for some businesses. Manager says he’ll…
Read More »Doing winter cleaning last week at our house, we found some old newspapers, which are always a fascinating window on the past. In this case, hostilities in Europe during World War II were reaching a climax. One can imagine what it was like in the city reading the reports on…
Read More »The following sales occurred in Lowell last week: Feb 23, 2015 – Monday 197-199 Stackpole St for $185,000. Prior sale in 1972 1524 Gorham St Unit 105 for $110,000. Prior sale in 1989 for $74,900 Feb 24, 2015 – Tuesday 615 Beacon St for $191,500. Prior sale in 2007 for…
Read More »An envelope from the City of Lowell was waiting in my mailbox today. On the outside, it says PLEASE OPEN IMMEDIATELY RETURN BY MARCH 9, 2015 The enclosed form is pretty simple. You just have to make corrections to the names, gender, date of birth and occupation of members of…
Read More »Professor Bob Forrant sent the following: University of Massachusetts Lowell Spring 2015 COMMEMORATION OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT “ In 1964, President Johnson put pen to paper and signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Fifty years later, few pieces of legislation have…
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When I saw the front page of today’s print edition of the Lowell Sun, the photo of the Rialto Building used to illustrate the story on Middlesex Community College looked surprisingly familiar. That’s probably because I’m the one who took it. Below is the photo that appears in today’s Lowell…
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Welcome to March Well March is finally here. I saw somewhere that March 1st signals the start of “meteorological spring” but today’s forecast is for more snow which will just add to the beauty of the 111+ inches that have already fallen this winter. The City Council, at its Tuesday…
Read More »(I attended the Transportation Subcommittee meeting earlier Tuesday night and so was unable to watch this meeting live so I watched the LTC replay online on Saturday morning, Feb 28). Vice Chair Leahy is chairing the meeting; Mayor Elliott is absent. Council endorses the 2015 Open Space & Recreation Plan. …
Read More »I’m encouraged by the evidence of civic activism around different interests in Lowell. Almost overnight, a group emerged with shared interest in the upcoming design changes around the Lord Overpass and Thorndike-Dutton corridor. For a while now there’s been a coalition of folks who care about bike-riding and how the…
Read More »It is still freakin’ cold out there, so I’m posting another Caribbean composition from the vault.—PM . Hibiscus Lane 1. One nimble gecko scaling a mosquito net remains the only lizard we’ve seen in a week on the island whose old name, Hewanorra, means “where the iguana is found.” Purple…
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