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Tonight I attended the Lowell City Council Transportation Subcommittee meeting on the Lord Overpass project. In attendance were six or seven representatives of VHB, the engineering firm hired by the state to oversee this project. Also in attendance were more than 30 Lowell residents, most representing groups or constituencies with…
Read More »In the early 2000s, my family was fortunate enough to visit the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean Sea for several Februarys in a row. This morning, I was looking for something to post that would transport readers out of the Lowell snow zone for a few minutes.—PM .…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forty years ago, Italian postal workers faced a backlog of 20 million pieces of mail following a series of strikes. Unlike London, which faced a similar problem and simply took a couple of weeks to eliminate the backlog,…
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Snowy Roofs On the roof it’s peaceful as can be And there the world below can’t bother me Last week it was ice dams; this week it’s unstable roofs. With the forecasters calling for our current storm to end with heavy, wet snow or even rain, many Lowell residents took…
Read More »This blog has History in the subtitle. Lowell history is always part of the larger narrative nationwide and in the world. We all know that, but sometimes it’s preferable to push aside the misery and chaos and stupidity from beyond the Merrimack Valley that shows up in our news feeds.…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: Feb 16, 2015 – Monday President’s Day – no sales Feb 17, 2015 – Tuesday 510 Varnum Ave for $240,187. Prior sale in 1968 Feb 18, 2015 – Wednesday 341 Pawtucket Blvd Unit 23 for $90,600. Prior sale in…
Read More »A big thanks to the Vermont National Guard troops who worked like heck on Highland Street all day yesterday with front-end loaders and huge dump trucks to bash out the vast snow piles that had narrowed the street severely. They had a Humvee at the Thorndike intersection with a Guardsman…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The question during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign was often “Will the real Charlie Baker please stand up?” Today, Governor Baker stood before a meeting of the New England Council, the real Charlie Baker, the one I knew from…
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Lowell City Council: February 17, 2015 Motion Responses Rita Mercier asks if there are any plans to make some streets one way due to their narrowness from snowbanks. Manager Murphy says it’s an excellent suggestion. Mentions Lowell has highest snow fall totals in US. Says there’s a meeting tomorrow to…
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