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December 15, 2014 – Monday 60 Billerica St Unit C for $190,000. Prior sale in 2004 for $190,000 170 Holyrood Ave for $400,000. Prior sale in 2007 for $475,000 71 Ecklund Dr for $264,900. New construction December 16, 2014 – Tuesday 19 Commonwealth AVe for $250,000. Prior sale in 1974…
Read More »One of our past contributors has a seasonal essay to share with our readers. Jack McDonough has been a writer and editor at UMass Lowell in the University Relations Office for 20 years. He wrote this piece for broadcast as one of the daily essays on the Sunrise radio program…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Hmm, the country has an authoritarian regime, a Communist credo, a record of human rights violations, no open elections or free press, and we’re liberalizing relations with it? How can we do that? Well, it worked with China,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Yesterday, the city of Rome included itself among the potential hosts for the 2024 summer Olympics. Now, where would you rather be that August – Boston or Rome? Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said, “it’s unacceptable not to try.” Boston’s self-appointed elite apparently feel…
Read More »Carole Cowan Retiring President of Middlesex Community College Carole Cowan is honored by the City Council and by State Senator Eileen Donoghue (on behalf of herself and Representatives Golden and Nangle). Public Hearing: To adopt the minimum residential factor No speakers for or against. CFO Connor Baldwin gives council presentation…
Read More »John Edward teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell. He’s a frequent contributor of columns on economic issues The only thing worse than a bad idea is a good idea ruined by an inflated sense of how good an idea it is. Winston Churchill said democracy is the worst form…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: December 8, 2014 – Monday 7 Avalon St for $307,000. Prior sale in 2005 for $162,400 December 9, 2014 – Tuesday Andover St (building lot) for $240,000. Prior sale (of this lot and another) in 2014 for $475,000 46…
Read More »City Council – Bike Lanes The city council’s transportation subcommittee met last Tuesday before the regular council meeting. Their topic was the bike lanes on Fr. Morissette Boulevard. They recommended some changes to the markings around the lanes – nothing that seemed too drastic – but the biggest thing to…
Read More »Thirty-seven years ago today a fire broke out in a dormitory at Providence College. Ten students perished. Back in 2010 I wrote a blog post about the fire. Each year it gains a few more comments. It now has 42. Many of those who have contributed were there that night. …
Read More »From the archive ~ a reminder about the massive, destructive and very painful fire at Malden Mills in Lawrence ~ December 11, 1995. In the Merrimack Valley: Remembering the 1995 Malden Mills Fire December 11, 2012 by Marie Posted in Greater Lowell 1Comment Mass Moments reminds today us that on the evening of December 11,…
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