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Governor Patrick Coming to Lowell Governor Deval Patrick will be in Lowell this coming Tuesday, October 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the end of Jackson Street to provide an update on the $15 million state-funded project to re-design the Lord Overpass. Besides easing that traffic bottleneck the Overpass work will…
Read More »The following real estate sales occurred in Lowell last week: October 6, 2014 – Monday 43 Market St for $625,000. Prior sale in 1996 for $84,000 54-60 Queen St for $235,000. Prior sale in 1982 October 7, 2014 – Tuesday 35 Shea St for $195,000. Prior sale in 1997 for…
Read More »From its founding in 1915, the International Institute of Lowell has helped countless immigrants who arrived in Lowell in too many ways to list. Recently, an enormous cache of documentary records dating from the earliest days of the Institute were uncovered. Institute staff and historians from UMass Lowell are now…
Read More »It’s official! Greater Lowell Area Democrats announce that the 2014 Distinguished Democrat will be Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth Steve Grossman. A special meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats was one of Steve’s first stops in his quest to become state party chair in the early 1990s. He later went…
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Read More »My book “Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park” begins with a chapter that offers the reader historical background for the late 20th-century story about to be told. I wanted to provide context for readers unfamiliar with Lowell and to set the stage for the enormous…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. WBZ performed its civic duty by including three independent candidates for governor in Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate, but the three added little to the process. It’s one thing to give everyone equal access in the early stages of the campaign,…
Read More »Disability commission will now provide close captioning of city council meetings on LTC. Council recesses regular meeting and resumes special meeting to elect a member of the Regional Vocational School Committee to fill the vacancy that occurred when Erik Gitschier resigned after being hired as head of the Lowell Water…
Read More »On Saturday, November 8 from 7 pm until 11 pm, there will be a special event at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. The purpose? To raise funds for the Sacred Heart Neighborhood Scholarship at UMass Lowell. What makes this event unique is how it came about. Six individuals…
Read More »From the Pacific Rim Desk of the RichardHowe.com blog comes a new poem by our far-flung correspondent Tom Sexton, who recently traversed North America lengthwise to open shop for several months Down East. We welcome Tom and his wife, Sharyn, back to New England for a spell. This is Tom…
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