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Mayor Elliott and Councilor Mercier are not present (they are visiting Cambodia). Council discussing report on vacancy rates in downtown. Acknowledge that there are challenges beyond the control of the city. For example, the city found a tenant for a large retail space that is vacant but the building owner…
Read More »Patrick Cook, the Executive Director of Public Affairs at Middlesex Community College who blogs for the college as well, shares the following from MCC: The New Year promises to bring quite a few changes to the Lowell and Bedford campuses of Middlesex Community College, with President Carole Cowan retiring after…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The late Governor Mario Cuomo, a stirring orator, told the once significant The New Republic in 1985, “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose” In a clear break from his predecessor Deval Patrick, Governor Charlie Baker may…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If I were technologically proficient, I’d edge this blog in black. How profoundly sad is the grievous slaughter of 12 yesterday in Paris, journalists and their police protectors at the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. What…
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Boston 2024 Will the Summer Olympics come to Boston nine years from now? I certainly hope so. When I first heard of the possibility many months ago I was skeptical but then I spoke with State Senator Eileen Donoghue who convincingly made the case for all the benefits that would…
Read More »The following real estate sales took place in Lowell last week: January 5, 2015 – Monday 189 Parker St for $900,000. Prior sale in 1994 for $250,000 56-58 Robbins St for $337,000. Prior sale in 1977 80 Rogers St Unit 206 for $209,900. New condo 86 Rock St for $132,000.…
Read More »This is a cross post from the “Forgotten New England” blog as written by Lowell Historical Society Curator Ryan Owen. In his on-going series sharing re-discovered LHS Collection artifacts or in this case “new” artifacts, Ryan not only discusses these Merrimack Mill badges but the story of those ladies who…
Read More »Yesterday in his Inaugural Address, newly-sworn-in Governor Charlie Baker reminded us that on that rostrum in that Chamber, John F. Kennedy addressed the Legislature and the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as he took his leave to become the 35th President of the United States. He noted ~ “Decades…
Read More »Social network analysis looks at how people and organizations are connected and interact. People who are active in their community, political or otherwise, engage in a type of informal social network analysis without thinking about it much. I’ve long been interested in how Lowell “works” and from time to time…
Read More »Please note that due to extreme weather (cold cold cold) forecast for today and tonight, the Tewksbury Public Library has postponed my talk scheduled for this evening about my new book, “Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park,” until later this winter. Watch here for the…
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