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(top photo by Jen Myers) I appreciated the farewell remarks of City Manager Bernie Lynch at his final City Council meeting as Manager last night. Especially this part, according to my colleague Dick Howe’s notes: Through all of that, I was hoping to build a sense of community. Lowell is…
Read More »Unfinished business from last week: Councilor Belanger moves to delay executive sessions from tonight to the next council meeting. Unanimously approved. Motion by Mayor Elliott to set up joint subcommittee of council and school committee to assess recently completed Lowell High School facilities assessment report. Unanimously approved. Motion by Mayor…
Read More »Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge (1872-75) James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1905) was nine years old when his family left Lowell and traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father helped the Czar build a railroad. In Lowell, his father, George Washington Whistler, and mother, Anna Matilda McNeill, lived at…
Read More »The Lowell City Council held a special meeting tonight (March 3, 2014) to decide the next steps in the process of selecting a new city manager and a new city auditor. Councilor Mercier opens by moving that a period of citizen comment be allowed prior to the interviews. Councilor Belanger…
Read More »The blog posts and Facebook notes about Lowell Historical Society curator Ryan Owen and his finds in the Society’s collection must have raised his profile. Owen and the collection are front and center, front-page, above the fold in today’s Lowell Sun. As with the find of the Solon Perkins Civil…
Read More »State Representative Tom Golden has been out front and leading on public policy responses to the widespread opiate abuse that is claiming too many lives. In 2013, his advocacy led to the re-opening of Tewksbury Hospital’s Alcohol and Drug Detoxification Center and working with the Greater Lowell Health Alliance he…
Read More »Louise Griffin of Lowell is speaking out about the addiction crisis that is destroying so many lives around us. Her son died recently, after struggling for several years with addiction that began with taking pain-killing pills in high school after a hockey injury. Read about Zachary and Louise and two…
Read More »Don’t forget the upcoming recognition of Peter Aucella’s contributions to the city when the Kiwanis Club of Greater Lowell will present him with the Thomas G. Kelakos Community Spirit Award at 6.30 pm on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at The Mill House at Lenzi’s, 810 Merrrimack Ave., in Dracut. Tickets…
Read More »The week started off slowly with no sales in Lowell on Monday or Tuesday but things certainly picked up by the end of the week: February 24, 2014 – Monday no sales February 25, 2014 – Tuesday no sales February 26, 2014 – Wednesday 237 Third St Unit A for…
Read More »I wasn’t sorry to see February come to an end but when I stepped out the door yesterday and found that March had arrived with air chilled to 3 degrees and talk of more snow tomorrow, I already started to looking forward to April. When I posted my council meeting…
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