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Sorry, but I wasn’t able to watch the November 26, 2013 city council meeting either live or later online due to a busy Thanksgiving week. By combing through last week’s and this week’s city council packets, I was able to find a couple of responses to motions that looked interesting.…
Read More »Here are real estate sales in Lowell from the past week: November 25, 2013 – Monday 68 Hovey Place for $287,500. Prior sale in 1999 for $247,000 83 Midland St for $155,000. Prior sale in 1980 172 Branch St for $258,000. Prior sale 2013 foreclosure 50 Columbia Rd for $334,900.…
Read More »Anyone who has walked down Kirk Street in Lowell has caught sight of the large green clock attached to the side of Lowell High School. It was the gift of the LHS classes of 1937, 1938 and 1939 and it was installed on June 23, 1937 by the O.B. McClintock…
Read More »Wednesday’s NY Times included an opinion column by Nicholas Kristof in which he wondered about a lack of empathy in today’s society, especially regarding children in need. Read the essay here, and consider getting the NYT if you want more of this kind of writing.
Read More »Beginning on Monday, Waste Management will begin delivering our new 96 gallon recycling carts to prepare for the January 1, 2014 commencement of single stream recycling in Lowell. Single stream means that all recyclable items will go into the same container. These include glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, jugs…
Read More »We have a new poem by Tom Sexton of Lowell and Alaska and Maine.—PM . The Last Sunday Train Little did I know back then when I walked beside my father to the old North Station, after Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain pitched a doubleheader, that the Boston Braves would…
Read More »In her 1982 book, “Surviving Hard Times: The Working People of Lowell,” historian Mary Blewett has a chapter about policies in the city of Lowell towards the poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here is part of what she wrote: Poverty was regarded, in almost all cases,…
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Read More »The following letter was sent to the Lowell City Council, City Manager, Conservation Commission, Planning Board, and Lowell Historic Board–PM On behalf of the executive committee of the Lowell Heritage Partnership, I am writing to City of Lowell officials to request that they make every effort to protect a unique…
Read More »In yesterday’s Lowell Week in Review blog post I wrote this about the Jerathmell Bowers House: Constructed in 1673 at what is now the corner of Westford and Wood Streets in Lowell, the Jerathmell Bowers House is said to be the oldest structure in the city. There has been a…
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