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December 9, 2013 – Monday 62 Corinthian Dr for $365,000. Prior sale in 1999 for $193,135 89 Fremont St for $180,000. Prior sale in 2001 for $168,000 December 10, 2013 – Tuesday 398 Westford St for $220,000. Prior sale in 1972 75 Gates St for $152,000. Prior sale in 2009…
Read More »Here are some observations on the past week in Lowell politics. Most of the items covered below come from last Tuesday’s City Council meeting which I covered in detail in a previous post. Downtown Businesses The item that dominated the discussion at last Tuesday’s City Council meeting was the state…
Read More »Linda Biehl of California was the first Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell in 2008. She was on campus and in the community for three weeks, meeting people, talking, sharing her remarkable, inspiring, and challenging story. Her daughter was a casualty in the sometime violent struggle to end…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The marquee of the Citi Center for the Performing Arts, still known as the Wang, was lit up on Wednesday evening. In bold colors and a dominating photo it read “Hubie80!” For years now, Boston has known that…
Read More »The African Cultural Association of Greater Lowell in collaboration with the Lowell Community Charter Public School organized a memorial celebration in honor of the late Nelson Mandela tonight at the Charter School on Jackson Street in Lowell. The fast moving program consisted of speeches, music, dancing and a video tribute.…
Read More »“For preventing disorders, arising in several places within this jurisdiction by reason of some still observing such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other communities, to the great dishonor of God and offense of others: it is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be…
Read More »Today was trash pickup day in the Highlands and a few people were overly anxious to use their new green recycling bins. The small sampling of the neighborhood streets I was on revealed that maybe one out of ten households had the green containers out with their maroon trash containers…
Read More »Thirty-six years ago tonight a fire broke out in a dormitory at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. Ten students died in the fire. I was a sophomore at the school at the time and memories of the fire and its aftermath stay with me today. I wrote a blog…
Read More »Scene for a cold morning. “Pastel Snowfall” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
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