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Congressman John Tierney Visits Tewksbury this Morning
Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney represents the 6th Congressional District. In the recent redistricting based on the 2010 Census, the towns of Tewksbury and Billerica and part of a precinct in Andover were moved from Niki Tsongas’ old 5th District – now the 3rd District. Tierney has a reputation for being very accessible…
Read More »‘The Lowell Offering’ (1840 – 1845)
From WIKIPEDIA: The Lowell Offering was a monthly periodical collected contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female textile workers (young women [age 15-35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American industrial revolution. It began in 1840 and lasted until 1845. The Offering was initially organized in 1840 by the Reverend Abel…
Read More »‘Libraries Are About Freedom’
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. Author Neil Gaiman recently gave a talk…
Read More »Concession contract awarded for Lowell Memorial Auditorium
And the winner is . . . the Julian Lenzi Hospitality Group Inc. which is a combination of Lenzi’s Catering and RTJ Concessions, Inc. A selection committee of city officials and auditorium trustees has made the selection and the parties have agreed to a 3 year contract which provides, among…
Read More »Lowell real estate for week of Oct 21, 2013
Here are real estate sales in Lowell for the past week. For several months now there’s been a clearly discernible trend of most sales following into one of three loosely defined categories. First are sales of properties that have been owned by the same person or family for several decades.…
Read More »Light up your library on November 2
Thanks to Marianne Gries of the trustees of the Pollard Library for sharing the below information about this event. I was hoping you could post some information on your blog about the an event that is going to take place at the Pollard Library on Saturday, November 2nd. Light Up…
Read More »Merrimack and Northern Canal
Photo by Tony Sampas
Read More »CTI Honors “Blog Father” Dick Howe
Last Wednesday the founder of this blog Dick Howe – widely known these days as the “blog father” – was honored by Community Teamwork at the 2013 Community Action Awards ~ Special Tribute to Innovative Communicators. CTI Board President Germaine Vigeant-Trudel offered these words about Dick Howe as she presented the…
Read More »Upcoming East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group Meetings
The East Pawtucketville Neighborhood Group has scheduled the following meetings: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 7 pm Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7 pm All meetings take place at the McAvinnue School at 131 Mammoth Road. Topics to be discussed are neighborhood issues and planning for the 2nd Annual Franco-American…
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