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August 5, 2013 – Monday 210 Smith St Unit 2 for $49,735 (2011 Foreclosure deed for $132,289) 313 High St for $115,199 (2010 Foreclosure deed for $245,000) August 6, 2013 – Tuesday 153 School St for $258,000 (2012 for $150,500) August 7, 2013 – Wednesday 182 Wentworth Ave for $388,000…
Read More »Meeting a United States Senator in person is rare for most people, me included, so yesterday was an unusual experience for me because I spent some time with our junior senator, Ed Markey, not once but twice: first in the morning here in Lowell and then in the evening at…
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Read More »Dr. Joseph D. Sweeney – born February 5.1904 -one of nine surviving children of Felix and Catherine Sweeney – well-known and highly regarded physician and surgeon – died on August 9, 1963 – 50 years ago today. Born, raised, resided in the Sacred Heart parish, he was a proud alum of…
Read More »“Garden Path” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »There was some buzz and rattle on the web yesterday when the online appliance of a venerable magazine with a Boston root system, The Atlantic, posted a fizzy report about a made-up episode in the life and times of John L. Kerouac, all of it putting Lowell in the news…
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Read More »There’s always that Lowell connection! George Price – current Superintendent of the Cape Cod National Seashore Park was formerly a Deputy Superintendent in Lowell. Today MassMoments reminds us that it was on this day fifty years ago – August 7, 1961 that President John F. Kennedy signed the bill authorizing the…
Read More »Sorry but I’m not going to make any order-of-finish predictions for the city council primary. The headline was just a cheap trick to get you to read this post. I do have some thoughts on the fact that there will be a primary, assuming a few of the 21 individuals…
Read More »The entry below is cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Federal Reserve may not be the center of the solar system, but it is a key inflection point in American politics and, through its interest rate policies, can have a profound impact on the nation’s economy. The Fed…
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