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One view of Jeff Speck’s “Downtown Evolution Plan”
Local blogger Corey Sciuto shares his thoughts on the recent presentation at the Lowell Plan breakfast by nationally-noted urban planner Jeff Speck who has a vision for downtown Lowell.
Read More »More Kerouac Festival Reporting
Today’s SUN includes an eloquently written article by Rita Savard about Jack Kerouac’s roots in Centralville, specifically St. Louis de France parish. She accompanied a group of people on a Sunday morning walking tour that was guided by the orginator of the tours of Kerouac literary sites, Roger Brunelle. He led four tours at this year’s Kerouac…
Read More »Shady foreclosure practices come to light
There have been a succession of news stories such as this one in yesterday’s New York Times detailing how major mortgage lenders around the country are freezing all foreclosure activity so they can review their methods of conducting foreclosures. Some of the abuses that have been exposed include lender employees…
Read More »More images of “The Sun”
Tony Sampas shares more views of “The Sun”
Read More »Tuesday Trivia
Another installment of our Lowell trivia questions. The answers will be posted tomorrow. 6) What Lowell boxer represented the United States at the 1924 Olympic Games? 7) Which country’s national anthem was written by a person who lived in Lowell? 8) How many Roman Catholic churches in Lowell were originally…
Read More »Is Caritas Deal Near – With Conditions?
October 5, 2010
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Marie
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The Globe is reporting in today’s edition that after some stormy weeks of negotiations, changes in funding, greater deficit and shortfall discoveries – that Caritas Christi Health Care buy out by the for-profit Cerberus Capital Management firm has been salvaged. The buy-out agreement is subject to a review and conditions imposed…
Read More »Meehan Says “Not Interested in Suffolk Presidency”
In today’s edition of the Boston Herald Jessica Heslam writes about a struggle for the top job at Suffolk University where the combatants – veterans of the political slog – both claim “nay – nay.” Both former Boston City Councilor John Nucci and former Member of Congress Marty Meehan deny…
Read More »Cellucci and Loscocco: Two Quitters
Earlier today I noticed that Paul Cellucci had endorsed Jon Golnik, the Republican candidate for the 5th Congressional District. I remember two things about Paul Cellucci. At the Lowell Memorial Auditorium back in 1998 during a gubernatorial debate, when Scott Harshbarger raised doubts about the “Big Dig”, Cellucci pounded the…
Read More »Keeping Things in Perspective: Sea & Sky
AOL.COM News reports on the “first ocean life census,” which revealed “6,000 new species.” Who says there’s nothing new under the sun? Read the news here. This is also International Space Week. Here are some suggestions for celebrating from 944.com. To learn more about Space Week, visit the home on the web.…
Read More »Their Festival’s Bigger than Ours
We like the Lowell Folk Festival, which is a big event for our mid-sized city. San Francisco this past weekend hosted its annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which drew about 600,000 people to Golden Gate Park. Some of the performers who were in S.F. have played stages in Lowell, including…
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