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“Lowell Places” is a new category of blog posts that will appear from time-to-time to tell the story of buildings, parks, bridges and other structures of historical interest in Lowell, Massachusetts. Incorporated as a town in 1826 and a city in 1836, the rapid growth of Lowell brought an increase…
Read More »Real Estate Trends: Prices Up With 2018 nearly half over, some trends in local real estate have become apparent. For the entire Middlesex North District (which consists of Lowell, Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and Wilmington), the number of sales from January 2018 through the end of…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on the past week in Lowell: This week’s City Council meeting had two separate discussions on marijuana. With the impending launching of the recreational cannabis industry, the Councilors have begun to count the tax revenue that is estimated to be generated by these sales. There…
Read More »From hand-copied book pages in cursive to digital images that have never existed on paper, the records at the Registry of Deeds have become more accessible through the evolution of information technology. Here’s the story of how that has happened at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds: One of the…
Read More »This is the 58th installment of my Lowell in World War One series which commemorates the centennial of the entry of the United States into World War One. Here are the headlines from one hundred years ago for the past week: June 10, 1918 – Monday – Germans suffer enormous…
Read More »Because of my Register of Deeds re-election campaign, I’ve been out of the house the past few Tuesday nights and have not been able to watch the live telecasts of Lowell City Council meetings and so there have been no notes posted. But I have not forsaken that practice. I…
Read More »Tomorrow (June 13, 2018) at 10:30 a.m. at the Chelmsford Senior Center, 75 Groton Road, North Chelmsford, I will present a free Homestead Seminar for anyone who is interested. By filing a Declaration of Homestead at the Registry of Deeds, homeowners protect their homes from creditors. The process if simple:…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian previews this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: If the City Council agenda was a magazine, this week it would be called the Budget Issue. It is all about money, how we are going to raise and more importantly how we are going to spend it. Although it is…
Read More »Campaign Reception Tomorrow night (Monday, June 11, 2018 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm) is my re-election campaign reception at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell. Donations in any amount are welcome but not necessary. Please stop by if you can. Happy Birthday, Lowell National Historical…
Read More »Mimi Parseghian shares her observations on the past week in Lowell: June is a hectic month in Lowell. There are so many public social, cultural and educational activities planned. However, municipal government will slow down now that the summer schedule has begun. The City Council meetings will take place every…
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