The Lowell Citizen

18/10/2024

https://insidelowell.com/accomplished-admiral-returns-to-mill-city/

Lowell – The City of Lowell, in collaboration with the Parker Lecture Series and UMass Lowell is proud to present Admiral Michael Gilday, a distinguished native of Lowell, on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 6:30PM, at UMass Lowell’s Comley-Lane Theatre, located at 870 Broadway St. This special e...

17/05/2024

This year's Budget Presentation is out:

https://www.lowellma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/28012?fileID=56803

Last year the proposed tax increase was clearly stated. This year it's not there. There is however, a slide comparing Lowell's taxes to Weston and Brookline.

Interesting.

24/04/2024

https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-april-24-2024/

Finally, a meeting worth recapping! Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Government was happening. Let’s take a look. 1. The Loophole-y Companies Kindly allow me to cut and paste from my last recap of what is (or, more accurately, what is not) happening in the HCD: In the…

18/04/2024

by Brendan Akashian Boomer Baseball teams competed this weekend against top programs from across New England, while our 8U softball team kicked off its season on the diamond. These are our top performances from this past week. 9U Baseball Blake Doucette starred pitching, catching, and hitting throug...

27/03/2024

https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-march-26-2024/

1. End of First Quarter of 2024 Last night marked the end of the first quarter of the year for our council. After twelve weeks, I’m struggling to find the words to describe this term. As baseball season is upon us, I’ll reach into the mixed bag (at best) of…

06/03/2024

https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-march-5-2024/

1. LHS Wrestlers Honored At the top of the meeting, the Council took time to honor the 2023/2024 Lowell High Girls Wrestling Team. For the first time in the long and storied history of the Lowell High Wrestling program, the school had an all-girls team. Our athletes introduced themselves to…

14/02/2024

https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-february-13-2024/

Somehow, someway, our Council and Administration made it through yesterday’s snow drifts to re-open City Hall and complete a meeting. A quick and tidy meeting begets a quick and messy blog. Let’s take a look… 1. Senior Center Councilor Gitschier kicked things off seeking a point of personal pr...

07/02/2024

https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-february-6-2024/

Government was happening last night. The cold dark days of January have been replaced by the cold, slightly less dark days of February and the Council seems to be coming out of its winter slumber. The agenda was packed with things to chew on, so I’ll have to skip around to…

24/01/2024

https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-january-23-2024/

1. January is a Pit of Despair Thankfully we have playoff football, Bruins hockey, and council meetings to see us through. As to those council meetings, we had an absurdly long agenda to work our way through last night. As you may be aware, there’s been some talk in the local news…

18/01/2024

https://youtu.be/f_HrKVHd5MA?si=P4B4ekONW6o8bGZm

Insiders Jack Mitchell and Ryan Gilday, aka the Lowell Citizen, join Teddy to break down the latest political happenings in the city. Among the topics covere...

03/01/2024

1. New Year, New Term Welcome back friends. Last night kicked off a new council term. We saw the debut of Mayor Dan Rourke, the addition of Councilor John Descoteaux, and the return of Councilor Chau to the House of Commons. In addition, Councilor Robinson appeared in-person for the first…

15/01/2023

From the Preamble of our Commonwealth’s Constitution – “The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for th...

06/01/2023

https://insidelowell.com/master-plan-input-sought/

07/12/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/12/council-meeting-recap-december-6-2022/

Government was happening last night – here's my highlights: Last Thursday, some crackpot had a post about parking wherein the City's Comprehensive 2021 Parking Study was referenced.

16/11/2022

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 - 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
The Lowell Citizen - 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗮𝘆

Click here: https://insidelowell.com/council-meeting-recap-november-15-2022/

12/10/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/10/council-mtg-recap-october-11-2022/

Last night, we were treated to a brief meeting and light agenda. Nothing too earth-shattering to speak of, so I'm going to try to make lemonade out of fire trucks and parking. Yikes.

05/10/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/10/council-mtg-recap-october-4-2022/

The most substantive item on last night's agenda was the roll-out of the administration's plan for the expenditure of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds. The city received a windfall of nearly 76…

28/09/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/09/council-mtg-recap-september-27-2022/

Not much discussion on a motion response relative to beginning an "Open Streets" program downtown. Nevertheless, this is good stuff. As per the response, Open Streets is a concept (and movement)…

15/09/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/09/council-meeting-recap-september-13-2022/

Last night was the first council meeting in three weeks. When the council last met on August 23, there were 19 motion responses, 20 new motions, 18 votes, 5 public utility hearings…

24/08/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/08/council-mtg-recap-august-23-2022/

Christine McCall, our Director of Planning and Development /Assistant City Manager received a citation as she will be leaving Lowell for a new position in the private sector.

05/08/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/08/checking-in-on-the-school-committee/

Jumping out of my lane to check-in on the August 3rd Special Meeting of the Lowell School Committee to discuss the 2021-2022 Evaluation of Superintendent Joel Boyd. Based on the following scale…

27/07/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/07/council-meeting-recap-july-26-2022/

Lacking other options and thus any leverage, the Council voted to 11-0 to sell LeLacheur to UMass Lowell for One Million Dollars. The vote was the culmination of approximately 18 months of negotiation…

13/07/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/07/council-mtg-recap-july-12-2022/

I missed about half of the live meeting, but was able to half-listen to most of what I missed on the LTC replay. As such, I'm skipping over several topics that are probably worthy of attention.

08/07/2022

https://thelowellcitizen.com/2022/07/agenda-items-for-7-12-22/

ORDINANCE – AMEND FEE SCHEDULE – ACCIDENT REPORT.PDF ORDINANCE – AMEND FEE SCHEDULE – ACCIDENT REPORT.PDF ORDINANCE – AMEND SELF-SERVICE GAS STATION C.155 S.13.PDF ORDINANCE – CREATE LPD REVOLVING…