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2012 Lowell City Council Inauguration

January 3, 2012 by DickH Posted in Lowell, City Council Leave a Comment

I caught a portion of today’s Lowell City Council inaugural ceremony on LTC. Things started shortly after 10 am from the Council Chamber with the Lowell High JROTC Color Guard posting the colors and the Lowell High chorus singing the National Anthem. Rev. Paul Ouellette of St Patrick’s Church then…

Lowell’s Chin Lee Restaurant and Some History

January 3, 2012 by Marie Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Politics 10 Comments

Thanks to reader Maxine Farcus for forwarding this great 1949 holiday-time photo showing Lowell’s first and longtime favorite “downtown” Chinese restaurant Chin Lee’s. The sign is at Kearney Square marking an earlier location. By the time it closed it was located on Merrimack Street upstairs on the 2nd floor adjacent to…