Left In Lowell

Yesterday I, along with dozens of others, attended the Vision Session III of the Hamilton Canal District reinvention. The charette was hosted by the City and http://www.trinityfinancial.com/home.html Trinity Financial, the master developers for the urban renewal plan.

You can read a good account of the presentation in today’s Sun thanks to the ubiquitous Jennifer Myers (Friday night she covered the Superintendent interviews for the paper).

Although the highlight of the program was Trinity’s explanation of the plan formulation followed by the architect’s presentation, I found the “Traffic” presentation made by Woodland Design of great interest. Needless to say, there will be some major changes to help the flow of traffic into and out of that area. (more…)

Friday night, the Lowell School Committee held the second of two Special Meetings to interview the four final candidates for the position of Lowell School Superintendent.

Lowell Telecommunications Corporation has already posted the four interviews on their web site (nice work LTC staff). If you have some time or want to catch part of the interviews, at least try to catch their opening and closing statements, here are the four links:

Paul Schlichtman

Wendy Jack

Portia Selene Bonner

Chris Augusta Scott

I watched the four interviews and attended the special Monday night meeting where the School Committee discussed and decided on the procedure of these interviews. (more…)