For anyone who’s interested, here’s a copy of a flyer from the Visitor’s Center.  I know that Richard Howe’s Cemetery Tours are great fun but I have yet to be on any of the tours listed here.  We’re looking forward to checking some of them out!

There is paving overnight tonight on Market Street between 7:00 PM and 5:00 AM.  The street may be closed; access to the garage will be via Palmer Street.

Tomorrow night (Wednesday the 27th) is the Canal Place Annual Meeting at the Visitor’s Center starting at 7:00 PM. There will be elections for two Trustees and various other business. If you can’t attend, please fill out the proxy received in the mail a few weeks back and drop it in the office tonight or give it to someone you know who is attending so that they can leave it with Cathy at the meeting. A pdf of the proxy is here:  https://www.canalplaceone.com/cp1proxy.pdf

The city will be milling Market Street on May 20th from 7 PM to 5 AM.  Police details will be on duty to direct traffic.  Access to the garage will be via Palmer Street.  Please take this into account if you have any plans to go out Wednesday evening.

The road work schedule linked to the last post has been updated with additional info.

Hopefully, we’re far enough back from the street that it won’t be too noisy and we can sleep!

For those who haven’t noticed, the AC is working again.

The city is going to be doing road repairs to our winter-weary streets. More info can be found here.

The latest masonry report can be found here.

Doors Open is this coming weekend.  Lots of interesting buildings will be open for a look-see!

And don’t forget the upcoming Annual Meeting for Canal Place at the Visitor’s Center on Wednesday, the 27th at 7:00! Two seats on the board are up for grabs so come and vote, or better yet, consider serving on the board yourself.

Just a reminder:  After carefully telling people not to leave their windows open if they were in an area targeted for repointing, I forgot.  For the benefit of people on the front side of the building who would prefer not to spend their evening cleaning mortar dust out of everything, do NOT leave your windows open and tootle off to work for the day.

In case you’ve been wondering, the word from Cathy is that repairs are underway on the air conditioning and notices will go up on the bulletin boards letting us know as soon as the tower is functioning.  (Thanks Kate for forwarding this info!)

The management has asked me to post a reminder to keep your doors locked. Someone recently entered the building through the open garage door and started asking residents for money. And we all know how hard it can be to keep people from slipping into the building when someone else is entering. Unless you know someone to be a resident, please don’t open/hold the door for them.  The building is only as secure as we make it.

Spring has arrived and the brick repointing has started up again. There’s a notice on the lobby bulletin board with more specifics, but be aware that you may want to cover your windows for privacy. As of this afternoon, there were cables and workmen going past my window on the fourth floor, front side of the building. I might also suggest seeing that your windows are closed during the day unless you’re sure your unit is outside of the work area; the repointing kicks up a fair amount of dust.

Lowell Downtown Neighborhood Association will be having their monthly meeting Monday evening at 7:00 at LTC, 246 Market Street. The minutes from last month’s meeting and the agenda for this month’s can be found at ldna01852.org There’s mention in the March minutes about an interesting app in the works for this summer that will let you know just where the LRTA busses are when so you can time your arrival at the bus stop exactly.

There’s also an announcement at the LDNA site about an Earth Day cleanup this Saturday, the 25th, 8:30 to 11:30. Downtown residents are invited to meet at Mack Plaza and help the Lowell Canalwater Cleaners. For more info, see the link above. And there’s a call out for volunteers to supervise high schoolers for a cleanup on May 2nd as well.

In addition to all that, unless I’m mistaken, there should be a Board meeting at 7:00 Monday evening in the lobby office.  Residents welcome.

Just another reminder about testing tomorrow. Not a good day to plan on sleeping in!

A quick note: Now is the time to get that permission slip filled out and drop it off at the office (I just filled mine out and stuck it with my keys to go downstairs with me tomorrow morning). The slip is due by Friday and alarm testing is scheduled for next Tuesday.