LOWELL Family and service above self were the themes of the new City Council, which was inaugurated in a ceremony at Lowell Memorial Auditorium Tuesday morning. Councilor Dan Rourke was elected mayor of the body by a majority of his peers, and Councilor Paul Ratha Yem was unanimously selected by his colleagues to be vice chair. Both noted the support of their families to serve the city.
LOWELL The Salvation Army in Lowell was joined by nearly 250 supporters as it kicked off its iconic Red Kettle fundraising campaign for 2023 at the 31st annual Greater Lowell Christmas Castle Breakfast on Nov. 3.
LOWELL Getting from A to Z and back again just got a lot easier for employees in MassHire’s service area, thanks to a pilot program that officially launched on Monday in partnership with QRyde called “Get a $2 Ryde.”
AFTER GOV. Maura Healey’s state of emergency on the migrant crisis in the commonwealth, followed by the news that UMass Lowell’s Inn & Conference Center was being considered as a housing site for those families, Lowell’s business and political leadership issued a series of statements on the crisis.
LOWELL A longstanding partnership between Middlesex Community College and UMass Lowell may result in the college playing a future role in the university’s Inn & Conference Center, which the Healey-Driscoll administration confirmed on Tuesday was under discussion as emergency migrant family housing.