Lowell’s election results demonstrated the advantage of incumbency, especially when so few voters bother to cast a ballot. It also marked a setback for the aspirations of what can be generally viewed as the new breed of city politicians, who failed to win either an additional City Council or School Committee seat.
BY TUESDAY at 8 p.m., when the polls close in Lowell, the 2023 election for the City Council and School Committee races will be over, and a new era of governing in the city will begin in January 2024.
LOWELL The team in the Food & Nutrition Department of the Lowell Public Schools feeds almost 15,000 students two meals a day for 180 days of the school year, including ethnically diverse offerings such as egg roll in a bowl.
LOWELL One Lowell Public Schools superintendent, two city solicitors, three high-level city attorneys, more than a dozen City Council and School Committee meetings and almost $100,000 later, the yearlong and much-hyped outside investigation into allegations of unfair or unlawful hiring practices in the district plods on.