LAST MONTH, the Honorable Joseph Ole Lenku, regional governor of the county of Kajiado, Kenya, and his wife, First Lady Edna Lenku, made an impromptu stop in Lowell to meet Mayor Sokhary Chau and fellow Kenyan Erastus Mwangi.
THE CITY cleared its third of at least a half dozen known homeless encampments this week, and while three times wasn’t exactly the charm, it did appear that the administration was applying lessons learned in its handling of this complex and growing demographic that has bedeviled larger and better-resourced cities.