DOMINIK LAY had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day last month. (Apologies to children’s book author Judith Viorst, from whom that line is appropriated.)
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.
LOWELL The School Committee heard from Interim Superintendent of Schools Liam Skinner that the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center may be used as a way station for migrant families in preparation for permanent living placements, although he cautioned that all the information that he has is “speculation” based on information from community partners.
THE BILLERICA Select Board voted 4-1 Sept. 11 to allow a “pro-life” flag to fly at the Billerica Public Library from Oct. 16 to Oct. 31, per a request by a group of residents who wanted to fly the flag for “Pro-Life Month.” There was one thing, however, that was completely missing from the discussion over whether to fly a pro-life flag on a public flagpole: Abortion.