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 For the previous 15 years, this 5,500-square-foot blocked-off section of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell held what Executive Director Joe Hungler described as an empty "rusted out pool." On Thursday, that formerly decayed old space was once again accessible and alive.
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 The care and welfare of the migrant families expected to come to the Mill City was top of Councilor Vesna Nuon’s mind during Tuesday night's meeting.
The other major theme of the worked-up Democrats was the alleged attempt of Republicans "to destroy our democracy.” And that means to fight off “the dark forces of Trumpism,” according to Senate President Karen Spilka.