STAND AT the counter of the clerk magistrate’s office on the second floor of Lowell District Court long enough and you’ll hear the stories of people abused by their intimate partners, as well as stalked and harassed by strangers.
BILLERICA A lawsuit was filed against the Billerica Select Board Monday in response to the board’s Oct. 26 vote to reject a petition that would have triggered a townwide vote on the controversial town center project.
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.
A petition to bring a controversial plan to renovate Billerica’s town center to a direct town wide vote has gathered about 1,000 signatures as of Monday morning after representatives at the fall Town Meeting approved the plan last week.
A plan to construct a new consolidated Department of Public Works facility in Billerica moved one step closer as representatives at night two of the annual fall Town Meeting overwhelmingly approved $50 million in funding for the project.