THERE ARE new faces filling Downtown Lowell stores and streets as newly arrived migrant families to the Inn & Conference Center are exploring their new city. Even as the initial fervor over the migrants’ arrival has settled down, it looks like at least one candidate may make migrants and migrations a campaign issue.
WESTFORD Hundreds of voters gathered on the Westford Academy football field Saturday for the annual Town Meeting, where they voted to approve next year’s budget with an override to prevent dozens of town positions from being cut.
Mass. Mills in downtown Lowell and The Mill complex at 73 Princeton St. in North Chelmsford demonstrate how to create residential and commercial uses out of structures no longer needed for their intended purpose. In Westford, an infusion of federal funds will help that town move a step closer to redeveloping its last vacant mill building.