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LOWELL Ever since he posted the “Coalition Against Tyranny” petition Jan. 11, almost 1,300 people have signed Kendrick Del Orbe’s Change.org petition urging Lowell Public Schools to reconsider its cellphone lockbox policy, which is scheduled to be implemented Jan. 24.
LOWELL Old and recurring accounting problems opened the new year as Lowell Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Billie Jo Turner presented the newly inaugurated School Committee with an almost 100-page packet of more than $400,000 of so-called bad bills.
LOWELL Family and service above self were the themes of the new City Council, which was inaugurated in a ceremony at Lowell Memorial Auditorium Tuesday morning. Councilor Dan Rourke was elected mayor of the body by a majority of his peers, and Councilor Paul Ratha Yem was unanimously selected by his colleagues to be vice chair. Both noted the support of their families to serve the city.