LOWELL Could a new, boutique-style hotel be in Downtown Lowell’s future? And will the Sal Lupoli Companies finally break ground on their long-planned development of prime real estate along the Hamilton Canal off Dutton and Canal Streets?
LOWELL The imprisonment of political prisoners in Cambodia, including Cambodian-American citizen and lawyer Theary Seng, was the subject of a letter sent by Sen. Ed Markey to Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this month.
EVER SINCE Lowell City Councilor Corey Robinson was arraigned in November at Lowell District Court on two counts of alleged domestic assault and battery on a household/family member, his private legal peril has dominated the people’s business.
LOWELL U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan’s relentless campaign to hold New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the largest and most prestigious art museums in the world, accountable for its collection of allegedly looted art from Cambodia paid off when the museum voluntarily agreed to the return of 13 Khmer antiquities to the Kingdom of Cambodia.
LOWELL Millions have reacted to the news of the passing of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger since it was announced Nov. 29, with many quick to note his achievements like the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China and pulling the U.S. out of the Vietnam War. To many more, and many still who cannot speak for themselves today because of his actions, Kissinger’s legacy is a much darker one. For a large part of Lowell’s population, that dark legacy is a personal one.