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"Yesterday's
turnout of 12,827 (32 percent) beat the previous low for a local
election set in 1981 of 18,149 (45 percent)."
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Robert Kennedy was
elected mayor. Joseph Tully was city manager.
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Newcomer Kathleen Kelley
was the first woman elected to the city council since 1973 (Ellen
Sampson & Gail Dunfey)
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Kelley was also just the
fifth candidate to make the jump from the school committee to the city
council on the first try. The others were Gus Coutu, John Janas,
Victor Forsley and Wayne Peters.
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In the school committee
race, 24-year old newcomer Regina Faticanti jumped to third place
after a seventh place finish in the primary.
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Faticanti joined
incumbents Kathryn
Stoklosa, Gerald Durkin, George Kouloheras, David Allen and George
O'Hare on the school committee.
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Kouloheras, who had
finished seventh in the prior election, joined the school committee
when John Reid resigned.
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The sixth school
committee incumbent, Kathleen Kelley, did not seek re-election,
running successfully for the city council instead.
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Through most of 1986 and
early 1987, the city pursued plans to allow BFI to construct a 2500
ton per day trash-to-energy incinerator on Stedman Street. The
plant was strongly supported by the Tully Administration and the
Lowell Sun and early council votes were 8-1 in favor of it, but strong
neighborhood opposition in the Highlands led the council to
unanimously kill the proposal in the spring of 1987.