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Lowell Week in Review: October 12, 2014

Governor Patrick Coming to Lowell Governor Deval Patrick will be in Lowell this coming Tuesday, October 14 at 11:30 a.m. at the end of Jackson Street to provide an update on the $15 million state-funded project to re-design the Lord Overpass.  Besides easing that traffic bottleneck the Overpass work will…

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Lowell City Council Meeting: October 7, 2014

Disability commission will now provide close captioning of city council meetings on LTC. Council recesses regular meeting and resumes special meeting to elect a member of the Regional Vocational School Committee to fill the vacancy that occurred when Erik Gitschier resigned after being hired as head of the Lowell Water…

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Lowell Week in Review: October 5, 2014

Belanger for Baker The very close race for governor of Massachusetts between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker landed in Lowell earlier in the week when Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito visited the city.  She was escorted through the Hamilton Canal District by City Councilor Corey Belanger…

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Textile Memorial dedication ceremony

Cadets from the UMass Lowell Air Force and Army ROTC detachments joined members of the Greater Lowell Veterans Council, local elected officials, representatives of the UMass Lowell Office of Veterans Affairs and family members of a Lowell Tech student killed in action during World War Two to dedicate the new…

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