Current Events

Lowell City Manager Presents Strategic Goals and Objectives “Draft”

From Lowell City Manager Bernie Lynch’s “Office of  the City Manager Blog” – Last evening, I presented a draft of the adminstration’s strategic goals and objectives before the Personnel Subcommittee.  The subcommittee plans to reconvene in two weeks and submit comments and feedback which will be incorporated into the final…

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Gateway Cities, MassINC, & the Globe

Lowell resident and MassINC Executive Vice President John Schneider has been pushing the Gateway Cities initiative. Read the message that he and his colleague Ben Forman recently released. For details on MassINC’s Gateway Cities Education Summit in Worcestor on Feb. 4,  visit www.massinc.org The Gateway Cities Globe moment This past Thanksgiving day, The Boston Globe began a…

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Lura Smith and Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Lowell

From Nanyce Tuttle’s 2004 Lowell Sun interview with “Local Hero” Lura Smith: Each year, the biggest and best day in Lura Smith’s busy life is Martin Luther King Day. It’s the day that Smith, the elegant, effervescent assistant to Middlesex Community College President Carole Cowan, plans for all year long…

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