Posts Tagged “mayors”

Electing Lowell’s Mayor: 1966-2018

January 5, 2020 by DickH Posted in City Council Leave a Comment

The first act of the incoming Lowell City Council at tomorrow’s inauguration ceremony will be to elect the city’s next mayor. The process involves each councilor when called upon announcing his or her candidate for mayor. The first councilor to receive five votes becomes mayor. Here are brief sketches of…

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Some Mayoral History

January 5, 2014 by Marie Posted in Election 2013, History, Politics Leave a Comment

These early days of January 2014  are days of mayoral inaugurations. Yesterday – after winning a squeaker over the former controversial mayor – it was Dan Rivera  in Lawrence and there’s the upcoming  swearing-in of Marty Walsh – the first new mayor of Boston in twenty years. Monday will see a new…

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