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LOWELL — Family and service above self were the themes of the new City Council, which was inaugurated in a ceremony at Lowell Memorial Auditorium Tuesday morning. Councilor Dan Rourke was elected mayor of the body by a majority of his peers, and Councilor Paul Ratha Yem was unanimously selected by his colleagues to be vice chair. Both noted the support of their families to serve the city.

The newest term of the Lowell School Committee is underway as the committee’s new lineup was inaugurated Tuesday afternoon in the City Council chambers.

LOWELL — Hot off his Tuesday night election win, Mayor Sokhary Chau is laying out a political path that he hopes will take him to a state-level office in the Middlesex County Register of Deeds, but it just as easily might land him in the hot seat.

LOWELL — City Councilor Corey Robinson was a no-show at Tuesday night's council meeting, leaving open the question of whether his absence was related to a call by many of Robinson's colleagues for him to step aside pending resolution of his legal issues.

LOWELL — City Councilor Corey Robinson’s fellow councilors pushed back Monday on his statement that he had “no intention” of stepping down from his District 2 seat representing the Centralville neighborhood following his arraignment last week in Lowell District Court on two charges of assault and battery on a family/household member.

While there’s no way to know if Lowell’s results would have differed if more majority-minority district residents had shown up at the polls, their lack of participation did signify one of the many symptoms contributing to the ailing state of municipal elections.

LOWELL — Hot off his Tuesday night election win, Mayor Sokhary Chau is laying out a political path that he hopes will take him to a state-level office, but it just as easily might land him in the hot seat.

Lowell’s election results demonstrated the advantage of incumbency, especially when so few voters bother to cast a ballot. It also marked a setback for the aspirations of what can be generally viewed as the new breed of city politicians, who failed to win either an additional City Council or School Committee seat. 

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