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TYNGSBORO — The town has seen an increase in state aid funding of only 2% in the last decade although the state budget has grown substantially in that time period, Town Manager Matt Hanson said at a recent tri-board meeting.

On Thursday, the Massachusetts House voted 128–26 to gut a law passed by the voters that provided tax relief to the working classes on those rare occasions when the Commonwealth collected too much money.

As he gears up to run his first Boston Marathon, Greater Lowell Tech coach Rene "Butch" Dion, Jr. will be keeping pace with a purpose.

The full House couldn't find a single thing they wanted to change in a nearly $1.1 billion tax relief bill on Thursday, instead lining up behind the exact proposal that House Democrats pushed through a committee two days earlier.

DRACUT — The town was awarded $9,999 from the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association, the nonprofit insurance arm of the Massachusetts Municipal Association and Dracut’s property and casualty insurance provider.

The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

TYNGSBORO — Police say a Lowell driver was allegedly drag racing just prior to a violent two-vehicle crash on Pawtucket Boulevard on Sunday night that left a 63-year-old Dracut man with serious injuries.

Local residents may be among 16 $100,000 winners in the same Keno game that took place Monday night.

LOWELL — Homelessness in Lowell is back on the City Council’s agenda for its April 11 meeting — this time not as a council motion or departmental report, but as a citizens' petition that requests input to the city’s decision and policy-making process on the issue.

Massachusetts police are warning the public about a new TikTok trend that recently left 10 children hospitalized.