Rex Radloff News Today

LOWELL — At the Aug. 16 School Committee meeting, Wendy Crocker-Roberge, the newly appointed interim chief schools officer, briefed the members on a six-point school reopening report, which included updates in the key focus areas of administrative staffing, school-based staffing, facilities preparation, technology deployment, curriculum provisioning and transportation.

LOWELL — Tuesday is the opening day of the 2023-2024 Lowell Public School year, and Lowell High students are retuning to a much-transformed campus, said Rex Radloff, a project executive with Suffolk Construction, the lead company on the six-year, $381 million project.

The sticker shock associated with price spikes caused by the COVID-19 epidemic became obvious to anyone in charge of a household budget. Now imagine how those accelerating prices affected the costs of multimillion-dollar construction projects.

LOWELL — Lowell High School Athletic Director Dave Lezenski, who was put on leave in January for reasons that remain unclear, has resigned his position, according to a spokesperson for the School Department.