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  City Councilor Benjamin Lamb announced via Facebook on Monday that he would not be seeking a fifth term this fall.    "This is a decision long in the making and due to a number of factors, but the reason I am announcing now, relatively early by most standards, is specifically because I want to help others who, for their first time, may be seeking to run for City Council," he wrote.    The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts graduate was first elected in 2013, part of the wave of younger candidates who began populating the council nearly a decade ago. Lamb has consistently place...

  Pedercini had apprised councilors at the beginning of November that she would be departing to take up the post of executive director of the Lee Housing Authority. The council on Tuesday night formally voted to accept her resignation.   "I have said to Debbie in person, but I'll say it publicly that I am sad to see her go and honestly, these meetings would not happen without her work," Council President Paul Hopkins said on Tuesday. "It would grind to a halt in about 10 minutes."   A search committee has already been formed, which includes former clerk Marilyn Gomeau, and has met tw...

Words by Benjamin Lamb Spinifex Gum will perform as part of Live at the Bowl on Friday January 8. Spinifex Gum began as a musical collaboration between The Cat Empire’s Ollie McGill and Felix Riebl with the Marliya Choir. Following an invitation to Western Australia’s Pilbara region and an encounter with a group of wonderful vocalists, Spinifex Gum was born. “I was invited to go the Pilbara and meet this group of young singers, who would go on to become the Marliya Choir, and front Spinifex Gum,” Riebl says. In a year where there’s been so little on the live music front, 2021 is goi...