Federal Highway Administration officials have decreed that electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny will be banned in 2026 because they can be misunderstood or distracting to drivers.
A while ago in this space we related the ordeal of Anthony Milisci, whose liver began to fail during his senior year at Greater Lowell Technical High School. And though his condition deteriorated, that all changed in April 2019, when the transplant of a donor’s liver gave him a new lease on life. Now a senior at UMass Lowell, he’s become a donor advocate, helping to inform people about the lifesaving opportunities of organ and tissue donation.
Federal Highway Administration officials have decreed that electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny will be banned in 2026 because they can be misunderstood or distracting to drivers.
DRACUT The state’s financial difficulties and the impact of inflation are putting more pressure on the town’s financial plight, according to Town Manager Ann Vandal’s recent report to the Board of Selectmen.
LOWELL Old and recurring accounting problems opened the new year as Lowell Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Billie Jo Turner presented the newly inaugurated School Committee with an almost 100-page packet of more than $400,000 of so-called bad bills.
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If the United States followed Singapore’s example, they’d be no urgency in promoting the need for organ donors, as was done at Lowell City Hall last week. In that southeast Asian country, all citizens above the age of 21 automatically become enrolled in an organ-donation program. Though well known for its high level of health care, Singapore had a […]
LOWELL Anthony Milisci’s liver began to fail in his senior year at Greater Lowell Technical High School. He experienced crushing fatigue, felt “crappy” and had jaundice, a condition in which bilirubin, a bile pigment, seeps into a person’s blood, turning their skin and eyes yellow.
LOWELL The MassHire Greater Lowell Connecting Activities team and the Greater Lowell Technical High School hosted a job fair at the tech school's campus in Tyngsboro on Nov. 7.