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LOWELL — Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts last August due to the rapidly rising number of migrant families in need of shelter and services. Some of those families are coming to or already have arrived in Lowell. Here is a quick rundown of what’s currently known about the families who have been moving to Lowell since early January.
LOWELL — More migrant families living in Massachusetts are expected to arrive at UMass Lowell's Inn & Conference Center over the next month from facilities in Fairhaven, Swansea and Waltham after the first group arrived from their temporary home at a Billerica hotel last week.
LOWELL — To mark the 60th anniversary of St. Joseph the Worker Shrine in 2016, then-Shrine Director, the Rev. Terry O’Connell of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, established the annual Christian Worker Award.
IT WAS a night of fond — and bittersweet — farewells to three members of the Lowell School Committee during its Dec. 6 meeting.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts School Building Authority board voted Wednesday to invite the school districts of Chelmsford and Westford into an eligibility period for school building projects, and as well as approved a project funding agreement for Lowell Public Schools.