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Billerica High’s first term honor roll
1+ hour, 29+ min ago BILLERICA " Billerica Memorial High School has announced its honor roll for the first term of the 2025-2026 school year. BILLERICA " Billerica Memorial High School has announced its honor roll for the first term of the 2025-2026 school year. For grades 9-12, students must…...
New student loan rule could dissuade people from advanced nursing degrees
2+ day, 18+ hour ago By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org Zoe Clarke became a hospital registered nurse two and a half years ago, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother. Clarke, an ICU nurse in Asheville, North Carolina, wants to get her master's…...
UMass Lowell plans hotel, ice rink at Tsongas Center
3+ day, 3+ hour ago LOWELL " Lace up your skates. An indoor ice rink may be coming to Downtown Lowell, and with it a new hotel, part of a renovated and expanded Tsongas Center development plan through UMass Lowell. Chancellor Julie Chen presented the university's…...
Greater Lowell Tech names Students of the Month for September, October
1+ week, 14+ hour ago TYNGSBORO " Congratulations to the following Greater Lowell Technical High School students for being chosen as Students of the Month for September and October 2025. Each of these students has ... Juliette DesRochers, a senior from Lowell, entered Greater Lowell from the Wang…...
Lowell Public Schools security bids opened at City Hall
1+ week, 22+ hour ago LOWELL" " The sealed bids for the building security system contract in Lowell Public Schools were publicly opened Wednesday in the Purchasing Department offices at City Hall. Present at the morning bid opening was Chris Nugent, representing American Alarm and Communications,…...
Project LEARN announces Shamir Rivera-Quintal as interim executive director
1+ week, 1+ day ago LOWELL " Project LEARN has announced the appointment of Shamir Rivera-Quintal as the organization's interim executive director. Rivera-Quintal succeeds LZ Nunn, who will step down at the end of the year to join The Lowell Plan and Lowell Development Financial Corporation…...
Paws-on puzzles: Lowell Humane Society animals test out enrichment toys designed by UML students
1+ week, 2+ day ago LOWELL " A tennis ball or a rope for tug-of-war are always a perfect addition to a dog's lineup of toys, but believe it or not, a lot of pets can benefit from a toy that makes them think or solve…...
Behind the Bylines: Meeting them where they don’t want to be
1+ week, 2+ day ago In the final week of my journalism class, I asked my students a simple question: If given what they now know about how social media platforms are designed, should news live there? Almost all of them said no. When I…...
‘Every single school is working hard to support our children’: 3 Lowell schools named Schools of Recognition by DESE
1+ week, 4+ day ago LOWELL " Three Lowell schools were named as Schools of Recognition by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education this year after they each displayed significant academic improvement after being among the lowest performing schools in the state. "Every single…...
$2M bombshell with Lowell High project
1+ week, 4+ day ago LOWELL " The City Council heard a budgetary bombshell from Skanska Project Manager Jim Dowd, who told the body during its Dec. 2 meeting that the basement floor in the 1892 building would have to be replaced at considerable cost. Dowd is the…...