3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (315+ words) LOWELL — After graduating with high honors from Middlesex Community College in May, Monique Chan, of Lowell, started the Massachusetts Senate Summer Fellowship. A paralegal studies student, she serves in state Sen. Vanna Howard’s office with fellow Middlesex alumna Julianne Floro....

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (760+ words) BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Tuesday subjecting proposed data center projects to local approval before developers can move on to state permitting, representing her administration’s latest crackdown on the facilities after halting tax breaks earlier this summer....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (542+ words) TYNGSBORO — Office space at the building at 100 Potash Hill Road remains under active consideration as a public safety building, accommodating both fire and police departments, even as the Fire Station Building Committee has prepared a report on cutting the cost…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (246+ words) Lowell Sun Lots of art abounds when September rolls around and thoughts turn to more serious stuff than beach picnics and summer shenanigans. Buy art and see how it’s made while you talk to the artists who make the art…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (860+ words) The recent upbeat developments on the Devens housing front have helped mask the mounting obstacles to the construction of additional residential units on the former Army base. MassDevelopment announced earlier this month that Elite Home Builders, working with the neighborhood’s…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (192+ words) BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is planning to host a regional summit with other New England governors to explore the role advanced nuclear and fusion energy can play in New England’s energy future, including its potential to increase energy supply and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (640+ words) The University of Massachusetts Lowell has joined FutureTEX, an ambitious 10-year, $480 million Department of Defense aimed at modernizing and revitalizing the United States’ domestic textile manufacturing industry. “Textile manufacturing is deeply woven into the history of Lowell and UMass Lowell,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (334+ words) Lowell is the birthplace of such luminaries as artist James McNeill Whistler, actress Bette Davis and writer Jack Kerouac. But only Kerouac acknowledged it and made Lowell the focal point of several of his writings, which became the backbone of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (128+ words) Dr. Jonathan Moray, a neurologist at Lowell General Hospital was recently asked about ways to recognize Alzheimer’s disease, something that has been identified as a “key health priority” in a recent community health assessment. Here is a question-and-answer session with…...