Lowell News

Friday night's 24th commencement of Lowell Catholic High School brought cheers of success, tears of happiness, and many memories for 88 graduates.

At precisely 8:30 p.m. Friday, the 314 members of this year's Central Catholic High School senior class, including 68 boys and girls from Greater Lowell, became alumni in the Class of 2013.

Thank you to Marion Brousseau for sending in this picture of her father, Lowell Police Sgt.

From left are Sister Lori Fleming, principal of St. Margaret School; Distinguished Graduate Brian Stafford; Roselyn Scales, development coordinator; and the Rev.

It will be the last day Marrero and her other sixth-grade classmates will be students at the Lowell Community Charter Public School.

The following information was provided by the Tewksbury Police Department: The Memorial Parade will be held on Monday, May 27th, 2013 starting at the Ryan School and ending at Brooks Plaza .

The iconic Pow-Wow Oak, the landmark tree on Lowell's Clark Road near the Tewksbury line that survived physical impediments and man-made controversies, sadly succumbed to the ravages of time earlier this week.

Kittery Point has striped bass to 30 inches and mackerel. Off shore its haddock and all you want.

A recent court ruling that the city cannot force certain property owners to purchase one type of fire-alarm system has prompted a renewed call for the city to find a way to reimburse those owners required to install wireless alarm boxes.

William J. Quinn, vice president of commercial lending at the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank, was recently named a Community Bank Hero by Banker & Tradesman.

The Merrimack Repertory Theatre's board of trustees has ended a six-month search by naming Elizabeth Kegley to join Artistic Director Charles Towers in leading MRT into the future.

A city man acquitted of murder last year is back behind bars held on high bail after being charged by Chelmsford police with kidnapping and armed robbery.

The murder arraignment of a Lawrence man accused of fatally stabbing his 60-year-old stepmother in her Lowell apartment in March has been postponed until later this month.

First of the 2013 season of weekly Tuesday night Motorcycle Night at Sampas Pavilion and Heritage Farm Ice Cream.

A proposed methadone clinic off Stedman Street in Lowell has been attracting opposition from nearby residents and businesses, mainly across the town line in Chelmsford, whose border runs only a street's width from where the facility would go.

When Edson Novinyo was growing up in Ghana, he wore sandals made out of recycled car tires, studied from the same books his father had used and developed an interest in aviation from watching birds fly.

It began with an investigation into a $5,000 ransom demand for a dognapped pitbull puppy stolen from a lottery winner.

Tacking on special commissions and bumping up spending in areas across the nearly $33.9 billion budget proposal, the Senate on Wednesday charged through more than half the 725 amendments before it during its first day of annual budget deliberations.

A convicted Level 3 sex offender with an 18-page record who is facing new rape charges appeared before a judge Tuesday to ask that he be released on a GPS bracelet.

NMTW Community Credit Union will become Align Credit Union in September, the second Lowell-area banking institution in a week to announce a name change.