Peter Currier

7 hours ago | lowellsun.com | Peter Currier

LOWELL - Riverbend and Lowell High School have entered into a partnership to provide substance use programming to students with a focus on both education and substance use prevention.

1 day ago | lowellsun.com | Peter Currier

LOWELL - Amid the Trump administration's attempts to drastically cut government spending, a local nonprofit was informed by the Department of Justice this week it would be losing $2 million in grant funding in the middle of the grants' cycles. UTEC, a Lowell-based nonprofit aimed at community violence prevention and intervention, announced Wednesday the DOJ is cutting nearly $2 million in Community Violence Intervention Grants previously awarded to the organization.

2 days ago | lowellsun.com | Peter Currier

By Peter Currier WILMINGTON - One incumbent and two challengers are on the ballot for two seats on the Select Board in this weekend's town election. Incumbent Kevin Caira and challengers Steve Hunt and Jacob Gearwar are vying for the two seats, one of which is currently occupied by Greg Bendel, who chose not to run for reelection this year. Originally Published:

5 days ago | lowellsun.com | Peter Currier

BILLERICA - In the hours after Paul Revere's famous midnight ride April 18 and 19, 1775, the word rapidly spread throughout the colony that hundreds of British troops were on their way from Boston to Concord with hostile intentions. Among the militias to respond to meet the British in Concord was that of Capt.

1 week ago | lowellsun.com | Peter Currier

LOWELL - On the 50th anniversary of the fall of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, and the start of one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, U.S. Reps. Lori Trahan (MA-3) and Robert Garcia (CA-42) reintroduced legislation to recognize April 17 as Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day. Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975 following a bloody, eight-year conflict which killed hundreds of thousands of people.