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Government · Veteran's Commission

Veterans Commission Votes to Honor Student Rescuers

Lowell Veterans Commission honors student rescuers, plans fall events. The commission unanimously approved recognition of a Lowell High School ROTC student and Lowell Police Cadet for saving an autistic child from drowning at the September 9 meeting held at City Hall. Chairman Paul Paradise and

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Government · City Council

Council votes 7-4 on officer's pension report

Lowell councilors split 7-4 over a retirement board report opposing a disabled officer's pension bid. Former Sergeant Vincent Fernandez told the council a suspect "ran me over" in 2016, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury and PTSD; he has sought a "hero's retirement" for eight years.

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