![LOWELL — The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and a leading pediatrician from Children’s Hospital cited concerns about mental health and the achievement gap as they told Rep. Lori Trahan that in-person education is generally preferable to remote learning despite the pandemic, as long as community-level data continues to show that it can be […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/low-l-BackToSchool-1.jpg?w=140 "LOWELL — The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and a leading pediatrician from Children’s Hospital cited concerns about mental health and the achievement gap as they told Rep. Lori Trahan that in-person education is generally preferable to remote learning despite the pandemic, as long as community-level data continues to show that it can be […]")
Pediatrician: Opening schools best option, if data-driven
LOWELL — The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and a leading pediatrician from Children’s Hospital cited concerns about mental health and the achievement gap as they told Rep. Lori...
![DRACUT — Two people were injured and a driver was cited as a result of a head-on crash on Mammoth Road near the Dracut Senior Center on Sunday night, according to Acting Police Chief Stephen Chaput. Chaput said emergency crews were called to the area of 971 Mammoth Road about 8:30 p.m., and arrived on […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/LOW-L-DracutCrash-4-1.jpg?w=117 "DRACUT — Two people were injured and a driver was cited as a result of a head-on crash on Mammoth Road near the Dracut Senior Center on Sunday night, according to Acting Police Chief Stephen Chaput. Chaput said emergency crews were called to the area of 971 Mammoth Road about 8:30 p.m., and arrived on […]")
![LOWELL – U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan told seven of her fellow Bay State congressmen that her office has been contacted over 5,000 times by 3rd District constituents with concerns about the U.S. Postal Service, including veterans and senior citizens who get their prescriptions through the mail and fear any delays in service. But, Trahan said, […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/low-l-Postal1-1.jpg?w=101 "LOWELL – U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan told seven of her fellow Bay State congressmen that her office has been contacted over 5,000 times by 3rd District constituents with concerns about the U.S. Postal Service, including veterans and senior citizens who get their prescriptions through the mail and fear any delays in service. But, Trahan said, […]")
![LOWELL — U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who is in a tighter than expected race against incumbent U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, got even more specific, and perhaps a little more sharp-tongued than in previous Sun interviews, when pressed on what sets him apart from a respected incumbent who agrees with him on many of the […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/low-l-kennedy2-1.jpg?w=131 "LOWELL — U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, who is in a tighter than expected race against incumbent U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, got even more specific, and perhaps a little more sharp-tongued than in previous Sun interviews, when pressed on what sets him apart from a respected incumbent who agrees with him on many of the […]")
![LOWELL — A program aimed at helping first generation college students at UMass Lowell — where roughly 41 percent of students are exactly that — was singled out as a national leader by anorganization that seeks to support such programs. The university’s River Hawk Scholars Academy was named a “First-gen Forward Advisory Institution” by the […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/low-l-firstGeneration-1.jpg?w=140 "LOWELL — A program aimed at helping first generation college students at UMass Lowell — where roughly 41 percent of students are exactly that — was singled out as a national leader by anorganization that seeks to support such programs. The university’s River Hawk Scholars Academy was named a “First-gen Forward Advisory Institution” by the […]")
![LOWELL — U.S. Sen. Ed Markey called for payments of $2,000 per month to American families, for billions in aid to state and local governments, and for infrastructure spending similar to that of the New Deal as he told The Sun and Sentinel and Enterprise that bold action is needed to stave off economic catastrophe […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/low-l-Markey3-1.jpg?w=134 "LOWELL — U.S. Sen. Ed Markey called for payments of $2,000 per month to American families, for billions in aid to state and local governments, and for infrastructure spending similar to that of the New Deal as he told The Sun and Sentinel and Enterprise that bold action is needed to stave off economic catastrophe […]")
![LOWELL — Less than two weeks after Rep.Lori Trahan declared “racism is a public health crisis” even though the Lowell City Council does not agree, Trahan on Monday announced that the Lowell Community Health Center will get a $665,000 federal grant to help reduce racial disparities in healthcare in Lowell. The grant, from the U.S. […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/LOW-L-lchcCovidTesting114-1.jpg?w=125 "LOWELL — Less than two weeks after Rep.Lori Trahan declared “racism is a public health crisis” even though the Lowell City Council does not agree, Trahan on Monday announced that the Lowell Community Health Center will get a $665,000 federal grant to help reduce racial disparities in healthcare in Lowell. The grant, from the U.S. […]")
![U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said Massachusetts had not adequately prepared for emergencies at two soldiers homes where dozens of aging veterans died as a result of COVID-19. “I think there will be a reckoning,” Wilkie said regarding failures at such facilities, as he called for a conversation about how to better care for […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/low-l-wilkie3-1.jpg?w=132 "U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie said Massachusetts had not adequately prepared for emergencies at two soldiers homes where dozens of aging veterans died as a result of COVID-19. “I think there will be a reckoning,” Wilkie said regarding failures at such facilities, as he called for a conversation about how to better care for […]")
![LOWELL – Black women in America are twice likely to die as a result of complications from childbirth than women of any other race, and that disparity remains despite income, geographic location, or any other factor, Rep. Lauren Underwood said recently while discussing racial disparities in the healthcare system with Rep. Lori Trahan. Underwood, who […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/low-l-TrahanConvo-1.jpg?w=140 "LOWELL – Black women in America are twice likely to die as a result of complications from childbirth than women of any other race, and that disparity remains despite income, geographic location, or any other factor, Rep. Lauren Underwood said recently while discussing racial disparities in the healthcare system with Rep. Lori Trahan. Underwood, who […]")
![LOWELL – Over a year and more than $380,000 later, Rep. Lori Trahan has been cleared of campaign finance allegations by the House Committee on Ethics. The Committee ended more than a year of questions surrounding Trahan’s campaign finances during the contentious 2018 primary that she narrowly won over Dan Koh of Andover. At issue […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SEN-L-QinetiQ_082719_03-1.jpg?w=132 "LOWELL – Over a year and more than $380,000 later, Rep. Lori Trahan has been cleared of campaign finance allegations by the House Committee on Ethics. The Committee ended more than a year of questions surrounding Trahan’s campaign finances during the contentious 2018 primary that she narrowly won over Dan Koh of Andover. At issue […]")