Lowell Source — Lowell, Massachusetts's independent local news publication

Lowell Source covers the Mill City and the towns around it: the City Council, the City Manager and the Mayor, City Hall's departments and budget, the School Committee and Lowell Public Schools from Lowell High to the charters, UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College, the Lowell Police and Fire departments, the businesses opening downtown, in the Hamilton Canal District, on Merrimack and Middlesex streets, in the Acre, Centralville, the Highlands and Pawtucketville, Lowell General Hospital and the clinics, the National Park, the canals, the Merrimack River and the parks families use every weekend, the Folk Festival, the Water Festival and the Summer Music Series, the River Hawks and the high school teams, and the decisions made on Beacon Hill that land on the people who live here. We report what the city decides, what is being built, what it costs and who is affected, for Lowell, Chelmsford, Dracut, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Billerica and Westford.

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