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TYNGSBORO -- How would you describe your mom? Less than a week before Mother's Day, Renee Sword challenged her second-graders with an acrostic poem.

By Jon Winkler
jwinkler@nashobavalleyvoice.com
LOWELL -- Cedric Edwards didn't stand accused for his crimes of assault and battery and home invasion.

CHELMSFORD -- A 45-year-old man was flown by medical helicopter to a Boston-area trauma center after a pickup truck rolled over him at a Billerica Road home Friday.

LOWELL -- Repairing the roof of City Hall.
Rehabilitating the Lower Locks.
Installing lighting at local athletic fields.

BOSTON -- Unions and non-profits will be limited to contributing $1,000 a year to a candidate for pubic office starting next month after the Office of Campaign and Political Finance followed through Thursday by submitting a new rule that will close the controversial "union loophole" in state regulation.

LOWELL -- A Lawrence resident who allegedly drove head-on into a Tewksbury police cruiser earlier this week was arraigned on several motor vehicle charges.

BOSTON -- Opponents of a planned natural gas compressor station in Weymouth are seeking more information about the departure of former Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton, arguing his move to the private sector doesn't "pass the 'smell test.'"

TYNGSBORO -- Town Administrator Matt Hanson on Tuesday night briefed residents on the Annual Town Meeting warrant, two weeks before they will gather to vote on May 21.

LOWELL -- Repairing the roof of City Hall.
Rehabilitating the Lower Locks.
Installing lighting at local athletic fields.

LOWELL -- Lowell Democrats will caucus to elect delegates to the Democratic State Convention Sept. 14 convention in Springfield.