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BOSTON -- The House Ways and Means budget falls short of the funding level University of Massachusetts officials have sought to stave off tuition and fee increases across its four undergraduate campuses, but state representatives will have two opportunities to push it there next week.

By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON -- Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, whose family founded Stop & Shop as a single grocery store in Boston's North End, will attend a rally with striking workers in Dorchester on Thursday where she

By Jon Winkler
jwinkler@nashobabvalleyvoice.com
Election season will start coming to a close next Monday with three towns holding contested races for seats on municipal boards.

TEWKSBURY -- To celebrate Earth Day, community members will hold a spring cleanup in town on May 4. Safety vests, bags and gloves will be available for participants to pick up at the town common and head to open space areas in town needing care.

LOWELL -- The Sun submitted a request to the Lowell School Committee this week to re-evaluate the release of executive session minutes and documents related to the termination of former Superintendent of Schools Salah Khelfaoui.

LOWELL -- A 21-year-old mother and her baby were hospitalized after being struck by a car in the Centralville neighborhood shortly before 5 p.

LOWELL -- Guy Lefebvre, a fixture around Lowell and an expert in Mill City art and history, died Wednesday at the age of 70.

A Sun Staff Report
LOWELL-- The largest graduating class in UMass Lowell history will receive advice from a newly elected congresswoman and two internationally renowned educators.

DRACUT -- The sounds of Dracut High School's string orchestra filled every corner of the room on a recent Tuesday morning with Robin Mallory at the helm.

By Katie Lannan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON -- The House Ways and Means budget falls short of the funding level University of Massachusetts officials have sought to stave off tuition and fee increases across its four undergraduate