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In today's newsletter:

  • How much more will Lowell households pay for trash and recycling?
  • How a $2 billion deal could reshape Lowell’s JAM neighborhood
  • Why three Lowell brothers are challenging a top court’s bail decision

Also on today's calendar: Community Yard Sale & Fundraiser – Vendors, Raffle & More and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: A stray t-storm; not as warm, with a high of 69 and low of 47 degrees.
  • Saturday: Cloudy and cooler, temps: high: 55, low: 46.
  • Sunday: Cloudy with showers, with a high of 58 and low of 34 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. City Of Lowell Implements Fee Hikes For Waste And Recycling Rates (iheart.com) — Lowell residents will see higher solid waste and recycling fees on their July quarterly bills after the City Council unanimously approved citywide rate hikes to close a funding gap. Homeowning seniors can get a discount, but renters can’t, and the change comes as officials also consider raising property taxes, adding pressure to already tight household budgets.
   

2. Frontrunner Status Delivers $2-Billion for Lowell (insidelowell.com) — Lowell is poised for a massive boost as a Toronto-based company signs a memorandum of understanding to invest up to $2 billion in redeveloping the Jackson/Appleton/Middlesex area and other city projects. City leaders say the Frontrunner City designation helped secure this partnership, which, alongside UMass Lowell’s LINC project, could reshape the local economy and neighborhood landscape over the coming years.
   

3. Phan brothers urge full SJC to undo bail reversal that kept them jailed ahead of retrial (bostonherald.com) — Three Lowell brothers awaiting retrial in a 2020 shooting death outside a Lowell apartment are asking the full state Supreme Judicial Court to restore bail that a single justice revoked. Their attorneys argue new questions about a key State Police investigator and the strength of the evidence should weigh in favor of release after more than five years in custody.
   

4. Man arrested on firearm, drug charges in Waltham (newportdispatch.com) — A 23-year-old Lowell resident faces multiple firearm and marijuana distribution charges after Waltham police say they linked him to a duffel bag containing a handgun with a defaced serial number and 14 pounds of packaged marijuana in a storage unit. Investigators obtained a warrant, searched the unit, and report that the suspect later admitted owning the gun and drugs before being arrested.
   

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  • There is an emergency vehicle on I-93 N reported...
    There is an emergency vehicle on I-93 N reported at 2:30 AM. "Emergency Vehicle Use Caution" (Nextdoor )
  • There is a minor accident on I-90 W • Mass Pike...
    There is a minor accident on I-90 W • Mass Pike reported at 5:07 AM. "I-90 WB Exit 125.6 Travel Lane(s) Affected: 1 of 3 Lane(s) Affected… (Nextdoor )

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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