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For AAPI Heritage Month, NECN features a Cambodian community who escaped Pol Pot’s geocide in the 1970s and 80s and made their way to Lowell, Massachusetts.

Since being sworn into office in January, it has been a whirlwind for Vanna Howard, who is the Bay State’s first female Cambodian-American State Representative. It’s a role she could not have imagined as a young child in Cambodia when she was fleeing the Khmer Rouge.

There are eight community gardens scattered throughout Lowell neighborhoods, 13 at schools and a waitlist to get your own plot.

Mill City Grows was created 10 years ago after a citywide food assessment found one of the biggest gaps for people was being able to access fresh produce. One of their programs is a mobile market that sets up in neighborhoods where supermarkets are hard to find.

While Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline have a huge number of restaurants well worth going to, another city that is a must-visit for food is a short drive to the north. Indeed, Lowell is one of the most underrated places for dining out in the region, in part because of its incredible diversity of choices, including everything from Southeast Asian…

In this week’s 10 in Your Town, Lowell, Massachusetts is home to the first soft drink, Moxie, and the place where CVS was originally founded in 1963.

Located along the Merrimack River, Lowell is a great place for outdoor, socially distanced activities. Here are 10 things to do in Lowell:  Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest Looking to get outside?  Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest is over 1000 acres spread across three towns with opportunities to hike, bike and horseback ride. There are also ponds, swamps and wetlands for boating and fishing…

Mill girls craft the fabric of Lowell as the center of the textile revolution.

A woman who’d been set fire by her husband in their Lowell, Massachusetts, home died after about three weeks in the hospital with serious burns, prosecutors said Wednesday. Celeste Marte-Lebron, 49, had been in critical injuries before she died of her injuries on April 20, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said. Prosecutors were waiting to release the cause of…

The body of a Massachusetts woman reported missing earlier this year was found this week in the Merrimack River. Authorities had been searching for 56-year-old Kimberly Kelly-Oberhauser of Lowell since she disappeared Jan. 18. A body was found along the shoreline near Ravens Bluff in Andover on Tuesday. The Essex County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday that the body was…

Firefighters removed a man’s body from a canal in Lowell, Massachusetts, Wednesday after it was spotted by a passerby, authorities said. The body in the Northern Canal near 145 Pawtucket Avenue was reported about 1 p.m., according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office. They said the body appeared to have been in the water for a long period...

Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, are looking for a missing teenager. Sixteen-year-old Lenilda Melo was last seen Wednesday in the area of Willard Street, police said Thursday. Melo is described as being about 5’5 with brown eyes and brown hair with red highlights. Police did not say what she was wearing when she was last seen. Anyone with information is asked…

The body of a dog believed to belong to Sinead Lyon, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was found in the same New Hampshire lake, Ossipee Lake, that her body was, officials said Saturday.

A man has died after crashing his pickup truck into a brick wall in Lowell, Massachusetts, Monday morning, authorities said. The Dodge Ram truck was traveling on Gorham Street near the Lowell Connector when it hit the wall. The man, who was 42 years old, was the only person in the vehicle, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office….

A man is being held without bail after allegedly dousing his wife with gasoline and setting her on fire in their home in Lowell, Massachusetts, leaving her in critical condition. Crews responded to a multi-family home on Varnum Avenue around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday after someone called 911 to report seeing flames inside the house. A woman in the home was…

Santos Lebron de Los Santo hid behind a wall on Friday as prosecutors described the chilling allegations in court.

Prosecutors with the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office say De Los Santo has previously punched his wife and burned her with an iron.

One person was taken to the hospital after a fire broke out at a multi-family home in Lowell, Massachusetts Wednesday night. The Lowell Fire Department was called to 845 Varnum Avenue for a fire around 10:30 p.m. One victim was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries, according to officials. No further information was immediately available.

The body of Sinead Lyons, a 41-year-old woman from Lowell, Massachusetts, was found Friday in a New Hampshire lake. New Hampshire Fish and Game officials found her about 2 p.m. while searching Ossipee Lake in Ossipee, according to New Hampshire State Police. Her body was identified the state medical examiner. Lyons was last seen on about March 11 walking a…