Pawtucketville

Hey, you know...

What would it take Hey, Batch and Michaela, the Pawtucketville fire station is going to be browned out today.

Here's a

question.

My name is Brady McCarron.

I'm a Lowell resident of downtown Lowell, grew up between the Highlands and Pawtucketville, and a proud 2012 graduate of Greater Lowell Technical High School.

This election is personal.

Greater Lowell Tech laid the foundation for my banking and mortgage career and helped shape my commitment to serving this community.

So February 2nd, especially you live in that district.

You live in Pawtucketville.

So we now, originally the field was Ray Booten and Rodney Elliott.

We were waiting other people.

But, listen...

Special election.

You, as somebody who lives in Pawtucketville, so you've been without a city councilor now for two and some change weeks, and you're going to be without one for four months.

Wait

Where to begin on last night's city council meeting? Let's actually start with the election date.

Will Rosenberry, the city of Lowell elections director, sat in here last Tuesday and said it would be his preference to hold the special election to replace Dan Roark as the District 1 Pawtucketville city councilor.

on december 15th he said you got to do it between december 15th or february 2nd his preference was december 15th um his second choice would have been february 2nd as he kind of disclosed but he outlined the reasons why december 15 was so important and then nine city councilors basically said screw you We're going to do something else.

And then they started this back and forth.

They vote, the council ultimately, after looking at a couple of dates, maybe in January or late December, they ultimately decided on February 2nd.

Which, again, off the top of my head, I thought that was going to be the date because I thought you'd want to go 120 days.

Is this bad for Pawtucketville, though, District 1? They will now go four months without a representative on the Lowell City Council.

The mayor

Not that we haven't done this before.

But it is a little bit of a break from our regular format because today we are featuring a debate between the two candidates vying to represent the 16th Middlesex District, which is comprised of two neighborhoods in Lowell, Pawtucketville and Centerville.

and two neighborhoods in Chelmsford, North Chelmsford and the Westlands.

And we're excited today to welcome into the studio the two candidates vying to represent that district on Beacon Hill.

Those were the two candidates.

running for state representative in the 16th Middlesex District.

As we told you, that comprises parts of Lowell, the Pawtucketville and Centerville neighborhoods, and parts of Chelmsford, the North Chelmsford and the Westlands neighborhoods.

Now, it's your opportunity to vote.