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State Senator Ed Kennedy attended Mayor Sokhary Chau’s Reception for the Lowell Delegation to Kalamata, Greece on Tuesday, November 15 at Lowell City Hall. The seven-member delegation traveled to Kalamata in September to formalize the Sister City Agreement between Lowell and Kalamata. A delegation from Kalamata had visited Lowell earlier in the year. In addition to Senator Kennedy, the seven-member delegation consisted of Lowell Mayor Sokhary Chau, Former Lowell Mayor Bill Samaras, Middlesex Community College Dean Judith Hogan, UMass-Lowell Associate Vice-Chancelor Arlene Parquette, Federation of Hellenic-American Societies of New England President Bill Kafkas and Federation board member, Dimitrios Mattheos.
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