"They are good numbers and certainly not numbers rumored to be expected," said Eileen Donoghue, Lowell's new city manager, who until April 16 served as a state senator from Lowell.
Donoghue, who is also a former mayor of Lowell, was referring to rumors that the planned addition and renovation of the high school would cost more than $400 million, according to the Lowell Sun.
Worcester Regional Airport, a hard-to-get-to hub with almost no spokes, has only a handful of commercial flight destinations.
JetBlue flies from Worcester to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, and plans to add JFK in New York City later this week, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. (A local airline, Rectrix, flies to Hyannis.)
