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"Ideal weather
conditions drew 20,720 voters to the polls"
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Brian Martin, age 33,
became the youngest mayor in the city's history when he was elected on
the 10th ballot.
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Joseph Tully was city
manager.
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Incumbent Larry Martin
failed to win re-election. Martin, the tenth place finisher in
the previous election, had joined the council three months earlier
when Councilor George Anthes resigned to become an Assistant District
Attorney.
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The two council
"newcomers," Ray Rourke (1977, 1979) and Robert Kennedy
(1971, 1973), had both served previously as city councilors.
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Unsuccessful challenger
Wayne Peters had previously served as Lowell's superintendent of
schools.
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Unsuccessful challenger
Mike Maguire was the son of former mayor and councilor Robert
Maguire. In later years, Mike moved to Dracut and was elected to
that town's school committee.
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On the school committee,
newcomers Kathleen Kelley, John Reid and David Allen joined incumbents
Kathryn Stoklosa, Gerald Durkin and George O'Hare.
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Incumbent school
committee member George Kouloheras was defeated (Kouloheras, who
finished seventh in 1981, had joined the school committee to fill out
the term of the late Clement McDonough).
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Incumbent school
committee members Daniel Kane and William Kirwin did not seek
re-election.
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Newcomer Kathleen
Kelley, who topped the school committee race, was the niece of city
councilor Gus Coutu.