If you’re going to have a holiday party, why not call it a Party with a Purpose? And make Globe Santa the purpose? This was exactly what a women’s group called the Chestnuts had in mind last Thursday ...

LOWELL — While reflecting on his father’s life, John Kuczek recalled how Edward P. Kuczek, a lifelong resident of Lowell, grew up in what he described as a “little tiny apartment” on Spring Street ...