Going around the blogosphere is a reaction to a Boston Globe article slamming the Lowell Sun.
The Sun has been getting into doing these special pullouts, like this morning’s about Police Chief Ed Davis.
It seems that the paper gets the subject of the pullout to buy into selling the ad space, and in Meehan’s case then [...]

Saturday, December 2, 2006
Spaghetti Supper sponsored by the Greater Lowell Circle of Friends 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Dracut Senior High School Cafeteria.
Tree lighting Ceremony featuring Dracut High School Band and Choral Group, the Greenmont Avenue School Chorus, & SANTA CLAUS beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Gazebo on Lakeview Avenue.

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The Pop Warner Cheerleaders are headed back to Disney World!All 3 teams will compete at the National Competitions at the Wide World of Sports Pavillion in Disney December 6-8.
A fundraising Spaghetti Supper is being held for tomorrow, Friday Dec 1st, at the American Legion Hall on Broadway from 6 to 8 PM.
$5.00 for adults, $3.00 [...]

Been busy for the last week… Had to get a few things done.
Thanksgiving was good, had visits from many of the prior kids, family, friends and went out to visit relatives of one of the current kids.
Holidays are a busy time when your in the business of foster care. Its an emotional roller coaster for [...]

News of the Wierd with Tim Bomil.
From WCAP, AM 980 in Lowell, MA Saturday Morning Live program

 

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I don’t know what else you can say. We were the headline article in high school sports across the state yesterday.
The Boston Globe highlighted our team in the article Dracut Dumps St John’s Prep.
Then, in the Boston Herald, DeLorenzo writes Dracut pulls off shocker: Russo, Huntress too much for Prep.
And in our own Lowell Sun, [...]

I don’t know if this program is still around (I tend to work in the mornings, so don’t catch the morning programs).
But I did find that the UMass Lowell Sunrise Radio program has been podcasting some of their segments on thier website.
I noticed this one by Dennis Shaughnessey on the perils of teaching a kid [...]

First Light 5767 on Sunday, Dec. 17
ANDOVER — The Merrimack Valley Jewish Federation, in cooperation with its synagogues and Jewish organizations of the Merrimack Valley, will present First Light 5767 with Peter & Bethany Yarrow in concert at Temple Emanuel, 7 Haggetts Pond Road, on Sunday, Dec. 17. The celebration begins at 7 p.m. with [...]

Well, it eventually had to be done.
They gave it their all, but without the portables (that had to be removed back in September due to mold issues) the school was just too small for the number of kids it was trying to accommodate.
Ultimately, they had to move a group of kids to another school. [...]