Dracut Forum

I couldn’t let these last two Dracut people get left out, and it gives me one more chance to appeal to readers to donate to the Sun Santa fund.
With these pods, you can catch State Representative Colleen Garry and Lowell Sun reporter Dennis Shaughnessey performing for the Sun Santa program.

 

 Rep Colleen Garry [2:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Dennis Shaughnessey [2:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Future Stars owner joins Northeastern University
Just a quick note I caught about one of our local businessmen making good. (Ok, So I also support Billerica people.. lol)
Dec. 19, 2006 Boston, MA
Mike Glavine ’96 has been named an assistant coach on the Northeastern University baseball team, head coach Neil McPhee announced on Tuesday. Glavine will [...]

A Middlesex grand jury returned indictments against a former Dracut treasurer last week, charging him with stealing more than $60,000 from the town over two years.
by Douglas Belkin, Boston Globe Staff December 21, 2006
A Middlesex grand jury returned indictments against a former Dracut treasurer last week, charging him with stealing more than $60,000 from [...]

By KIRK BOUTSELIS, Sun Correspondent Lowell Sun
DRACUT — Selectmen last night blasted the lack of communication following the detonation of volatile blasting caps at the Dracut Water Supply District last week, and chided district Superintendent Gary McCarthy for “insensitive” remarks aimed at concerned residents.
Selectman John Zimini said he was enraged that he only found out [...]

I guess I don’t harp on this enough, but Dan Morrell at the Lowell Sun had a great article pointing out the issue this week.
Too many times, kids in a tough situation spiral down too quickly to the point where they have no chance to get out of the pit they’ve dug for themselves.
Often, from [...]

Well, we need to take a little more time to work out the kinks.
If you were watching the Board of Selectman’s meeting tonite, you may have noticed that we were getting an excellent picture.
The new High Definition cameras and portable studio did an excellent job delivering the picture. More than excellent. It was the best [...]

 

 Jack Lyons talks Cable Access Corp [4:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

By DAN MORRELL, Sun Correspondent Lowell Sun
LOWELL — Willie slid a piece of paper under the hood of a giant copier in the back of Minuteman Press and hit a series of buttons on the copier’s monitor.
“You just press this, and then you hit this,” he said. A double-sided facsimile came out perfectly on the [...]

By DENNIS SHAUGHNESSEY, Sun Staff Lowell Sun
LOWELL — A truckload of compost from Shaw Farm in Dracut. A guided tour of the Lowell-Tyngsboro-Dracut State Forest with Mehmed Ali, director of the Mogan Cultural Center in Lowell. A round of golf with Sun Editor Jim Campanini and Publisher Mark O’Neil. A weekend at Lowell School Committee [...]

As Warren noted earlier:
Just got a call from our friends doing the accounting.
We did it. Latest number is over 50k
The Salvation Army gave us a target of fifty thousand dollars this year for the WCAP Salvation Army Radiothon. Last year, we reached $38,000 by the end of the day.
2539
This year, we added some new people [...]