Saw this over at the Boston Globe:

By John Vellante  |  January 21, 2007
4 finalists in Lowell

Lowell High is closing in on a new football coach after narrowing the field of candidates to four. The selection committee will trim the list to two by the end of the month and send its recommendations to Lowell headmaster [...]

On this morning’s WCAP Saturday Morning Live, Officer Mike Miles called in to end any speculation and announce that he is running for School Committee here in Dracut.
He is having a fund-raising event this Thursday, January 25 at Lenzi’s Restaurant in Dracut from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
As I get any more information on his campaign, [...]

 

 Mike Miles Calls WCAP to Announce Candidacy [0:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

 

 News of the Weird, January 20, 2007 [3:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This mornings Lowell Sun Column has a couple interesting notes.. I had heard that this was being reviewed and expect that the concept of who’s related to who will become an issue in the upcoming election (especially the school committee race):
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Running for School Committee is incumbent [...]

Well, with a vote of last week’s Board of Selectmen’s meeting, they have taken another step towards the possible election of a charter commission to look at the recommendations of the charter committee.
A couple years ago now, the committee was formed to review the current charter. This committee was formed in fulfillment of campaign pledges [...]

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

 

 News of the Weird, January 13, 2007 [3:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So it all begins again on Sunday evening.
Jack Bauer is back. The hero of the new century.
At the end of last season, he was on a slow boat to China, captured by the Chinese in retaliation for an attack on one of their embassies.
I hear the next season starts out strong, and keeps getting better.
The [...]

… the loss of his pension.
This the the past Speaker of the House who abolished the term limit on holding that office so that he could keep it. At the time I saw this as an ultimate insult to the citizens of our commonwealth (if he believed in it that much, he should have gotten [...]

I like it when they can keep their meetings short. Maybe we should reward them for every meeting they finish in less than an hour!
Of course, I’ld give em a bigger reward if they could find a way to do the same with the Town Meeting.
But then again.. the Selectmen did vote to move forward [...]