By Shawn on Feb 26, 2007 in Massachusetts | 1 Comment
From Bob Katzen’s Beacon Hill Roll Call published in the Sommerville Journal (a publication of TownOnline.com) we saw some great summaries of events that happened at the State House in the last few weeks.
(Note to Lowell Sun… why aren’t we doing this as well?)
POST COMMITTEE ROLL CALLS ON WEBSITE (H 3746) House 20-127, rejected a [...]
By Shawn on Feb 25, 2007 in Schools | 0 Comments
Monday’s school committee meeting starts the annual review process for Superintendent Elaine Espindle.
This issue is getting more important as her current contract is ending within another year or two. These evaluations will come into importance as we discuss renegotiation and/or renewal of her contract.
As seen in the article in the Lowell Sun this morning, the [...]
By Shawn on Feb 25, 2007 in Articles, Schools | 1 Comment
By Dennis Shaughnessey, dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com Lowell Sun
DRACUT — Tomorrow night’s School Committee meeting could offer the first glimpse into Superintendent Elaine Espindle’s future in Dracut.
The committee is expected to discuss Espindle’s performance evaluations, which grade her on a scale to 10 in six categories. Espindle has a little more than a year remaining on her contract [...]
By Shawn on Feb 25, 2007 in Municipal | 0 Comments
A recent article in the Lowell Sun by Dennis Shaughnessey asks the question, Should the Library be the place for MySpace?
Selectman John Zimini took the opportunity during the last Board of Selectman’s meeting to call for this and other social networking sites to be filtered out at the library.
The librarian in town, Susan Schwartz, seems [...]

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By Shawn on Feb 25, 2007 in Religion | 0 Comments
Cardinal O’Malley appoints new pastor in Haverhill, The Pilot  By Father Robert M. O’Grady
Posted: 2/23/2007
BRIGHTON — Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley has announced the appointment of Father Robert W. Murray from parochial vicar at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston to pastor of St. James [...]
By Shawn on Feb 24, 2007 in Articles, Municipal | 1 Comment
By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — It’s school vacation and a group of teens are huddled over the computers in the M.G. Parker Library, their fingers clicking furiously over the keyboards.
Research for an upcoming term paper? Maybe later. First they have to check their MySpace messages. Teens routinely use MySpace site to communicate with friends, [...]