In a recent editorial in the Lowell Sun, the Dracut Housing Authority tooks a lickin’ for recent events regarding the process to hire a new Executive Director to replace Joe Tully Jr.
As we all left the meeting of the DHA on monday night, I was waiting for someone to call “Shenanigans”.
This morning’s political column in [...]

 

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In a short discussion on WCAP’s Saturday Morning Live program yesterday, Warren Shaw, Tom Byrne and myself discussed the recent article in the Sun regarding someone asking the state ethics commission to do an investigation of the situation over Mrs Martin being involved in the hiring of a teacher.
On the issue being investigated (see the [...]

 

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Dracut’s own Jim Ogonowski (from right up the road a piece) joined us last week on Dracut Local Access‘ Open Forum to discuss the issues of the campaign.
I’ve uploaded a number of clips from this interview on YouTube (please forgive the new commercials they are adding to clips).
The whole channel can be seen here.
The final [...]

I know.. I got a lot of complaints about the slowness over the last couple months. So I’ve dealth with it.
It seems that the hosting company I’ve been using has been overselling their service (sort of like the airlines).
They’ve added thousands of new customers, but forced everyone to share the resourses. They have tried to [...]

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

 

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In Massachusetts fifth congressional district election, the Lowell Sun has endorsed Dracut’s Jim Ogonowski.
With only two weeks left until the primary election, Ogonowski continues to work the streets, backyard gatherings, civic events, and debates in his effort to win the final election.
In the editorial, the Sun says:
Ogonowski has many traditional conservative views, just what you’d [...]

I asked Jim Gookin what happened…”What happened where?”, he replied.
Last weeks meeting?
“I just thought we’ld be wasting time and energy on the selection and thought we’ld take care of it,ya know. I just wanted everybody included, I thought we should be included. If we had to go through the whole process it could take us [...]

I took the opportunity to ask Jim some questions a while back, and have finally gotten to get the interview up on the blog.
I found Jim most approachable. Far from the typical politician, he’s just a guy from up the street who has decided that its time to find another way to serve his country [...]

Dracut Housing Authority Commissioner Tom Salem called in to the WCAP Saturday Morning Live program to express his concerns regarding the current state of affairs at the Authority.
In a 3 minute segment, he took the opportunity to compare the situation to the hypothetical removal of Town Manager Dennis Piendak by the Board of Selectmen Chair. [...]

 

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