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This is a list, probably not all-encompassing, of issues that occurred in Dracut across 2007.
Did I miss any? Do you have a differing point of view? Feel free to comment below 
Selling Liquor to Minors
The year started with all the hubub regarding liquor stores selling to minors, and the ABCC’s lack of support for the local [...]

Letter to the Editor, The Lowell Sun
As a fairly new resident to Dracut I was stunned by what I witnessed at Town Meeting recently. A proposal was put forward to purchase 14 acres of land from a Lowell developer for use as a sports field complex. The money was to come from the Community Preservation [...]

By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — The thing about singing is you never forget how to do it.
So says Dracut resident Leon Grande, who is gathering a group of singers to form the first-ever Dracut Community Chorus.
Grande, who heads the Dracut High School Music Department, has thought about the concept for several years.
“It was one [...]

Just a note to encourage everyone to check out a couple websites that I ran into recently regarding underage drinking and how to deal with it.
Check out Anheuser Busch’s Positive Parenting site at: http://www.myspace.com/positiveparenting
Also, the Federal Trade Commission has put up a good Don’t Serve Teens site at http://www.dontserveteens.gov

 

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Despite your assertions otherwise, my reason for stepping down from the Dracut Housing Authority because I could no longer devote the necessary time that the position deserved has not been “questioned” by any resident of Dracut known to me. Sub-Head:
As The Sun acknowledges, I am retired. I am also a disabled veteran. Yet, for many [...]

In a letter to the editor this morning, former Dracut Housing Authority Commissioner Jim Gookin responded to a recent editorial by the Sun.
The Sun’s editorial was actually a little less severe than I had expected. Here, and on the local radio show, I have been fairly critical of the whole process over at the Dracut [...]

Former Dracut Housing Authority Commissioner James Gookin served eight years on that board but truly made his mark in the last six months of his tenure.
Gookin surprised many by unexpectedly resigning earlier this month, saying merely that he can no longer devote the necessary time or attention to the position. He didn’t offer any further [...]

By Victor Epstein
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Missy Baker recalls the moment when she realized that her football-playing son, Boone, didn’t just have the flu.
“He told me he was paralyzed,” Baker said. “I said, `What do you mean? I just saw you walk to the bathroom two hours ago.’ And he said, `Mom, I can’t move [...]

In reading a recent article regarding the use of this new “turf” surface that many of the towns around us already have, I noticed an article in Bloomberg.net regarding a huge increase in the number of dangerous bacterial infections (some terminal) regarding this product:
Sixteen-year-old Boone, a wide receiver for Texas’s Austin High School, was suffering [...]