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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

Board of Health Director Tom Bomil, now a new member of the Salvation Army Board of Directors as well, led an effort to have employees from the Town Hall volunteer as bellringers for the Salvation Army.
Throughout this last Saturday, if you stopped by the Market Basket on Bridge Street, you would have seen Tom, Town [...]

After a very slow start, and some serious trepidation on our part, the 980 WCAP Radiothon to raise money for the Lowell Area Salvation Army came through once again surpassing its goal of $60,000.00
The tally as of the end of the program was a little over $63,000.00, and it is believed that ultimately we will [...]

by Dan Phelps

Dracut Forum Note: see the list of items up for auction at http://www.980wcapradiothon.com.
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In this morning’s Lowell Sun, Dennis Shaughnessey reports that Dracut Housing Commissioner Jim Gookin has resigned from the Housing Authority.
Appointed to the authority first by Gov. Bill Cellucci, and later by Gov. Mitt Romney, his term was to expire in 2010.
Gookin was at the center of the controversy over the summer involving the hiring of [...]

“Remember no man is a failure who has friends., Thanks for the wings!, Love, Clarence”
Its a strange quote to use as a posting title, but brings to mind some incredible works going on in the Greater Lowell Area.
As you notice, the Frank Capra movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” has once again bubbled to the top [...]