The people from Dining in Dracut sent me an updated list of participants and some of their planned dishes for the Monday Evening event at Lenzi’s from 6:30 to 8:30 pm:

Athenian Corner: Spinach pie
Avenue Pub : Beef& Barley soup, Stuffed mushroom caps
Blue Angus: Baby back ribs, 3-cheese encrusted chicken& soup
Boston Chowda: Butternutsquash/Cranberry Bisque & Clam chowda
Brown & Budnick Meats : [...]

Word has it that Pat Murphy, the coach of our champion Dracut High School Football Team, has been hired by St Anselem College in Manchester.
Dracut Athletic Director Tim Woods has been invited on WCAP’s Saturday Morning Live tomorrow to speak to this. During the 7:30 segment, he will be appearing, along with Coach Pat [...]

I spoke to Lowell’s State Representative Kevin Murphy tonite at the School Committee meeting regarding his vote a couple weeks ago on house bill 2840/4534 that would exclude some seniors from having to pay proposition 2-1/2 overrides voted for in their community.
Citizen’s for Limited Taxation put out another alert today.
Rep Murphy noted that this bill [...]

Last Saturday was another busy day, with 60 families coming in to shop in spite of the storm the night before.   Once again, their carts were overflowing as they left, thanks to recent food drives by the high school, junior high, Greenmont PTO, the Dracut Library, Scout troops, Christ Church United, Little Angels and several other businesses and organizations too [...]

When Mike Miles was running for school committee last year, one of the things that drew many to his support was his promise to forgo accepting the stipend provided to school committee members and his plan to put that money towards kids in our community.
Because of his experience with “at-risk” and youth who tend not [...]

 

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We’ve all seen the signs around town promoting an event called “Dining in Dracut”. I’ve always wondered what this event was, so when I got a request through the contact form to promote the event here on the forum, I took the opportunity to ask.
Barbara Varnum, from Community Outreach-Circle of Friends, responded quickly with some [...]

We all agree that the high school is currently pretty crowded. Its beyond capacity, even with our having added a number of portable classrooms to ease the burden.
Luckily, it looks like the long term trend shows an easing at the high school.
At first glance, the enrollment trend for the high school looks like its steadily [...]

As we saw at the open forum to discuss the need for a new school, Selectman Jim O’Loughlin seems to be in support of moving forward towards a new school.
“We have to take a good look as to why we shouldn’t do this. We’re going to need a new high school at some point and [...]

It seems all the current candidates for selectmen have now had their startup fundraising parties. I missed John Zimini’s cuz of weather, and I saw that Ted Kosiavelon had one the other day.. but didn’t know when it was being held (I just saw the signs at the Legion as I drove by).
Selectman Bob Cox, [...]