Ed Gertz sends us this picture to remind us all to enjoy the 4th of July this week.

I want to remind everyone that Dracut is celebrating the Holiday Thursday evening with a concert by Brandy at the school complex starting at 7:00 pm and fireworks at 9:00.

The Good Time Emporium in Somerville has had its last weekend.
Known to everyone as “Good Times,” this was one of the best family establishments I knew of where you could take young kids for rides, games and amusements and as they grew up they would continue to go there for the pool, laser tag, indoor [...]

An escaped convict, who walked away from a prisoner transport into a waiting car, was captured yesterday here in Dracut.
From the Eagle Tribune article:

Miguel Angel Caraballo, 37, of Lawrence who is facing 20 years in prison for a violent Haverhill home invasion and kidnapping, was found outside a home in Dracut at about 10:45 p.m. [...]

Everyone is waiting for a ruling today from the Supreme Court (the real one, not this silly Massachusetts SJC) about a case that finally reached them regarding a handgun ban in Washington DC.
Hopefully, this case will settle the age-old question regarding the first clause of the second amendment: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the [...]

Update: For those of you who seem to think that every posting is some sort of attack.. get over it. I noted that Ron Mercier had spoken with DATV, that was not some sort of conspiracy.. he was just letting them know that the meeting would be short and that Mrs Espindle would not be [...]

The Shaw family is flying in from across the country to join in the celebration.
Come down to the farm this Saturday and Sunday, June 28th and 29th, to help transition one of the Greater Lowell area’s oldest Dairy Farms into its second century.
On Saturday morning, 980 WCAP’s Saturday Morning Live program will broadcast live from [...]

As they were made of Brox Industries sand, as reported in the Lowell Sun last week, I took the opportunity to visit Hampton Beach today to get some pictures from the annual Sand Scupture Competition.

Not really a big Dracut story, but it is another example of the kind of events held here in New England [...]

I had seen an earlier blog thread at Left in Lowell regarding WCAP and its first six months and took the opportunity to talk to the owners late this week to ask them how things have gone so far.
Clark Smidt (CS): We’ve put together an awful lot in a hurry, but there’s still some loose [...]

From the Associated Press, we learn:
BOSTON (AP) _ Backers of ballot questions that would end Massachusetts’ income tax, ban greyhound racing and ease marijuana laws say they have enough signatures to make the November ballot.
Supporters of a ballot question to phase out commercial dog racing in Massachusetts said they collected 45,000 signatures, about four times [...]