By Shawn on Aug 31, 2008 in Recreation | 0 Comments
See the attached flyer ..
Dracut recreation is holding the signups for Volleyball for childen in grades 5 and higher.
The program is held at the Brookside Gym, about twice a week for eight weeks from the end of September through November.
The program costs $45.00 (payable to Dracut Recreation, 11 Spring Park Ave, Dracut)
“learn the basics of [...]
By Shawn on Aug 29, 2008 in Schools | 0 Comments
The ad-hoc committee that was formed to discuss a feasibility study regarding the renovation or replacement of Dracut High School will be meeting next week.
The Lowell Sun article regarding this topic mentions that Superintendent Spenser Mullin met with the School Business Authority recently:
School Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin said the meeting will be informational in nature. [...]
By Shawn on Aug 29, 2008 in Articles, Schools | 0 Comments
By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — Officials will gather next week in an effort to breathe new life into a feasibility study for a new high school.
In November 2007, Dracut learned that it is one of 83 districts in the commonwealth that was in line for state School Building Authority reimbursement money. The caveat, however, [...]
By Shawn on Aug 29, 2008 in Dracut, Featured | 1 Comment
I’m not sure who to chastise more.. the Lowell Sun, or the anonymous fool who didn’t have the guts to come forward himself.
To get the facts out first, a Letter to the Editor appeared in the Valley Dispatch, the Sun’s free weekly paper inserted in the Lowell Sun on Fridays.
This letter was an attack on [...]
By Shawn on Aug 26, 2008 in Schools | 0 Comments
SA: I’ll comment on this later, thought it was relevant, so I will post the whole thing for now. We are already hearing the rumblings of these same threats here in Dracut.
Eagle Tribune
The accreditation shuffle is underway again in North Andover.
The former educators and school administrators who constitute the New England Association of Schools and [...]
By Shawn on Aug 26, 2008 in Featured, Schools | 0 Comments
In the Lowell Sun Political column this week, School Committee members Matt Sheehan and MIke Miles point out their reasoning once again on bringing to the town meeting an article limiting the hiring of former school committee members by the school district:
Sheehan and Miles realized that they had the choice to either bring the issue [...]
By Shawn on Aug 26, 2008 in Articles, Schools | 0 Comments
Dracut School Committee members Matt Sheehan and Mike Miles will present an article at the November Town Meeting, asking residents to approve a policy that former board members can’t be hired by the School Department until they have been out of office for five years.
The committee defeated the original measure on a 3-to-2 vote in [...]
By Shawn on Aug 20, 2008 in Articles, Local Businesses | 0 Comments
By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — License suspensions were handed down to three local businesses accused of selling beer to a minor on May 23.
Selectmen last week imposed 15-day suspensions to Merrimack Liquors at 197 Merrimack Ave., Alexander’s Pharmacy at 505 Nashua Road and Dracut Center Convenience at 1388 Bridge St. Only three of the [...]
By Shawn on Aug 19, 2008 in Schools | 0 Comments
Reversing the change that an earlier committee had made that took the responsibility of selecting a candidate from the Superintendent, the school committee last night voted unanimously to give the new Superintendent the role of choosing who he would recommend for the position.
The Lowell Sun reports:
The School Committee unanimously voted last night to relinquish control [...]