Fox 25 is asking its viewers which game to broadcast.. join the rest of our town in voting for Dracut at
http://media.myfoxboston.com/sports/hsfriday.html.
Dracut is winning so far, but Burlington/Reading is catching up quickly.
Keep those votes coming.
Update: We lost the vote, the other game will be broadcast.

Not as many “regular” people got a chance to see the impact that Mr Newman had on the most needy of our society. If you weren’t a celebrity, or had a connection with one of these children, you would have little idea what he did.
A few years ago I had the opportunity to visit the [...]

Political Column, The Lowell Sun
THANKS A lot, Dracut.
Lowell Assistant City Solicitor Maria Sheehy would likely be preparing her exit from City Hall today if Dracut’s delegates to a Democratic caucus Wednesday night had sided with the rest of the Greater Lowell delegation and not gone off on their own.
Sheehy finished third in her bid to [...]

The Freshman Football game Vs. Lowell High, Scheduled for Friday 9/26 has been postponed with a new date to be determined..
The Dracut High Varsity Football Football game Vs. Lowell High, scheduled for Saturday, 9/27 has been postponed until Sunday, 9/28 at Dracut High starting at 2:00 pm

Last week on 980 WCAP we had Mike Miles, a drug and alcohol counselor, in to discuss the drug GHB that the state had recently warned Massachusetts Department of Families and Children Foster parents about.
This week, we got another notice about a type of crystal methamphetamine that is going around:

This is a new drug known [...]

The food pantry is in operation this Saturday, see the Food Pantry Article for answers to common questions. They remain in need of many common items, so as your shopping please pick up some extras and drop them off at the Central Fire Station, Town Hall or the Library drop off boxes.
A note from Debbie [...]

Yet.
Sorry, I have to say it.
Its true that at this point nobody is asking for a proposition 2-1/2 override. All everyone wants is to find the money to pay for a feasibility study. That’s about $450,000.00. A little more than half of that will be paid back by by the state over the next year [...]

 

 N Andover Carla Scuzzarelli on Feasibility [2:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

He repeated it a number of times. “These results are incredible,” Superintendent Mullin said as he reported to the Dracut School Committee the current Grade 10 MCAS results.
Out of 338 students taking the English portion of the test, only 7 failed (“And we’re working with them,” he continued.)
And on the Math test, much more difficult [...]

Using what he had on hand, Superintendent Spencer Mullin tells us, was all he needed to fix a problem with attendance at the schools.
He reported to the school committee that originally the district had over 50 unexcused absences a day. Kids who just didn’t show up and had nobody call in to report their absence.
Now, [...]