I’m stealing this article outright, and reminding everyone that they can get involved in the local Salvation Army effort by contacting me through the contact form above, or calling Major Everett Henry at 978-458-3396.
The radiothon, meals, outreach work, bell ringers.. there are lots of ways to help out. — Shawn
By Jack Minch, jminch@lowellsun.com
LOWELL — This [...]

The Ombudsman for the the Washington Post, Deborah Howell, wrote a devastating article admitting the perceived and actual bias that the newspaper had shown throughout the presidential campaign.
Showing statistics of number of stories on each candidate, placements of stories, number of pictures of candidates, and even specifically mentioning their deep coverage of Sarah Palin while [...]

For those who might be missing it, Dracut’s own George Papoulias (previsously of DATV, and now 980 WCAP) has started up a monthly column regarding Dracut in Tom Duggan’s Valley Patriot.
Farm Town Lowdown takes a look at recent, developing and upcoming Dracut news, events and issues. A copy of this month’s article is [...]

 

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I’ve been regularly reading Brian Flaherty’s DracutMusings blog since he started five or six months ago. What started out as a small family and personal blog, quickly evolved into one where he was making interesting statements on state and federal political issues.
He is now starting a new blog that will focus directly on Dracut politics.. [...]

The annual Salvation Army of Lowell Christmas Castle breakfast was held yesterday at the Doubletree Hotel in Lowell. It was a very well attended event.
I spoke with a number of the leaders in this group, who all indicated the great increase in those who are in need this year.
Dracut’s own Kevin Willett told me that [...]

The Englesby Intermediate School PTO Cordially Invites You To Attend the Following “Adult Only” Presentation:
“School District Lock Down Procedures -
What Parents Need to Know!”
Date: November 19th, 2008
Place: EIS School Cafeteria
Time: 7:00 pm
Presentation by Dracut Police Department with Question & Answer session to follow.
All Dracut Public School Parent Teacher Organizations are invited to attend.
The EIS [...]

Unofficial figures, but they won’t get much better.
We had a turnout of 14884 voters (out of 20161), which is the highest rate I’ve ever seen.
In the presidential race, in Dracut John McCain and Sarah Palin won out with 7284 votes to Obama and Biden’s 7216 (its interesting to see that Nader’s 138 would have brought [...]

I understand that the Town Meeting fairly quickly and quietly passed the Feasibillity Study article, as was expected. See the Lowell Sun article here. (I had to be away last night at a wake).
As soon as the schools agreed that they could take over the costs of the modular classrooms from the town, it was [...]

Dracut High School’s Football Coach, Jeff Moore, was recognized this week as the Patriots All Access “Coach of the Week”:

 

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