Dracut Forum

By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — Ending months of speculation, School Committee member Mary Gail Martin announced Monday she will resign due to her family’s plans to move to Tyngsboro.
Asking for the floor at the end of Monday night’s School Committee meeting, Martin did not specify when her final day on the board will be. [...]

The Dracut School Committee signed a contract last night with another union.. again with another raise (this while Wilmington just cancelled a negotiated contract deal and went back to the table knowing that major cuts are on their way). Nancy Gagnon was once again the only member voting against the raise.
The “Administrators” union was [...]

School Committee member Mary Gail Martin has resigned from the School Committee due to her family’s plans to move to Tyngsboro.
This was a good move on her part, in that now it will be possible to elect a new member of the committee rather than go through the pain of having the elected members of [...]

Dracut Briefs, The Lowell Sun
Donate gloves and mittens
DRACUT– The Moses Greeley Parker Library in Dracut is sponsoring a Glove and Mitten Drive to benefit the families at the Dracut Food Pantry. New gloves, mittens, hats and scarves will be distributed to clients of all ages, from babies to seniors, at the pantry’s opening Saturday. [...]

Several members of the Open Space Committee and at least one member from the Community Preservation Committee intend to visit what is believed to be the most inaccessible area in Dracut. When we’ve been successful in the past our trek has taken place in coordination with a long deep freeze. We [...]

Lately, I’ve been extremely impressed with the efforts of Tewksbury School Committee member Rich O’Niell. His efforts in trying to make real change in a school system could pour over to other communities and the state.
The Lowell Sun Column recently noted the start of their recently formed School Budget Advisory Committee:
The Tewksbury School Department’s brand-new [...]

By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, amayer-hohdahl@lowellsun.com
Updated: 01/12/2009 06:39:16 AM EST
Every year since 1935, they have been bitter rivals on the football field come Thanksgiving Day.
Now, some local officials are wondering whether the Tewksbury Redmen and Wilmington Wildcats should join forces in a quest to save money.
As it watches its revenues shrink, Tewksbury has repeatedly reached across town [...]

By Ed Burns, Sun Correspondent
Updated: 01/15/2009 06:45:27 AM EST
TEWKSBURY — School officials, tired of competing with Shawsheen Valley Technical High School over funds, announced a plan last night that could bring the regional school under the same restrictions the town’s budget operates under.
Tewksbury School Committee member Richard O’Neil described the plan, which would seek to amend [...]

I loved Dennis Shaughnessey’s column this week. It hit the nail right on the head, finishing with:
We live in two worlds. I live in the world where if you take a bribe and are caught doing so on camera, you go to jail, directly to jail. Do not pass Go and do not collect your [...]