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 [...]

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 [...]

To celebrate the Dracut High School football program, the high school administration has been planning a “night to remember” (as Sup Mullin called it) for the football players and everyone involved in this winning season.
The plan is a dinner for 600, held at the “cafetorium” at one of the schools. About 150 students will go [...]

At last nights Board of Selectmen meeting, I was surprised to see Selectman Zimini seem to suddenly get upset and start a bit of a tirade that nothing had been done yet to prepare for cuts that will probably come from the Governor.
He was upset that a meeting had not been set with the Selectmen, [...]

As our great Governor finally starts getting his wish to push through new taxes, the first will of course be an increase in the gas tax.
I still don’t believe they will eliminate the tolls on the Mass Pike as well. For most of us up in the North we really don’t care, except for moral [...]

You will notice that I have not jumped on the “angry taxpayer” bandwagon with regard to the legislative pay raises.
I have some issues, but mostly don’t see it as that big an issue as some others.
First of all, the base pay of legislators is about $55,000.00. For this state, thats a little more than the [...]