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Tomorrow evening the Lowell Spinners celebrate the Dracut Middies Superbowl victory.
Presented by Pepsi, the Spinners website announces a “Dracut Football Mini-Bobble Head Giveaway”
that includes a mini-bobble to honor the Super Bowl Champion Dracut High School Middies.
Join everyone from Dracut tomorrow at the Lowell Spinners game to once again celebrate our youth.

After their editorial last Tuesday excoriating Mullin for taking a raise while calling for everyone else to take a wage freeze, the Sun has now printed an article and now today an editorial for his changing his mind and skipping the raise.
I don’t know.. the Chairman of the School Committee was notified on the previous [...]

Although he didn’t come to his decision as quickly as some city and town officials, we commend Dracut Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin for deciding not to accept a 2 percent pay raise this year.
Initially Mullin had planned to take the raise, despite the fiscal constraints of the community and school department, but after [...]

As I predicted earlier, all this political infighting will drive the property owner of the Mammoth Road project away.. and will probably discourage others from having anything to do with Dracut in the future.
From the Lowell Sun Political Column this morning:
The squabbling, however, has had an impact on Jerry Lussier, the owner of the building [...]

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On this morning’s Saturday Morning Live program, School Committee Candidate Mike Miles announced that he will be running for re-election next spring.
He has already started planning his campaign.. upcoming fundraisers, as well as another fundraiser for his scholarship program.

The Lowell Sun
Dracut Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin is scheduled to receive a salary increase of $2,600. It isn’t the dollar amount that we find particularly troubling, it is the message being sent at a time when the town, like most Massachusetts communities, is struggling to maintain positions and services.
Mullin argues that he [...]

Letter to the Editor: The Lowell Sun
Seniors: Do you need an affordable, safe housing unit? Well, get back in line.
Or at least that seems to potentially be the message being sent by the majority of the five Housing Authority Board members, the board elected by the voters to protect your interests. Since 1988 there [...]

We’ve been watching.. but it goes on.
The facts are out there. The Sun reports this morning on the disagreements over at the Dracut Housing Authority meeting last evening.
Brian at the Dracut Politics blog does a great job of describing the mood of the venue.. and continues a good job of feeling out the politics of [...]