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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

I understand that Superintendent Spencer Mullin has let word out that he will be freezing his own pay for a year as part of the current budget process.
You heard it here first.
I’m getting word from school committee members as well now that he is doing this.
The Lowell Sun editorial today blasts him on not taking [...]

This morning’s Lowell Sun has an article explaining the cuts being made at the schools.
So far, 10 teacher positions are not being refilled as teachers retire.
62 other positions that were previously laid off were sent notices of being hired back.
Now, I’m not sure if this takes into account the additional $400,000.00 that was lost due [...]

I’ve been away for a couple weeks, but you don’t have to be around Dracut for long to see what is going on. Sommerville with trees.. you can still feel the tendrils of political machinations by just taking a walk in the park.

What I have here are a number of clips from last Saturday’s 980 [...]

 

 Bob Cox summarizing situation [3:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Shaw and Cox discuss Louisberg issue [2:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Brian Bond calls in [8:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Ken Martin chimes in too.. [12:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thats what Dracut Housing Authority Chairman Ken Martin seems to be saying in a Letter to the Editor in the Lowell Sun today.

And others aren’t happy.
Join us Saturday Morning on 980 WCAP when we have Dracut Selectman Bob Cox on to discuss this issue.. from inception to fruition. He’s got some issues to grind and [...]