Dracut Forum

The Town Clerk has posted the Nov 3 Town Meeting Warrant on the town website.
I notice a couple returns from the spring town meeting, a request to add or increase the fee to tax demands (probably ok, but I hate to add new fees and taxes), the school feasibility study item is there…
But what is [...]

In the Lowell Sun Political column this week, School Committee members Matt Sheehan and MIke Miles point out their reasoning once again on bringing to the town meeting an article limiting the hiring of former school committee members by the school district:
Sheehan and Miles realized that they had the choice to either bring the issue [...]

I know we just had a long School Committee meeting tonite, and I will get back to that.

There was some great discussion on the new alternative education for at-risk youth, as well as some improved Special Education programs.
I did stop by just to quickly ask Matt Sheehan about the proposal he has put in for [...]

By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — May Paquette can do it. Dennis “D.J.” Deeb can do it. Joe Campbell, Karen Frederick and Donna Brody can also do it if they wanted to.
However, current members of the School Committee, as well as all future members, will have to wait five years after leaving office before applying [...]

I don’t think so, but speculation is rampant. That was the highlight of the Lowell Sun political column today.
When Matt Sheehan was running for office, it was clear that people were concerned with previous School Committee members getting jobs within the district.
It was a strong enough item to make it a campaign issue.
When he made [...]

A Sun Staff Report, Lowell Sun
IT MAY be May: May Paquette, that is.
A week after unseating Dennis “D.J.” Deeb by 27 votes, new Dracut School Committee member Matthew Sheehan made a motion that former board members can’t be hired by the School Department until they have been out of office for five years.
It didn’t take [...]