It was a beautiful day for a parade (a little hazy from the Quebec smoke, but nobody really noticed).
Rather than list everyone who was there, I’ll let you look and see them for yourself..

At Veteran’s Park this afternoon, Matt Sheehan made his formal announcement of his candidacy for State Representative in the fall election.
Beacon Hill is Broken. It’s time for someone to stand up and say enough is enough.
The state unemployment rate is 9% and the District unemployment rate is almonst 10%. All the Tax increases have not [...]

Thursday Evening at 6:30 p.m., Matt Sheehan will be announcing his official candidacy for State Representative for the Towns of Dracut and Tyngsboro to the State  Legislature.
He will be having his announcement at Veterans’ Park, off of Broadway. All are invited.
Update: This morning’s Sun tells us that Bob Cox has withdrawn from the race, as [...]

I stopped by the Dracut Junior High School Science Fair this evening to catch some of the projects and chat with friends.
I learned quite a bit..  rock candy doesn’t grow well in Dracut water, but does in bottled water. Hey Gary, any idea what your doing to the water that stops crystallization?
CFC and LED lights [...]

Hello Dracut Forum,
As a new edition to Dracut Forum, every other week (or as often as possible) I will write about what is going in the Dracut School Community.
As we all know this Monday night we have our School Committee meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. at Harmony Hall.
On the agenda for this week we [...]

I helped out with videotaping the monthly meeting of the Dracut Housing Authority. There really wasn’t much to report. The properties are weathering the storm pretty well. There is some work underway to upgrade some of the units and the community centers.
I then stopped over to the Finance Committee meeting being held at the [...]

I’ve got a few clips here for those who have trouble getting up in the morning. I understand that many may have been out attending the funeral of Mr Garry as well.
So, for your entertainment..
We have the host, Warren Shaw, discussing the sudden departure of Spencer Mullin from his position as Superintendent.
Next, we called School [...]

 

 Warren Shaw discusses Mullin early departure [3:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Matt Sheehan discusses unfortunate departure [10:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Jim O'Loughlin talks off duty alchohol policy and Louisburg [17:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

During a discussion with School Committee Chair Matt Sheehan on 980 WCAP, we discussed a number of items concerning the school district.
First, he was asked about the hiring process used for the new Principal. He said that he heard after a previous school committee meeting that there had been some members of the screening committee [...]

 

 Matt Sheehan discusses school issues [14:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Erin Smith is going full bore.
Dracut has been all over the paper lately, not only with the “summary” story listing every issue from the last six months that appeared in yesterday’s paper, but today we get to learn the results of two issues (one from that list, and another that we all had heard about [...]