Prior to tonight’s light-agenda City Council meeting, there isn’t a single Council motion, the Finance Sub-Committee will meet at 5:30 p.m . to discuss how to adjust the FY 2010 budget.
According to a Jen Myers’ article in yesterday’s Sun, the gap is about $264,000. But the key to [...]
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — How did Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin make his decision to hire the new principal for Englesby Intermediate School?
School Committee member Mike McNamara wants to know, after he said complaints surfaced from screening committee members who felt their voices weren’t heard.
“People put [...]
Just in case you did not see it, today’s edition of the Boston Sunday Globe features a story on Lowell. The article, “ Flurry of projects broadening Lowell’s cultural vista” written by Globe Correspondent Karen Sackowtiz focuses on recent activities that contribute to the city’s overall economic, social and [...]
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We all read in the Sun last week (and earlier on Brian’s Dracut Politics blog) about another housing proposal.
This project would involve some property off of Bridge street on the Richardson property.
This project, like the one before it, would either be contingent on state funding [...]
DRACUT — In the wake of a failed affordable-housing plan for seniors, some town officials are quietly lining up support behind a new proposal.
About a month after the Dracut Housing Authority called off plans to buy the 38 units at 1476 Mammoth Road known as Louisburg Square [...]
DRACUT — Well, that was fast.
Weeks after DATV executive director Steve Russo announced he was leaving his post, the local cable-access station that broadcasts town meetings has hired his replacement.
Dracut native Gary Meuse has been hired to head the station, according to Jack Lyons, chairman of DATV’s [...]
By Erin Smith, Lowell Sun
DRACUT — If you didn’t know Rebecca Duda teaches eighth-grade history, you would have assumed she was a rock star.
“Duda! Duda! Duda!” chanted her students after Duda received the Milken Educator Award in a surprise ceremony at Lakeview Junior High School Wednesday.
The [...]
According to a Christopher Scott story in today’s Sun, “City Councilor Jim Milinazzo has the five votes needed to become mayor on Jan. 4, and then some.”
Scott reports that CC Milinazzo has the supports of CCs K. Broderick, B. Martin and CC-elects F. Descoteaux, J. Mendonca and P. Murphy. [...]
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 [...]
DRACUT — The man in charge of DATV, the town’s cable-access station that broadcasts local meetings and residents’ homegrown studio shows, recently announced he’s leaving his job in Dracut at the end of the month.
Here’s the problem: When [...]
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DRACUT — Embattled Dracut High Vice Principal Hank Golec is officially retiring in January.
Golec recently submitted his papers to retire as of Jan. 21 and Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin has [...]
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DRACUT — The chairman of the Board of Selectmen is questioning why police union officials waited more than a month to accuse Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand of being intoxicated when he responded to a [...]
Its hard to get away from this story, but what seems like a continuing rivalry between Dracut’s Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand and the Union Executive Jerry Flynn has a history that’s hard to forget. Headlining today’s Lowell Sun political gossip column was the Chartrand story.
The article [...]
Union’s potshot at deputy not its first
No Love is lost between Jerry Flynn, executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Association, and Dracut Deputy Police Chief David Chartrand, who Flynn accused last week of being under the influence of alcohol when he was off duty and showed up at [...]
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Former Democratic State Representative Philip Travis of Seekonk has endorsed Steven Howitt who is running for the seat which encompasses Norton, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Swansea. The endorsement was reported by the Sun Chronicle.
Former state Rep. Philip Travis has crossed party lines to endorse Republican Steve Howitt for [...]
DRACUT – In a new report, a patrolman says he came close to shooting off-duty Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand after both responded to a late-September domestic incident.
Officer Derek Scribner responded to a 911 call for a possible hostage situation involving a man [...]
Today’s Hamilton Canal groundbreaking event was really well-run, and very well attended. I saw media folks from NECN, Ted Panos of WCAP, the Sun was there (I stood next to Matt Murphy, where I could get the good photo shots) and LTC was there taping it (I’m sure they will [...]
When the leaves are still on the trees in New England October, when the light has changed with the seasons, and the sun is slanted low in the sky, it can be quite dark on the ground. But when the leaves fall, all of a sudden it seems as if [...]
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By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — Police Chief Kevin Richardson said yesterday he has opened a preliminary inquiry into whether his off-duty deputy chief had been drinking when he showed up to a 911 domestic call for a man with a shotgun and wound up almost getting shot by his own [...]
School-board member accused of handpicking Golec replacement
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — School Committee members are accusing one of their own of quietly and illegally handpicking a replacement for embattled Dracut High School Vice Principal Hank Golec, who is facing allegations of breaching the school’s security system and misusing surveillance equipment.
Last [...]
State group: Dracut’s school chief one of many retiring
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com DRACUT — School officials only have about six months to come up with a plan for next year’s school budget, and on Wednesday, Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin announced he plans to retire [...]This morning’s Lowell Sun headline: “Charges fly in Dracut.” Seems a little over the top.
Bonnie Elie put forth a motion on a proposal to add a new permanent position to the high school administration.
She didn’t do it in secret, after having had behind the scenes meetings [...]
The Lowell Sun Editorial today gives a “thumbs down” to Dracut for not being more forthcoming with information on the Hank Golec affair.
Dracut residents have a lot of questions regarding the lengthy absence of Dracut High School vice principal Hank Golec. They deserve some answers.
Golec has been [...]
