Dracut Football Wins Against Acton-Boxborough and Moves on to the 2008 Super Bowl

By Ken | December 3, 2008

In the second half of Tuesday’s MIAA Eastern Mass. Division 1A semifinal, the Acton-Boxborough football team’s offense matched Dracut score-for-score.

The Middies punched the ball into the end zone one more time than the Colonials did in the first half, however, and prevailed, 28-21 at Cawley Stadium.

“We moved the ball well,” said A-B coach Bill Maver. “We didn’t tackle well, but a lot of that was what they did. You have to give them credit.”

The Dual County League Large School champion, A-B finished the season at 10-2. It was the Colonials’ first postseason appearance since 2004.

Dracut (10-2) will play Marshfield in the Division 1A Super Bowl Saturday at Gillette Stadium.

The game started off well for the Colonials, who took the opening kickoff and ate up 5 minutes and 29 seconds before claiming the early lead on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Alex Kastrinellis to Robbie Ruggiero. Read the rest of this entry »

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Shaw Farm wins New England Green Pastures Award

By Ken | September 11, 2008

The New England Green Pastures award celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Award winners for 2008:

• The Shaw Farm, Dracut, Mass., founded in 1908, is owned by Warren Shaw. Warren’s son, Mark, plans to keep the dairy going. Warren’s daughters, Sarah, Lyndie, and Laurie, play key roles in the operation. Sarah’s husband, Robert Pratt, is involved in ice cream manufacture and the milk plant.

The winners will be honored at Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass., in September.
The program is sponsored by the New England Green Pastures Committee and Cooperative Extension at each of the New England land grant universities.

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2008 Dracut Old Home Day

By Ken | August 28, 2008

The 2008Dracut Old Home Day, taking place on Saturday September 6th, is forecasted to yield the biggest turnout yet. That is saying something considering that the 2007 Dracut Old Home Day estimated over 13,000 visitors in attendance.

Taking place along with the 2008 Firefighters Activity Day, the 8th annual Dracut Old Home Day will provide entertainment for every member of the family. There will be musical entertainment, raffles, displayed military vehicles, a wood carving demo, beekeeper/honey demo, and even a replica of the USS Constitution.

Making her Dracut Old Home Day debut is Body Art by Erin. Erin is a face painter in Massachusetts and will be offering face painting, body painting and temporary glitter tattoos at reasonable prices.

Children will go crazy for her inventive face painting designs while teens and adults will have fun with her extensive selection of glitter tattoo designs.

Not familiar with Glitter tattoos? Stop by Body Art by Erin’s website and check out her informational Glitter Tattoo page. You’ll get the lowdown on these beautiful temporary tattoos that last from 3-7 days.

Definitely stop by the 2008 Dracut Old Home Day/Firefighters Activity Day. You’ll be glad you did.

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SHAW FARM IS 100!!!

By Tim | July 14, 2008

CREAM OF CROP AT SHAW’S 1OOTH FEST

BY ANGEL ROY, VALLEY DISPATCH STAFF

 

 

This youngster tries her hand at milking one of the Shaw Farm “cows” at the two-day celebration of the farm’s 100th anniversary. (Courtesy Photo/Sue Manning)

DRACUT — The year 1908 was destined for new beginnings. Kicking off with the first-ever ball drop on New Year’s Eve, it has become an annual tradition.

Driving the bend of New Boston Road, you can still see the remnants of the new beginning that the Shaw family created for themselves in 1908, a place that also now holds the title of centurlong tradition.

“100 Years of Freshness,” boasts the wooden sign along the road 100 yards in front of the unmistakable silo that reads “Shaw Farm.”

“It’s very validating to be here today. I have heard about this place all of my life, and it brings forward a point of celebration that is really wonderful for our family,” said Lorna Zurilgen of Fresno, Calif. Zurilgen’s grandfather, Mark Loran Shaw, was the founder of the family-run farm that has been passed from generation to generation. Her cousin, Warren Shaw Jr., is the farm’s current operator.

Zurilgen had a chocolate shake for lunch at the family’s restaurant on June 27, just a day before the two-day100th anniversary celebration held for family, friends and customers on the Shaw Farm grounds.

“They all asked if that was all I was going to have, and I said ‘I’m going to have what they are famous for,’” Zurilgen said.

In the eyes of Sue Manning, Shaw Farm is famous for so much more.

“I love the people at this farm,” said Manning, a Dracut resident, as her 4-year-old daughter Paulina gazed at a pair of brown and white twin calves. “Great people, great milk, great egg nog.”

Manning has been a loyal Shaw customer for 33 years.

“Its an old-fashioned kind of store. It’s like coming home every day,” Manning said.

She and her family sported silk-screened yellow T-shirts reading “100th Anniversary Shaw Farm” on the front with a cow donning a cone-shaped party hat. “Lets party till the cows come home,” read the back.

“The products have never changed throughout the years,” Manning added.

Bright yellow sunflowers sprouted from the glass Shaw Farm milk and egg-nog bottles that were used as centerpieces for each of the tables at the breakfast held for longtime customers.

Golden anniversary patrons Rich and Kathy Russell of Dracut were pleased to be part of it.

“It’s meaningful to be part of a community that is so supportive,” Kathy Russell said of the event’s turnout. The Russells frequent the farm’s ice-cream shop to satisfy their orange-sherbet and maple-walnut ice-cream cravings.

Also known for standing in line under the shop’s green wooden roof to pick up some sugar-free strawberry ice cream for himself and his wife is Lowell Mayor Edward “Bud” Caulfield. Caulfield also stopped by the farm on Christmas Day before its noon closing time to pick up some last-minute egg nog.

“We are here to thank Warren (Shaw) not only for the 100 years of the farm, but for what he does for people,” Caulfield said, adding that Shaw has helped to raise money for the Lowell Salvation Army and has donated his ice cream to local teams and organizations. “It’s a testament to Warren and his family to have all of these people here today. Look how many lives they touched.”

“To see the farm still going and to see my nephew making improvements … it will be around for many more years,” said Winthrop Shaw, 86, son of Mark Loran Shaw.

In high school, Winthrop Shaw would spend his afternoons working at the farm pasteurizing, building walls for the silos and clearing land. Last weekend, he took a golf cart up the hill to the cemetery to visit his brother Warren’s grave.

“It means a lot for me to be here today,” Winthrop Shaw said.

“For us to be able to come back here for this event,” said Winthrop’s daughter, Barbara Shaw Harrison of Los Gatos, Calif., “… my dad has a grin from ear to ear.”

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Dracut man charged in brutal beating

By Tim | July 14, 2008

Dracut man charged in brutal beating

By Jack Minch and Dennis Shaughnessey

 

 

DRACUT — Police arrested a 19-year-old Dracut man last night in connection with the short, vicious beating of a 22-year-old man outside the Dunkin’ Donuts shop in the Collinsville section late Thursday.

As Michael Peasley lay in critical condition at Boston Medical Center last night, Andrew Shockley, 19, of 31 Hillside Road, was facing charges of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon — his shod foot. Shockley was arrested at home on a warrant. He faces arraignment Monday in Lowell District Court.

“The victim was punched in the face repeatedly and then thrown to the ground and kicked at least once,” Deputy Police Chief David Chartrand said. “The suspect got into a vehicle and left. We have not been able to determine what started the argument.”

Peasley’s most serious injuries are to his head, but Chartrand stopped short of saying he was kicked in the head.

Detectives focused on Shockley after their investigation yielded several previously undisclosed important pieces of information, which they brought to Lowell District Court and obtained a warrant yesterday.

Traffic at the intersection of Mammoth and Lakeview roads, where the shot is located, was steady last evening. Business at the doughnut shop was brisk.

Nobody answered the door at Peasley’s nearby home last night and mail was still in the mailbox.

The School Department’s Central School Office is across the street and the Collinsville Bible Church nearby. There are retail stores such as Tedeschi and Palace Pizza on the far corner.

“It’s horrible, it’s not usual for Dracut” said John Grugan, of Dracut. “For Lowell or Boston it’s par for the course but it’s very unusual for Dracut.

Jessica Clapper was working at the restaurant and planned to take a break to have a cigarette outside with Peasley. He had used a restroom and gone outside to wait, she said.

Clapper said she was behind the counter during the attack but did not see what happened. She heard a bang on a window but Peasley’s attacker was gone by the time she was able to run around the counter to the parking lot.

“The whole incident was fairly quick as far as the entire altercation,” Chartrand said.

Peasley was grunting and trying to stand up but could not, Clapper said. So she let him lean against her while waiting for paramedics.

“He stopped breathing and (paramedics) had to ventilate him,” she said.

Mike McKay, of Dracut, said he knows Peasley but had not heard of the fight before last evening.

McKay, 18, said he used to hang out around the restaurant when he was younger and was surprised to hear of the fight.

“I’ve never seen a fight here,” he said. “I hung out here five years in a row and never once saw a fight here.”

Tom Payne lives next door to the Peasleys.

“I’d describe him as a nice guy,” Payne said. “He’s offered to help me with certain things.”

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Dracut High Mock Crash

By Tim | May 23, 2008

DHS FATAL CRASH DISPLAY IMPARTS CHILLING MESSAGE

BY DENNIS SHAUGHNESSEY, VALLEY DISPATCH STAFF

 

 

A Dracut firefighter checks the pulse of Ally Malonis during this dramatization of a fatal crash held at dracut High School. VALLEY DISPATCH/DENNIS SHAUGHNESSEY

DRACUT — “What the Hell just happened?” said someone inside one of the two cars that have just been involved in a head-on collision.

Dracut High School seniors Ashley Tello and Kosta Gregory crawl out of the wreckage, their faces covered with blood. Their anguished shrieks pierce the air, as they see their friend, who has been thrown from the vehicle, motionless on the side of the road, blood flowing from a gaping head wound.

“Ally! Oh, my God! Ally!” Tello screams.

It’s only a dramatization, put on as a somber warning amid prom and graduation season by the school system in conjunction with the Police and Fire departments, but this “Make a Date (Driver Awareness Through Education) With Life” program’s mock accident seemed too real for comfort.

Police sirens can be heard in the distance as passengers in the other vehicles groan incoherently. Tello and Gregory are joined by classmate Elyse Turgeon, who pulled herself out of one of the wrecks. “No. No. No. Ally!”

Students, all seniors from the Class of 2008, watch the scene from a grassy knoll behind the high school. Their eyes are riveted to the scene. They bite their bottom lips. They clutch each other and sob openly. A grisly scene like this isn’t hard to imagine. They watch the news. They read the papers. Many of them know somebody who has been involved in a serious accident.

Police arrive on the scene, followed by firefighters and paramedics. Hydraulic tools are used to cut away the metal that has wrapped itself around one of the drivers and several passengers. A firefighter checks the pulse of the girl on the ground. He walks away silently, as police officers cover the body of Ally Malonis with a sheet.

Officer Barry Cregg pulls empty beer bottles and a quart of hard liquor from one of the cars. In this dramatization, Matt Monbleau, one of the most popular seniors in the class, is taken into custody on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol. He is expected to face a vehicular homicide charge.

And just when the students watching from the lawn think they’ll get an emotional breather, Lorrie Malonis comes running onto the scene, trying to break through a cadre of officers to get to her daughter. Grief stricken and wailing, she is restrained by Cregg and the Rev. Larry Zimmerman, the fire chaplain.

Crash victims are placed in ambulances and taken away, but for 17-year-old Ally Malonis, there is a hearse. Whether by design or happenstance, the Dracut Funeral Home hearse parks within feet of the spectators on the lawn. She’s placed in a body bag and then into the back of the hearse, while her mother, in hysterics, tries to climb in. The hearse drives away quietly.

Students, somber-faced, file back into the school for an assembly of the senior class.

If the mock crash hasn’t yet driven home the alcohol-awareness message to the students, what comes next just might. They are met by a coffin just inside the door of the auditorium. A half-length mirror in the coffin bears the cryptic message, “This Could Be You.”

For Dodi Hughes, the program was all too real. Hughes is the mother of Betsie Hughes, a senior at North Middlesex Regional High School who was killed in 1999, along with her boyfriend Sean Wellington, in a horrific crash caused by 31-year-old drunken driver Irving Chapman.

“I know that some of you here will not listen to what I have to say,” said Hughes, whose voice was so whisper-thin that the audience sometimes had to strain to hear her. “When I hugged my daughter goodbye that day, how could I know it would be the last time I would see her alive?”

Chapman is serving a 28-to-30-year sentence in prison for the fatal crash. He had been drinking most of the day when he got behind the wheel and collided with Hughes and Wellington. During her impact statement in court, Dodi Hughes told Chapman that she forgave him.

“I told him that I knew he didn’t mean to kill Betsie and Sean. He made the wrong choice to drink and drive,” she said. “After he was convicted people kept talking about closure. There is no closure. Closure means an end. There is no end. There is a conscious void in our lives 24 hours a day. Betsie and Sean are still dead. They always will be.”

Hughes said she hoped the dramatization and anything she had to say would stay with the students long after the day was done. She told the students that they will find themselves in circumstances where someone has had too much to drink and wants to get behind the wheel.

“If it takes 10 of you, stop that person. Get their keys,” she said.

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Ogonowski short on votes again..

By Tim | May 23, 2008

GOP’s Ogonowski could be short on voter signatures

OGONOWSKI  

 

By: Frank Phillips Globe Staff / May 20, 2008

Republican Jim Ogonowski, who has the backing of key party members in his bid to challenge US Senator John F. Kerry, could be in danger of stumbling on his first crucial test: collecting 10,000 voter signatures to secure a spot on the GOP primary ballot.

With all the signatures submitted by the campaigns and the exhaustive certification process winding down, Ogonowski still needs at least 259 certified signatures to qualify for the September primary. But even that estimate is low, because he is expected to need a cushion of up to 1,000 more to withstand challenges to the validity of individual signatures that are sure to be mounted by his rival in the GOP primary, Jeff Beatty.

“There appears to be some question as to whether he will make it,” said Secretary of State William F. Galvin, a Democrat whose Election Division compiles signature tallies submitted by individual city and town clerks.

Candidates had until May 6 to submit signatures to municipal clerks. Local officials then have until May 27 to certify each signature as valid and submit a total from their communities to Galvin’s office.

Though five working days remain, most certifications and submissions have been completed, Galvin said. His office could not provide the exact number of cities and towns that had reported yesterday.

Ogonowski, a 28-year Air Force veteran from Dracut who lost a special election last year against US Representative Niki Tsongas, Democrat of Lowell, has about 9,750. Ogonowski is the only federal candidate in Massachusetts still seeking to get the needed certified signatures to qualify for the 2008 ballot.

Beatty - a Harwich security specialist and Army veteran who failed in a bid to unseat US Representative William D. Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat, in 2006 - has more than 17,000 certified signatures.

“Most candidates traditionally achieve a minimum number at this late point in the certification process and are building a surplus,” Galvin said. He said that traditionally, election specialists advise candidates to obtain a minimum 10 percent above the required number of certified signatures to insure against a challenge from opponents.

Ogonowski’s campaign strongly rejected any notion that his nomination papers would fall short and his candidacy would be short-circuited. The campaign said it handed over 22,000 signatures to local officials; it could not be learned yesterday why there was such a discrepancy between that total and the much smaller numbers trickling into the state.

“We are not worried about it,” said Alicia Preston. “We submitted well over the amount required.”

Preston said three key communities - Dracut, Chelmsford, and Boston - had still not reported their numbers. Dracut and Chelmsford are home turf for Ogonowski.

But Galvin’s Elections Division and Boston officials said yesterday that results from all three of those communities have been submitted. Preston said later that her information was dated and that other communities she didn’t identify had yet to finish certifying Ogonowski’s papers.

Galvin’s questions about the viability of Ogonowski’s signature drive coincided this week with a boost to Ogonowski from former governor Mitt Romney, who is hosting a $1,000-per-person fund-raiser tonight at the Taj Boston hotel on Arlington Street.

Romney is one of a number of leading Republicans backing Ogonowski who include former governor Paul Cellucci, former lieutenant governor and former GOP state chairwoman Kerry Healey, and US Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, US Senator John Ensign of Nevada, has donated to Ogonowski’s campaign.

Earlier this month, Ogonowski launched a television ad that skewers Kerry as being absent from Massachusetts.

An attorney representing Beatty’s campaign has already notified the state’s election office that it will challenge Ogonowski’s candidacy based on irregularities in the nomination papers. When contacted yesterday, a spokesman for Beatty’s campaign said the staff would “cross that bridge when we come to it.”

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Dracut Memorial Day Festivities

By Tim | May 23, 2008

Dracut: American Legion will visit Dracut cemeteries Monday, May 26, 7 a.m. Parade to follow at 11 a.m., from Greenmont Avenue School, to Dracut High School for ceremony. Lunch to follow at American Legion, Broadway Road.

 

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Rope Pics

By Tim | May 21, 2008
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True Rope

By Tim | May 21, 2008

GAY?

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Robbery at Brother’s Pizza Gets Schools Lock Down

By Ken | May 9, 2008

The high school and middle school were locked down about 9 a.m. Friday when the owner of nearby Brother’s Pizza, 1734 Lakeview Ave., was robbed and two suspects fled into some nearby woods.

The suspects, with coats over their faces, approached the shop owner as he was unlocking the front door and grabbed his briefcase, which contained an undisclosed amount of cash.

Police are looking for two white men in their late teens. One man was wearing dark clothing and other was wearing light clothing.

No weapons were shown.

Update:

Pelham teen was one of three people charged as a result of an armed robbery of the owner of a Dracut pizza parlor after beating him repeatedly with a wooden stick, police said.

As police waited to execute a search warrant on the home of one of the suspects, the juvenile accomplice and an accessory to the crime happened upon the property and were arrested on the spot.

Jeremy Hogan, 17, of 1 Land Road in Pelham turned himself in to both Dracut and Pelham police on Monday, May 12, after a search of his home after the incident on Friday, May 9, turned up the burnt remnants of a briefcase stolen from the owner of Brother’s Pizza on Lakeview Ave.

Also arrested during the investigation’s course were Justin Hayes, 19, of Hudson, who was charged with accessory after the fact and an unnamed 16-year-old from Dracut, an accomplice in the robbery.

Alicia Beauregard, 18, of Pelham was also arrested while Pelham police searched Hogan’s home, but was not charged in connection with the robbery. She was charged with with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and felony possession of Vicodin.

Dracut and Pelham police collaborated on the case to make the arrests, with Dracut dealing with the crime scene and Pelham obtaining and executing the search warrant for Hogan’s home, which turned up not only the remnants of the briefcase but also about 400 prescription painkillers and a half-pound of marijuana.

The $6,000 that was inside the briefcase when it was taken had not been recovered as of Monday, May 19, according to Pelham police Lt. Gary Fisher.

Just before 9:30 a.m. on Friday, May 9, Dracut police responded to Brother’s Pizza on the armed robbery call. The owner had heard a knock on the back door, and thinking it was a delivery person, opened it to two masked men who entered and proceeded to assault him with a wooden stick, then took the briefcase with them.

Dracut schools in the area were put on lockdown for a short period of time, according to a statement from Dracut police Deputy Chief David Chartrand, until it was determined that the robbers had fled the scene.

The owner told police at the time that he believed he knew one of the masked men to be Hogan, who had worked at Brother’s Pizza for a few weeks and had recently stopped showing up for work, Fisher said.

After obtaining a search warrant through Salem District Court Judge John Korbey, Pelham police searched Hogan’s home. Hogan was not present at the time, Fisher said.

As Fisher waited for the warrant to be approved, he sat in an unmarked police car at the bottom of the driveway close to the home, a car containing Hayes, Beauregard and the Dracut juvenile pulled into the driveway.

“Once they were up that driveway, they were committed,” Fisher said. Pelham police charged Hayes with possession of a prescription drug, a misdemeanor, and Beauregard with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and felony possession of Vicodin.

The drugs found in Hogan’s home during the search led Pelham police to charge him with two counts of possession of prescription drugs, felony possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and receiving stolen property.

Dracut police charged Hogan and the juvenile with armed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, both felonies. Hayes was charged with being an accessory after the fact.

After being arraigned in Lowell District Court on Tuesday, May 13, both Hogan and Hayes have pretrial sessions scheduled in Lowell District Court for Wednesday, July 9. Both of them, along with Beauregard, will answer to their Pelham drug charges in Salem District Court on Monday, June 9.

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Lowell Dog Park - Coming soon

By Tim | May 8, 2008

Lowell will get new park for dogs

By Michael Lafleur, mlafleur@lowellsun.com
LOWELL — Mill City canines will soon have a place to call their own.

City councilors last night unanimously approved the ordinance amendments necessary to create Lowell’s first dog park. City officials have said they hope to be able to complete the nearly $36,000 conversion of an out-of-use public park located alongside Route 110, off the ramp to the Hunts Falls Rotary, by early next month.

Anne Barton, deputy director of the city Division of Planning and Development, told councilors that city officials “have a very strict set of rules” for the park that includes licensing, vaccination and other requirements.

“We’re proceeding cautiously with this,” she said.

The site, a level, grassy expanse that overlooks the Merrimack River, is officially known as First Street Park. It is recognizable for the curved, candy-cane striped tubes jutting from the ground.

Crystal Arnott, a Back Central neighborhood resident and the founder of Lowell Unleashed, an association of local dog owners whose lobbying efforts led to the creation of the new park, said the new facility would provide a legal and safe place for dog owners to exercise their animals. The closest such parks are in Somerville and Derry, N.H.

“Any dog owner knows a happy dog is a tired dog,” she said. “And that keeps the neighbors happy as well.”

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2008 Ropes Vow Not to Suck

By Tim | May 8, 2008

2008 Schedule:

Week 1 - WIN 16-0
Week 2 - RAINOUT
Week 3 - May 28 Wed 6:30 vs. Fatcats
Week 4 - June 3 Tue 8:00 vs. Majors
Week 5 - June 11 Wed 8:00 vs. Donkeys
Week 6 - June 18 Wed 8:00 vs. Sports Zone
Week 7 - June 24 Tue 6:30 vs. Golden Snappas
Week 8 - Bye
Week 9 - July 7 Mon 6:30 vs. The Pizza Man
Week 9 - July 9 Wed 6:30 vs. something softball
Week 10 - July 18 Fri 8:00 vs. Avenue
Week 11 - Bye (trying to change game to Fri July 25 6:30)
Week 12 - Bye
Week 13 - Aug 5 Tue 8:00 vs. Dead Man Inc.
Week 13 - Aug 6 Wed 8:00 vs. Seagulls (game may change to week 11)
Week 14 - Aug 15 Fri 8:00 Rated R
Week 15 - Aug 20 Wed 6:30 Riderz
Week 16 - Aug 29 Fri 8:00 Shaddycack
Week 17 - Bye again!!!
Week 18 - Sept 8 Mon 6:30 The Crush

Playoffs
Sept 12  -  Sept 19 (first round)
Sept 22  - Sept 24 (semi finals)
Sept 25 - Sept 27 (Finals)

 

Its time for the 2008 Ropes to begin the pre-season warm ups/training session with a new line up:
1.  Scott  - OF
2.  Ass. Coach  - 1B
3.  New Guy Jay
4.  Coach Nick - Pitcher
5.  Johnny - SS/3B/OF
6.  Matt - 3B/SS
7.  Kim - OF/2B
8.  Swid - OF
9.  Davis - OF
10. Katie - Catcher
11. Steve - 2B/3B

Venue: Joker’s Lounge Dracut MA

Sport: Beer league Softball - An organized sports venue in which participants focus their efforts on both the event at hand and the post and pre-game ceremonies which include large consumptions of alcoholic beverages. Generally, these athletes take their involvement too seriously, comparing themselves to professional athletes. The post game ritual of sitting around several pitchers full of beer bullshitting about skill level or lack thereof is as important as the game itself. Sportsmanship, camaraderie and competition are the key elements. Amateur baseball or slow pitch softball league. derives its name due to the fact many of the players tend to be overweight and/or of below average physical condition, and consume massive quantities of beer.  Only the key team allow smoking on the field by one or many players.

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SPRING Compost - That time again…

By Tim | May 7, 2008
SPRING Compost Dates

The compost site located at the Dillon Center, 833 Hildreth St., will be opened this spring on the following dates: Saturday’s - April 12, April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10 and May 17.

With proof of residency, the compost site will accept leaves, brush and grass clippings. The hours of operation will be from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.

Screened compost is available at the compost site for residents to use on their lawns, gardens, and flowerbeds.

If you have any questions please call Public Works Director Michael Buxton at (978) 957-0411

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Dracut Election - update

By Tim | May 7, 2008

 The town election will be held May 6th for town positions and the Dracut Water Supply District. Regional Vocational School Committee nominee Brian J. Martin and Town Clerk Kathleen M. Graham will win their respective categories unless write-ins make up a significant amount of votes.

In other major positions, newcomer Ted Kosiavelon runs against incumbents John J. Zimini and Robert Cox for the two selectmen spots, incumbent Dennis “D.J.” Deeb runs against Matthew James Sheehan for the School Committee, and Charlie Maraganis runs against incumbent Gary W. McCarthy for the town moderator position.

*UPDATE*

Zimini and Cox remain in selectman spots

Sheehan beats Deeb in a small margin (27 votes)

McCarthy remains taking Maraganis

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