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VNA plans clinics in local towns in June

The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Lowell will provide senior health-maintenance and blood-pressure clinics at community sites throughout June.
The clinics will be conducted by a registered nurse, and available services will include medications review and weight and blood-pressure checks. No appointments are necessary, and the clinics are free to people 60 or older. For more [...]

Dracut Funeral Home in crematory lawsuit

from Lowell Sun.com
Dracut Funeral Home in crematory lawsuit
Over a dozen named for using N.H. facility
By DENNIS SHAUGHNESSEY, Sun Staff
DRACUT — Dracut Funeral Home is one of 18 defendants named in a class-action suit charging that they “turned a willful blind eye” to the mishandling of remains at a New Hampshire crematory.
At the center of the [...]

8th grade Hero in Dracut

A heroic, fast-thinking eighth-grader from Dracut will be honored today at the State House with the Citizen Safety Award for saving her sister’s life when a careening car was bearing down on them in a parking lot last summer.
Kylie Cormick, 13, will receive the honor for pulling her 5-year-old sister out of harm’s way after [...]

Small Fire at the Hometown Restaurant

A grill fire yesterday at the Hometown Restaurant in Dracut wasn’t so bad.
“Looked a lot worse than it was,” Deputy Fire Chief Mike Ralls said., The fire started in a grill in the restaurant at 1084 Lakeview Ave. about 4 p.m.
The blaze initially came across as a building fire in a commercial strip, which had [...]

Lowell/Dracut bridge to open in July

The Massachusetts Highway Department’s resident engineer for the region expects the much-delayed reconstruction of the O’Donnell Bridge over the Merrimack River to be done by early July.
The news came in a letter written by MassHighway Engineer Mark Fedele in reply to a motion from Councilor Richard Howe, who is critical of the project’s holdups. Councilors [...]

The Sun adds 2 local residents’ comics

Today, The Sun announces two new comics strips drawn by a pair of Dracut residents, 12-year-old Alex Cope and Bob Conroy, who is 52.
Despite their difference in age, Cope and Conroy share a passion for cartooning. I believe readers will enjoy their special talents in the comic strips they have created, Cope’s “On the Playgound” [...]

Gas Prices are up

Gas prices are rising. Over $2 now for regular gas.
What’s the cheapest gas in town and where do you fill up?

How well was your street plowed this winter?

Leave a comment about how well (or bad) the plows cleaned up your street.
I know Nashua Rd and Lakeview Ave looked great thoughout the snow storm but a lot of the side streets were hardly touched.

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