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Subject: Graduation Author: Proud of Dracut [Edit] Date Posted: 00:28 06/06/09 Sat The Dracut High Graduation was once again a beautiful ceremony. We put other towns to shame when it comes to graduations. The kids looked great and as a teacher I was proud and honored to be a part of it. I left with such a feeling of pride. Congratulations to the Class of 2009, may all your dreams and plans work out the way you wish. Thanks for making us proud. Replies: yes, it was nice -- meagain, 11:54 06/08/09 Mon All cities and towns have wonderful graduations!!! (NT) -- Inow, 18:26 06/08/09 Mon lack of comments -- parent, 00:11 06/18/09 Thu HELL HOLE? -- TWO CENTS, 07:29 06/19/09 Fri Yes hell hole! -- DHS Parent, 17:40 06/19/09 Fri Funny how time flies!!! -- Saadam Hussein, 14:33 06/20/09 Sat

Subject: What better way to honor Father’s Day than citing stats on “fatherless kids”? Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 23:18 06/19/09 Fri Facts on Fatherless Kids * 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census) * 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes * 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control) * 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.) * 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.) * 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God`s Children.) * 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988) * 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992) The State of Fatherhood * 37.9% of fathers have no access/visitation rights. (Source: p.6, col.II, para. 6, lines 4 & 5, Census Bureau P-60, #173, Sept 1991.) * "40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the non-custodial father's visitation on at least one occasion, to punish the ex-spouse." (Source: p. 449, col. II, lines 3-6, (citing Fulton) Frequency of visitation by Divorced Fathers; Differences in Reports by Fathers and Mothers. Sanford Braver et al, Am. J. of Orthopsychiatry, 1991.) * "Overall, approximately 50% of mothers "see no value in the father`s continued contact with his children...." (Source: Surviving the Breakup, Joan Kelly & Judith Wallerstein, p. 125) * Only 11% of mothers value their husband's input when it comes to handling problems with their kids. Teachers & doctors rated 45%, and close friends & relatives rated 16%. (Source: EDK Associates survey of 500 women for Redbook Magazine. Redbook, November 1994, p. 36) * "The former spouse (mother) was the greatest obstacle to having more frequent contact with the children." (Source: Increasing our understanding of fathers who have infrequent contact with their children, James Dudley, Family Relations, Vol. 4, p. 281, July 1991.) * "A clear majority (70%) of fathers felt that they had too little time with their children." (Source: Visitation and the Noncustodial Father, Mary Ann Kock & Carol Lowery, Journal of Divorce, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 54, Winter 1984.) * "Very few of the children were satisfied with the amount of contact with their fathers, after divorce." (Source: Visitation and the Noncustodial Father, Koch & Lowery, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 50, Winter 1984.) * "Feelings of anger towards their former spouses hindered effective involvement on the part of fathers; angry mothers would sometimes sabotage father's efforts to visit their children." (Source: Ahrons and Miller, Am. Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 63. p. 442, July `93.) * "Mothers may prevent visits to retaliate against fathers for problems in their marital or post-marital relationship." (Source: Seltzer, Shaeffer & Charing, Journal of Marriage & the Family, Vol. 51, p. 1015, November 1989.) * In a study: "Visitational Interference - A National Study" by Ms. J Annette Vanini, M.S.W. and Edward Nichols, M.S.W., it was found that 77% of non-custodial fathers are NOT able to "visit" their children, as ordered by the court, as a result of "visitation interference" perpetuated by the custodial parent. In other words, non-compliance with court ordered visitation is three times the problem of non-compliance with court ordered child support and impacts the children of divorce even more. (Originally published Sept. 1992) Child Support * Information from multiple sources show that only 10% of all noncustodial fathers fit the "deadbeat dad" category. * 90% of the fathers with joint custody paid the support due. Fathers with visitation rights pay 79.1%; and 44.5% of those with NO visitation rights still financially support their children. (Source: Census Bureau report. Series P-23, No. 173). * Additionally, of those not paying support, 66% are not doing so because they lack the financial resources to pay (Source: GAO report: GAO/HRD-92-39 FS). * 52% of fathers who owe child support earn less than $6,155 per year. (Source: The Poverty Studies Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,1993) * 66% of single mothers work less than full time while only 10% of fathers fall into this category. In addition, almost 47% of non-custodial mothers default on support compared with the 27% of fathers who default. (Source: Garansky and Meyer, DHHS Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, 1991). * 66% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay. (Source: U.S. General Accounting Office Report, GAO/HRD-92-39FS January 1992). * Total Custodial Mothers: 11,268,000 Total Custodial Fathers: 2,907,000 (Source: Current Population Reports, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Series P-20, No. 458, 1991). * The following is sourced from: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Income Security Policy, Oct. 1991, Authors: Meyer and Garansky. * Custodial mothers who receive a support award: 79.6% Custodial fathers who receive a support award: 29.9% * Non-custodial mothers who totally default on support: 46.9% * Non-custodial fathers who totally default on support: 26.9% False accusations of abuse: * 160,000 reports of suspected child abuse were reported in 1963. That number exploded to 1.7 million in 1985. * There were more than three million reports of alleged child abuse and neglect in 1995. However, two million of those complaints were without foundation or false! (Source: National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) Child Maltreatment 1995: Reports From the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System)

Subject: walgreens Author: happy (happy) [Edit] Date Posted: 18:03 04/23/09 Thu I think it's a great thing that walgreens will be building behind pollys corner,those houses that they will be buying are zoned commercial anyway.This will give new jobs for dracut and bring in people to spend at other locations in this area. I also sat in on the meetings that they had about traffic. Walgreens will fix the lights for the town that are falty and out dateded,and will cost 850,000 that walgreens will pay. so i say welcome to dracut walgreens Replies: DiRocco supports Walgreens by not having a review of the traffic study by a firm hired by the Town (NT) -- Neighbor, 21:32 04/23/09 Thu NEW DRACUT WALGREENS -- SUE, 14:04 06/06/09 Sat Good Luck -- Heather, 20:15 06/08/09 Mon walgreens -- townie, 19:49 04/29/09 Wed Walgreens -- Knuckles Pazinski, 14:34 04/30/09 Thu walgreens -- old timer (joyful), 15:33 04/30/09 Thu walgreens -- tom, 15:42 04/30/09 Thu walgreens -- john, 07:46 05/01/09 Fri Walgreens -- Concerned American, 14:38 05/04/09 Mon Say NO to walgreens -- Cal (annoyed), 08:24 05/30/09 Sat Walgreens -- Collinsville resident, 18:01 04/30/09 Thu Walgreens -- Collinsville Resident, 21:31 04/30/09 Thu walgreens -- Collinsville Resident ALSO, 11:11 05/01/09 Fri Walgreens -- Collinsville resident, 21:29 05/01/09 Fri WALGREENS -- PAUL T, 09:10 05/02/09 Sat GOOD POINT- PAUL T -- bond, 09:37 05/03/09 Sun One Lane, One ROad IN -- Cal, 08:26 05/30/09 Sat We need the tax revenue -- Warren Buffet, 14:21 05/01/09 Fri Walgreens -- Collinsville resident, 21:24 05/01/09 Fri Walgreens -- eclectacat, 14:22 05/02/09 Sat STATE REP -- COLLINSVILLE RESIDENT, 11:58 05/02/09 Sat Lights? -- Dracut Rez, 09:16 05/04/09 Mon Agree - nothing wrong with the lights -- Friendly driver, 10:39 05/04/09 Mon BE HAPPY SOMEONE LIKE WALGREENS WANTS TO BUILD IN THIS SH#T PART OF TOWN (NT) -- JOE, 11:26 05/04/09 Mon Walgreens -- Concerned American (Patriotic), 14:35 05/04/09 Mon Hey Joe -- Collinsville resident, 08:34 05/05/09 Tue Joe's a Loser -- Collinsville Resident, 17:30 05/05/09 Tue TWO CENTS -- TWO CENTS, 22:22 05/06/09 Wed commercial zoned -- brian (confused), 18:21 05/15/09 Fri Our elected officials,exposed by D.A.T.V.!! & Mr.Bond! -- Walter Cronkite, 15:01 05/23/09 Sat Bobby you said you would give up the insurance if the Town needed the $$$. WELL (NT) -- Voter, 22:33 05/23/09 Sat Bobby Cox said what this morning on WCAP -- Moe, 22:53 05/23/09 Sat Bobby you guys were angry cause Joey had his hat on!!!!! -- Bonnie, 17:05 05/24/09 Sun The projected size is much greater than B3 zoning allows -- Abby, 10:20 06/12/09 Fri Actually I missed something -- Abby again, 10:26 06/12/09 Fri July 8 Meeting -- Abby- We need YOU!, 11:27 06/12/09 Fri Correction; B2=no go but B3 allows it on lots over 5k by special permit -- Abby again, 11:33 06/12/09 Fri Intersection -- Concerned American, 14:43 05/04/09 Mon all for change -- another collinville resident, 09:52 05/05/09 Tue (choices) -- MILL ST REZ, 16:27 05/05/09 Tue AGREE WITH DRACUT REZ -- MILL STREET RESIDENT, 21:16 05/05/09 Tue change is coming,like it or not -- sunny, 09:31 05/06/09 Wed I Agree and what makes me pi$$ed off is these kicks will be playing on that feild (NT) -- I hate people havng fun, 15:11 05/06/09 Wed What is broke? -- Dracut Rez, 06:35 05/07/09 Thu Designated Lanes -- Nigel Tufnel, 22:49 05/07/09 Thu I think change at the lights will be good (welcome walgreens) (NT) -- herb chambers, 18:12 05/15/09 Fri take down your ugly signs -- bitch, 18:40 05/22/09 Fri So that's your argument in support of a large pharmacy? -- That the it's less ugly than the signs?, 10:56 06/12/09 Fri Intersection has to many cars lights won't change that -- Cal, 08:35 05/30/09 Sat Happy Happy -- Bill Pappas, 19:07 05/16/09 Sat You cannot be serious -- Millie, 21:45 05/16/09 Sat pappy -- klp, 19:34 05/28/09 Thu law suit -- paul, 18:46 05/22/09 Fri Wallgreens -- bill Pappas, 23:13 05/22/09 Fri WHAT RITE AID? -- Bob, 10:00 05/23/09 Sat Walgreens -- eclectacat, 20:58 05/23/09 Sat I think this will be great for dracut (NT) -- ken, 14:48 05/28/09 Thu Secret meetings by Public Officials,Georgie m,Jimmy O'... -- Ima, 17:01 05/28/09 Thu WALGREENS IS COMING -- no name, 13:37 06/18/09 Thu Awesome -- Dracut, 17:43 06/19/09 Fri We need the tax base that a Wallgreen will provide!!! -- Bob tha' Builder, 14:30 06/18/09 Thu

Subject: One (1) Dracut cop is deemed "deceptive" on lie detector regarding missing drugs probe Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 11:27 06/17/09 Wed (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-17-09) Dracut officer's polygraph on missing drugs called 'deceptive'; eight others 'truthful' By Dennis Shaughnessey dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com DRACUT — Only one of nine police officers who took polygraph tests in connection with missing drugs from an evidence trailer behind the former police station was shown to be “deceptive” in some responses, officials said yesterday. In a letter to Dracut Police Chief Kevin Richardson, Alfred Donovan, control chief of the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council’s Internal Affairs Unit, who is in charge of the investigation, says that eight of the nine officers who have submitted to polygraph tests thus far were determined to be “truthful” regarding their knowledge and involvement in the theft of more than $80,000 in marijuana in April 2003. Donovan, who is Tewksbury’s police chief, said his team has interviewed 25 Dracut police officers, as well as several suspected drug dealers who were active in 2003, about the time that the evidence was stolen. Richardson called for the internal investigation in October, after an investigation by former Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley and current DA Gerry Leone concluded there was not enough evidence to pursue criminal charges. “Significant progress” has been made, Donovan writes, although he bemoans the fact that the theft happened more than six years ago. “The length of time between the incident and the start of the internal investigation has hampered the investigative process by making the investigative procedures more difficult,” his letter states. Donovan said the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council, or NEMLEC, has requested the help of a specific federal agency to conduct a more effective investigation. The council is awaiting a response. Donovan does not mention which agency has been contacted. Dracut Town Manager Dennis Piendak said he was not informed as to which federal agency is potentially assisting in the probe. He also has not been told the name of the officer who was deemed “deceptive.” “Even if I did know the name, I would not disclose it,” Piendak said. Donovan plans to interview and perhaps administer polygraph tests to several more Dracut officers who were either working the night the theft was believed to have happened or who had knowledge of where and what type of evidence was stored in the trailer. Union officials have lashed out against the inquiry and the use of lie-detector equipment. Jerry Flynn, executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Association, which represents Dracut police officers, said Donovan should disclose any information he has garnered so far. “If he has any evidence against any officer, then by all means, produce it,” Flynn said. “This investigation is a continuation of the witch hunt that began six years ago. It is our firm belief that no Dracut police officer was involved in the alleged theft of evidence.” Richardson said that because the investigation is ongoing, he is not at liberty to comment. Selectmen Chairman George Malliaros said that even though the investigation is taking longer than initially anticipated, he is pleased the NEMLEC team has been vigilant. “I’m happy to hear they are making progress,” he said. “Hopefully, the officers will all be vindicated, but at any rate, nobody can say that this issue is being swept under the rug.” Replies: I WONDER HOW POPULAR SELECTMAN GEORGE MALLIAROS WITH THE DRACUT P.D.? (NT) -- I WONDER?, 12:48 06/17/09 Wed The guilty ones are not liking Georgy (NT) -- Casper, 20:28 06/18/09 Thu Just Curious??? -- Saadam Hussein, 13:21 06/17/09 Wed

Subject: Walgreens proposal is on Planning Board's agenda tonight @ 7 Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 14:10 06/10/09 Wed (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-10-09) Dracut Planning Board tackles Walgreen's plan on Wednesday night By Bridget Scrimenti bscrimenti@lowellsun.com DRACUT -- Joan Adams feels sick when she thinks about it. For the past 31 years, Adams and her husband Ron Levasseur have lovingly tended to their home on Coburn Avenue. But lately they've been feeling like there's a dark cloud hanging over the neighborhood. A recent proposal to build a Walgreens drugstore on the corner of Lakeview Avenue and Mammoth Road has Adams and other residents worried that the store will severely impact their quality of life. "I don't sleep at night," Adams said. "I pull the blinds down and think of Walgreens." On Wednesday night, the Planning Board will hold another public meeting at 7 p.m. in Harmony Hall to discuss the proposed project and other items. If approved, the project would knock down five houses, building the retail store next to Coburn Avenue, on the cusp of a residential neighborhood. However, the land has been zoned commercial for at least the past couple decades, and homeowners willing to sell their homes to Walgreens currently have their properties under purchase and sale agreements. "We have no choice on selling it (the land) as residential," said Norman Marx, who owns two single-family homes and three lots under purchase and sale agreements. "The project the size of Walgreens is the only one that will be able to afford the upgrades to the intersection that will improve traffic flow in the area," Marx said. To mitigate the project, Walgreens will put a state-of-the-art traffic light at the intersection and widen the road, a total of about $600,000 in improvements, said Joseph Clermont, a Dracut attorney representing Walgreens. "In the big picture it will be beneficial not only to the neighborhood, but all the residents in town, giving them a safer intersection and an intersection that flows properly," Clermont said. Traffic is notoriously horrendous at the corner of Lakeview Avenue and Mammoth Road. There's no left turn signal, while cars traveling southbound on Mammoth Road that are turning left experience a delay in the traffic light, meaning they could be in the middle of the intersection in the way of oncoming traffic. However, neighbors and abutters are worried that more drivers will use Coburn Avenue and other residential streets as a cut-through when traffic backs up on Lakeview and Mammoth. "It's already a major cut-through, " said Eric Pintal. "There's a lot of kids on our street and the cars just fly down the road." On Monday, Planning Board members and representatives from Walgreens walked though the neighborhood to evaluate how the project would impact abutters. The project plans to put the store which totals close to 14,000 sq. ft. on nearly two acres. The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously against the project, claiming it wouldn't benefit the neighborhood. "It's sort of like the famous movie the Wizard of Oz -- when Dorothy's house gets taken by a tornado and plummets on the earth," said Selectmen Chairman George Malliaros. "Except it isn't Dorothy's house it's Walgreens," Malliaros said. On Mammoth Road and other surrounding streets, residents have red and white "Stop Walgreens" signs on their lawn. Many residents claim their opposition to the project has nothing against the corporate chain, just their location. "I have nothing against Walgreens itself, it's just a poor choice in location that will cause adverse effects on the community," said Ralph Dionne, who lives on Coburn Avenue. For Adams and her husband Levasseur, the back of the store will abut their backyard, while their bedrooms will also face Walgreens. "This is a nice neighborhood," Levasseur said. "This is a nice neighborhood that they're trying to tear apart." Replies: Find another location -- Heather, 22:48 06/10/09 Wed Walgreens' bid draws ire of neighbors -- Kopy Kitten, 08:46 06/11/09 Thu New Location Proposal -- Dracuteer, 09:43 06/11/09 Thu CVS supposedly going there (NT) -- bill, 23:24 06/11/09 Thu I would love to see something done with the lot -- nopreference, 09:37 06/12/09 Fri What lot? -- Abby, 16:57 06/12/09 Fri The old Civic Club -- nopreference, 08:23 06/16/09 Tue WALGREENS -- kid, 20:05 06/12/09 Fri It's not "zoned to be here". -- Plans over 5k' are by special permit only,, 23:15 06/12/09 Fri Why don't you... -- CDB, 07:20 06/15/09 Mon Thanks Idiot -- Resident, 07:56 06/16/09 Tue Name calling?!? That's not going to help me see your side. -- CDB, 10:26 06/16/09 Tue I call a spade a spade. -- Resident, 15:27 06/17/09 Wed Walgreens -- eclectacat, 00:07 06/13/09 Sat Polly's corner -- Confused, 08:27 06/13/09 Sat Screw polly -- Citizen 1, 13:20 06/17/09 Wed You have issues -- I loved Polly, 14:07 06/17/09 Wed want to sell me some -- Citizen 1, 22:35 06/17/09 Wed

Subject: Meet Level 3 Sex Offender Ralph W. Goodwin Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 01:04 06/13/09 Sat Name: Ralph W. Goodwin Age: 48 Address: 456 Broadway Road, Dracut MA Profession: Writes jokes for David Letterman Convicted: 9-28-90 Number of offenses: 3 Charged with: Rape of a Child with Force $64,000 Question: Would you ever allow this gentleman (or David Letterman) to babysit your child? Replies: CAN YOU POST HIS (NT) -- PICTURE IN NEWSPAPER???, 14:39 06/13/09 Sat nice guy -- glas84, 16:43 06/13/09 Sat Hop hes next to the no right on red this winter (NT) -- pissed off granpa who cant spell crap, 22:55 06/13/09 Sat Looks different now -- Look, 12:23 06/15/09 Mon HES KINDA (NT) -- CUTE!!!, 18:49 06/16/09 Tue

Subject: Website formed on pushing CBS to fire its pedophile talk show host Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 07:53 06/16/09 Tue Fire David Letterman.com

Subject: Letterman likens Palin to “slutty flight attendant”; Rev. Wright criticizes “them Jews” Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 16:39 06/10/09 Wed (KITTEN NOTE: And you people thought Dracut After Dark was vulgar and slanderous. The first entry here was posted on, www.fireandreamitchell.com , and is in reference to comedian David Letterman’s monologue last night. Had Letterman made these “slutty flight attendant” comments about Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama instead of Sarah Palin, do you think they’d be equally funny? Or how about instead of Bristol Palin, Letterman had said one of the Obama daughters got “knocked up” by Alex Rodriquez – wouldn’t that have been “pee-in-your-pants” hysterical? The second entry features Rev. Jeremiah Wright posted on, foxnews.com . Hypothetically speaking, if George W. Bush’s pastor had made a public slanderous comment about Jewish people, what do you suppose the outcry would be against then-President Bush? Can you say, “Double Standard in America”?) As it becomes more and more apparent as each show painfully passes by, how washed up liberal turd David Letterman is, he still needs to find some material that will appeal to at least some fringe elements. Last night’s show was no exception, as Letterman proclaimed: Sarah Palin has that “slutty flight attendant look”. Then Letterman goes on to knock Palin’s daughter Bristol, joking about how while Sarah Palin was at the Yankees game, she got “confused” during the 7th inning stretch, because Bristol Palin got “knocked up” by Alex Rodriquez. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # In a racially charged interview, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said that President Obama hasn't spoken to him since they parted ways last year, because "them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me." He suggested White House advisers were keeping the two separate. "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright said, according to Virginia's Daily Press. "They will not let him ... talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is." Obama left Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago last year following the very public controversy over his inflammatory sermons. Wright sporadically has granted media interviews and made public appearances since. In the Daily Press article, he also claimed that the president did not send a delegation to the recent world racism conference in Geneva for fear of offending Jews. "Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel," Wright said. Wright said he voted for Obama in November and has no regrets over their severed relationship. "Regret for what ... that the media went back five, seven, 10 years and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons to hear what I've been preaching for 20 years?" he said. Replies: now wait a minute here -- justme, 10:37 06/12/09 Fri Imus & Severin were disciplined for similar improprieties -- CBS ought to terminate Letterman, 23:00 06/13/09 Sat CBS ought to terminate Letterman -- wr fgth, 05:32 06/14/09 Sun

Subject: The lost greyhound Author: dog owner [Edit] Date Posted: 15:04 06/07/09 Sun Did the family ever fing there greyhound? i still see some faded signs up on poles in east dracut cant read the number to call and ask them. Replies: Lost Greyhound -- Lunatic Fringe, 23:59 06/10/09 Wed Thats unfortuante -- Dracuteer, 09:54 06/11/09 Thu They lied! (NT) -- Mr Dracut, 21:40 06/12/09 Fri I agree (NT) -- it was a hoax, 14:38 06/13/09 Sat who lied -- D-M, 16:40 06/13/09 Sat Lied About What? -- Lunatic Fringe, 15:15 06/13/09 Sat who lied what hoax -- dog owner, 22:41 06/13/09 Sat

Subject: Town Father’s TV camera fiasco is reminiscent to Shaw’s legal indemnity in Gauthier lawsuit Author: Nostradamus [Edit] Date Posted: 00:59 06/04/09 Thu It was almost seven years ago, Warren “Barnyard Animal” Shaw had just “retired” from the Board of Selectmen and he became one of several Dracut public officials who had been served court papers in the then-terminated Building Inspector Ernie Gauthier’s wrongful termination lawsuit. Other named defendants in the lawsuit included: Town Manager Dennis Piendak, and, local barroom owner (and then-recently appointed School Food Service Director) Michael “Chapter 11" Maguire. Why would I be bringing up this situation now? I think there’s a strong parallel here when it comes to obscure, seemingly insignificant public hearings between anything remotely associated with the proposed Walgreen’s on Mammoth Road, and what our Town Fathers experienced in the summer of ‘02 concerning the construction of a cellular phone tower on Route 113. With Warren being Warren, Mr. Shaw started using his radio show as a public pulpit to “trash” Gauthier soon after he was slapped with his court papers. Among other things, Warren accused Gauthier of being a “liar” and he even GUARANTEED his listening audience that the court was going to drop the former building inspector’s lawsuit because, according to Mr. Shaw, it was “frivolous”. This rant of Warren’s continued on the airwaves for, at least, several weeks. So the ‘02 Selectmen advertised for a special public hearing to discuss the construction of a cellular phone tower off Broadway Road (Route 113) sometime in the middle of that summer. According to the Bylaws, the ONLY item a public board or committee was allowed to discuss and vote on in a special public hearing was that contained in the actual advertisement, which in this particular case was the construction of a cellular phone tower on Route 113. Since the subject of that public hearing didn’t appear too earth-shattering in the controversy department, none of the local media members or anybody operating a local access TV camera bothered showing up. Piendak remembered 2 items that needed immediate attention Soon after the selectmen discussed all the concerns with the cellular phone representatives, Town Manager Piendak quickly interjected that since the Town Attorney was present there were two more items the board really needed to address: 1) Whether or not to give former selectman Warren Shaw full legal indemnity (or pay all his legal expenses) in the Ernie Gauthier wrongful termination lawsuit, and, 2) Whether to increase the Town of Dracut’s lawsuit liability insurance to $1 million. But wait a second – why would a “straight-shooter” like Warren Shaw, who had been ranting every week for the previous month or two on his radio show that Gauthier was a “liar” and GUARANTEEING to everybody that the judge was going to dismiss this lawsuit because it was “frivolous” need any legal protection in this case? It appears Mr. Shaw was talking a real tough game on his radio show, but was simply crapping in his stinkin’ pants behind the scenes. Can you say, “sanctimonious son of a bitch”? Besides that, the Town of Dracut was now forced to pay Warren’s private attorney, Phil Nyman of Lowell, tens of thousands of dollars to specifically represent the legal interests of this BLEEPhole Barnyard Animal who was simply pissing off Gauthier week after week on his radio show. Would Warren have kept his big mouth shut about this lawsuit if HE was paying for his own legal expenses – I tend to think so. Thank God for Dougie Willett making a fuss over this incident At the next public Selectmen’s meeting, Dougie Willett deliberately brought up the shady and sleazy implications surrounding that special hearing, which was ONLY supposed to be to address the construction of a cellular phone tower. Then-chairman Jack DiTillio turned to Willett and said: “If you’ve got a problem with the way the selectmen handled that hearing Mr. Willett, why don’t you report us to the FBI, or the DA’s office?” It was that type of pompous arrogance that’ll always be associated with Jack DiTillio’s legacy as a Dracut selectman, I swear to God. Incidentally, DiTillio and then-Selectman Dennis “Bald-Headed Devil” Williams were both co-hosts on Mr. Shaw’s local access show, Weekly Round Table, and yet neither had any inclination of publicly disclosing they had a blatant conflict of interest with Warren – and that sure didn’t prevent either one of them for voting to give their “buddy” legal indemnity in the Gauthier case. Also, if it wasn't for Willett bringing up this subject at the first available public Selectmen's meeting, the Dracut taxpayers probably wouldn't have ever heard anything about Shaw being given legal indemnity in this lawsuit. And, with Warren being Warren, Mr. Shaw then soon turned his venom on Dougie by referring to him as a moron and an idiot on his radio show -- so what else is new? If there was any poetic justice involved in this story, Warren’s radio station would hit the proverbial crapper in ratings a year or two later. You might say, Mr. Shaw, along with most of his on-air colleagues, had a wee bit of a “credibility” problem and his prediction on the Gauthier case (the Town agreed to pay Gauthier an out-of-court settlement, which is a far cry from being thrown out of court for supposedly being a "frivolous" case) was just the tip of the iceberg. It’s too bad we couldn’t video tape ALL public hearings which take place with our appointed and elected boards and committees. Unfortunately, there’s just not enough volunteers to go around to operate the cameras and help run the studio. Until then, it’ll probably always be those seemingly obscure meetings that’ll generate the most concern and controversy. Replies: Daigle weighs-in on Gauthier lawsuit -- Roger L. Daigle via Kopy Kitten, 22:58 06/12/09 Fri

Subject: State Rep Garry justifies Hack Holidays using Slippery Slope Argument Author: Nostradamus [Edit] Date Posted: 15:42 06/07/09 Sun (The following was a response from State Representative Colleen Garry of Dracut to someone named “Dan” regarding her support of keeping Bunker Hill and Evacuation Day as bonafide State holidays, which she posted last Friday, June 5th on “Pee Wee Herman” Shawn’s Internet message board. Later that same evening, Channel 5 in Boston reported that these two particular holidays will cost Massachusetts taxpayers between $5-$10 million in lost production to give our government employees these days off as paid holidays. What do YOU think of this situation? BTW, I am NOT “Dan”, although I admire and respect him/her for getting Rep Garry to publicly address this issue on some type of forum.) Dear Mr. “Dan”, “...In regards to the Bunker Hill and Evacuation Day holidays, I listened intently to the debate on the issue the other evening. I felt once we start taking holidays away from people, where do we stop. Do we expand them so all get them since people seem to be angry that only Suffolk county get them or do we eliminate others…. Thanksgiving(it celebrates what happened in Plymouth and we should be thankful everyday)… should we eliminate Christmas because only Christians celebrate it? I felt that it was important to the legislators whose districts honor the sacrifices of their ancestors in their neighborhoods. What about Labor Day? Martin Luther King Day? Patriots Day? Presidents’ Day? where do we stop. Most importantly, I felt the debate was particularly a political one set up by the Republicans which I feel our time would have been better spent addressing the real troubles that the state faces…unemployment, health care and balanceing (s.p.) the budget. If you have any further questions, please do nto (s.p.) hesitate to contact me directly at repcolleengarry@aol.com . Sincerely” Replies: Coping with a scandal? Save those holidays! (Lowell Sun, 6/7/09 ) -- The Column, 15:58 06/07/09 Sun How many more Mr. Speaker... How many more? (NT) -- Papa Smurf, 18:50 06/07/09 Sun Colleen needs to go,, -- we need someone to challange her., 02:27 06/08/09 Mon What an excellent opportunity for Jim Ogonowski -- N., 00:37 06/10/09 Wed EVERYONE KNOWS THAT JERK JIMMY O wants THIS (NT) -- Moe, 22:36 06/12/09 Fri 5.5% Pay Raise in January!! -- Dracut Resident (Angry), 10:14 06/10/09 Wed Perhaps it's time to elect a Republican for State Rep (NT) -- Democratic monopoly is recipe for disaster, 11:33 06/10/09 Wed Colleen - "Local Holiday" vote -- eclectacat, 22:22 06/10/09 Wed check your facts, who's ignorant now -- Secretary of State Website, 19:23 06/11/09 Thu What point are you trying make? -- Dracut Resident, 10:17 06/12/09 Fri

Subject: Level Three Sex Offender in Dracut Author: Informer [Edit] Date Posted: 10:07 06/11/09 Thu New level three sex offender in town Ralph Goodwin 456 Broadway Rd.........watch your kids.....he is a kidnapper and rapist. Replies: Harold Avenue has one too (NT) -- CDR, 14:03 06/12/09 Fri What a scum -- dracut man, 22:29 06/12/09 Fri

Subject: Controversial Rally Cap Pub will close @ midnite for a month per Selectmen's vote Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 09:20 06/10/09 Wed (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-10-09) Board comes down on pub By Ed Burns Sun Correspondent DRACUT -- Closing time will come a little earlier for a local pub after selectmen voted to punish the establishment for repeated complaints. Selectmen voted, 3-1, to move back the closing time of the Rally Cap Pub on Pleasant Street to midnight for 30 days. It presently closes at 2 a.m. John Zimini was the dissenting vote -- but not because he was seeking to give the pub a break. He recited a laundry list of recent police calls to the pub, including nine for assault and battery, four for malicious property damage and two armed robberies. "We're lucky there hasn't been a murder down there, but I guarantee there will be if this continues," said Zimini. But Roland Milliard, an attorney for pub owner Edward Morgan, told selectmen that the claims were exaggerated, and that Morgan shouldn't be held responsible for what happened at neighboring businesses. Milliard said 20 of the 82 incidents to which police responded between September 2005 and March 26 of this year were called in by William Kaltsas, owner of a neighboring business, Dracut Auto Butler. Kaltsas has reported multiple incidences of damage at his business. "I find it odd that someone would say they spent $1,500 out of pocket to repair damage," said Milliard. "If there are all these problems, a $900 chain-link fence would solve the problem." Milliard also presented the board with a letter from an individual charged in one of the related offenses stating that Morgan and his establishment had nothing to do with anything he was charged with. But Zimini wasn't satisfied with the defense, and questioned Morgan's dedication to solving the problem. "It's insulting for this gentleman to come here denying all the incidents and hand us what I consider to be a bogus document," he said. "When is this gentleman going to stand up and take responsibility? He's shown no remorse." Zimini was in favor of a much harsher punishment, including having the pub close at 11 p.m. for the next six months. But the rest of the board was concerned that that would go too far. Selectman Joe DiRocco agreed there is a problem, but shutting down the pub at 11 p.m. for six months would essentially put it out of business, he said. "It's pretty alarming the number of times we've been there," said DiRocco. "I just think we have to look at what we do." The board voted 3-1 to close the pub at midnight for 30 days, beginning June 19. The decision is still subject to appeal by Morgan to the state-run Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. Replies: Yet another exciting loss for Atty. Roland Milliard versus Town of Dracut (NT) -- This guy ought to pursue another line of work, 11:23 06/10/09 Wed Of course he lost with this flimsy argument... -- SickOfLosers, 15:01 06/10/09 Wed Zimini -- Jay Turner, 13:28 06/10/09 Wed Agree -- Dracut Rez A Dent, 14:20 06/10/09 Wed The cops showed up 82 times and your shi%^*$^ all over Zimini. (NT) -- Meg Griffin, 16:15 06/10/09 Wed Zimini deserves it (NT) -- Hack man, 21:41 06/12/09 Fri neighbor -- midget hater, 18:25 06/10/09 Wed Meg...get the facts -- Jay Turner, 09:47 06/11/09 Thu Next stop -- Dracut Rez A Dent, 07:38 06/11/09 Thu Are you kidding me -- Dracuteer, 09:51 06/11/09 Thu

Subject: 'BAD JOKE': Teacher allegedly writes 'loser' on 7th-grader's head Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 07:28 06/03/09 Wed (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-3-09) By Dennis Shaughnessey dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com DRACUT -- School officials are investigating allegations that a teacher at Lakeview Junior High School wrote the word "loser" on a student's forehead. On the advice of legal counsel, Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin would not address the specifics of the allegations, but said he received an anonymous e-mail about the incident and described it as "part distortion, part outright falsehoods and part innocent, mutual joking." "The events in the anonymous e-mail were taken out of context and described by someone speaking from third- and possibly fourth-hand information," Mullin said, adding that he has met with the teacher, the student and the parents to "ensure that all interactions between teacher and student remain respectful and appropriate." School Committee Chairman Matthew Sheehan said the incident took place last week and involved a seventh-grader. He hinted that the incident was "in fun." "I don't think the teacher meant to humiliate the child whatsoever," Sheehan said. "It was just a bad joke." The incident created a buzz at Monday's Town Meeting, held in the high-school auditorium. Several conflicting accounts circulated through the lobby before the meeting convened. Mullin said that although school policy is to disregard anonymous complaints, officials continue to investigate the allegations. The person who sent the e-mail "appears to have had no direct knowledge of the incident as described," Mullin said. Replies: Jr high incident -- Outraged citizen, 07:43 06/03/09 Wed Does anybody know the incident (NT) -- with the L.J.H. gym teacher, 18:14 06/05/09 Fri A national of over reactors -- Dracut Parent, 08:38 06/03/09 Wed The new supers are idiots -- longtime resident (irritated), 08:39 06/03/09 Wed Are you for real -- resident, 10:13 06/03/09 Wed Mullin -- Another Longtime Resident, 15:38 06/03/09 Wed Can someone explain how you get an anonymous email? (NT) -- Parent, 22:09 06/07/09 Sun anonymous email -- Dracut Parent, 12:46 06/08/09 Mon So did u send it? (NT) -- ????, 10:29 06/09/09 Tue Where are the parents or said child -- Dracuteer, 11:45 06/03/09 Wed DOES ANYONE KNOW THE REAL STORY -- JJ, 13:03 06/03/09 Wed GIve me a break! -- Parent of Jr High Student, 13:33 06/03/09 Wed TWO PENNIES -- TWO CENTS, 13:51 06/03/09 Wed this is rediculious -- student, 16:51 06/03/09 Wed Let's Focus This Much Effort on Learning -- Dr. Right, 20:22 06/03/09 Wed Who's in charge here? -- The Jr. High is a Joke, 21:36 06/03/09 Wed Not surprised -- Parent, 10:20 06/04/09 Thu Agreed -- Parent, 21:44 06/05/09 Fri what schools are the drug addict (NT) -- teachers in????, 21:30 06/06/09 Sat Anybody remember? -- Panama Red, 17:10 06/09/09 Tue It was meant to be fun according to my 7th grader -- Parent of a 7th grader, 21:17 06/07/09 Sun Im sure the little bastard deserved it -- myself, 22:34 06/09/09 Tue NICE LANGUAGE AND SPELLING BUT IS IS NECESSARY (NT) -- I agree, 10:32 06/10/09 Wed

Subject: Jimmy O., hopes to "strip the veil of corporate secrecy" behind Dracut cable TV on June 23 Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 07:26 06/07/09 Sun (published in, Lowell Sun, The Column, 6-7-09) WHEN DRACUT Selectman James O'Loughlin went on a tirade recently, concerning the taping of a special meeting held in the lunchroom at Town Hall, he managed to step on the toes of a group of volunteers, including members of the Dracut Access Television Board of Directors. O'Loughlin was upset that selectmen were not notified that DATV cameras would be taping the 10-minute meeting and wanted to know who put them up to it. During a regularly scheduled meeting, O'Loughlin took a swipe at the cable people, asking them to appear at a future meeting to answer questions about the access corporation and promising to "strip the veil of corporate secrecy." "Maybe we should be taping their board meetings," he said. Board President Jack Lyons, a former selectman, called O'Loughlin's comments "shallow and disgraceful," and said "his reckless insinuations were very disturbing." "(O'Loughlin) has gone off on these self-serving rants over the years but to attack this particular board, all of whom he knows very well, is just too, too shameful!" The seven-member board includes current Selectman John Zimini, current School Committee member Michael McNamara and former School Committee member May Paquette. It will be interesting to hear the discussion that takes place when Lyons appears before O'Loughlin on June 23. Replies: Selectman O'Loughlin did you forget something!!! -- We The People, 21:09 06/08/09 Mon Selectman O'Loughlin did you forget something!!! -- We the People, 21:20 06/08/09 Mon Selectman O'Loughlin did you forget something!!! -- We The People, 21:22 06/08/09 Mon Selectman O'Loughlin did you forget something!!! -- We The People, 21:23 06/08/09 Mon JIMMY O HAS TO GO"" (NT) -- PORGY, 23:41 06/09/09 Tue

Subject: School superintedent Mullin vows to do his best to keep class sizes down Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 08:09 06/09/09 Tue (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-9-09) Class sizes worry parents of Dracut students By Michael Wurm Sun Correspondent DRACUT -- About 15 mothers of students at the Campbell Elementary School packed the seats at the Dracut School Committee meeting last night to discuss the likely increase of class sizes at the school. "We have great concern about class size," resident Kim Tyler said. "That's why we came tonight." She said she is worried that if teachers are laid off or retiring and are not replaced, her daughter's third-grade class size would rise to more than 30 students. She asked how the class sizes would be balanced among the different schools, so that individual schools do not bear the brunt of any reductions. Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin assured the parents that school officials will do their best to keep class sizes down. The committee voted to approve the $26.9 million budget approved by Town Meeting for the School Department. Mullin said he is working with staff and School Committee members on the reduced budget, and they have had to "take the figures and go back to the drawing board." The complex variables in the process this year have resulted in "eight to 10 versions" of the budget at this point, Mullin said. He said final numbers are dependent on the share of funding the department gets from state sources such as Chapter 70 aid and special education, and what the requirements are for how that money gets used. Mullin also referred to the federal stimulus funding that he stressed is above and beyond the $26.9 million budget approved by Town Meeting. After the meeting, Mullin said the stimulus money will amount to $1.4 million for use over two years, but only half will be able to go toward staff salaries. He also told the committee that in an effort to reduce the impact on class sizes, he hopes "to tighten up operations and utilities" line items. Further decisions cannot be made, Mullin said, until he knows what all the state aid figures are, creating a new bottom line. Only then will Mullin and the School Committee be able to fashion a realistic budget with specific cuts.

Subject: Dracut cops appear contractually protected from any Quinn Bill cuts Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 07:31 06/08/09 Mon (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-8-09. Article was edited from most of the comments about communities outside Dracut.) Quinn Bill cut would squeeze budgets By Bridget Scrimenti bscrimenti@lowellsun.com LOWELL -- While lawmakers review ways to slash funding for police educational incentives, local towns are bracing to pick up the tab. There are currently three state budget proposals under consideration from the governor, House and Senate, all aiming to cut the $50.2 million allocated for the Quinn Bill, which provides bonuses to officers who further their education. The Quinn Bill requires cities and towns to pay for half of the educational incentive, while the state pays the other half. Officers receive a 10 percent bonus to their base salary for an associate's degree, 20 percent for a bachelor's degree and 25 for a master's degree. The benefit is also added into pension calculations. However, if lawmakers decide to cut Quinn Bill funding, Lowell, Dracut and Westford are contractually obligated to pay the town's portion and also pick up the state's decreased portion of the funding. But other towns have language in their contract that doesn't require the town to pay the state's portion. Dracut pays about $120,000 in educational bonuses a year for officers, and would have to pay close to an additional $96,000 if the Senate's proposal passes. The Senate cut funding by 80 percent, appropriating $10 million for Quinn Bill funding. Gov. Deval Patrick's proposal decreases spending from $50 million to $42 million, while the House budget proposes a 50 percent cut. The House proposal includes language that grandfathers all officers currently enrolled in the program, but does not offer the bonus to officers hired after July 1. Dracut has already cut $700,000 out of its municipal budget to plan for a decrease in state local aid, Quinn Bill funding, and other revenue losses. A portion of these cuts include not filling six police positions, as well as multiple positions in other town departments. "We tried to take a proactive approach so we could avoid any possible layoffs," said Dennis Piendak, Dracut's town manager...

Subject: Mullin: Teachers' contract should not cause job losses Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 08:38 05/12/09 Tue (published in, Lowell Sun, 5-12-09) By Dennis Shaughnessey dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com DRACUT -- Even though the teachers have refused to take a pay freeze in fiscal 2010, Superintendent of Schools Spencer Mullin is confident he can get through this initial budget without job losses. After last night's meeting, which contained very little discussion of the budget, pending job losses or the teacher union's refusal to renegotiate its recent three-year contract to include a wage freeze for 2010, Mullin said he would use a portion of stimulus funds expected to come into the town to save jobs in special education and other departments. "We'll be losing positions, but not jobs," Mullin said. "We'll be able to do that through attrition, retirements and resignations that are forthcoming. We're in good shape for the shape we're in." The School Department will present its $29.3 million fiscal 2010 budget, which represents a $1.1 million increase from this year's budget, to the town's Finance Committee in coming days, hoping to win approval before bringing it to voters at the June Town Meeting. Mullin said his staff has attempted to meet Town Manager Dennis Piendak's budget recommendation that includes a buy-back request of $350,000. But talk after the meeting centered around the teachers' refusal to go back to the negotiating table. The School Committee in December, agreed to give the town's 275 teachers a three-year raise that amounts to an increase of almost 9 percent. Union President Joyce Desjardins said after the meeting, "The teachers have decided that we're not interested in renegotiating." "The situation is well-known," she said. "We are so far behind our neighboring communities, and we made major efforts to bring our salaries somewhere in line with what the other towns are getting." Desjardins pointed out that Dracut teacher salaries are 11 percent below the state average and third from the bottom in per pupil spending. "Until we start funding education, we'll be in the same predicament year after year," Desjardins said. School Committee Chairman Matt Sheehan called the decision "a slap in the face" to other groups that have agreed to take a wage freeze. "We're not asking them to give anything back. We're not taking anything away. We're just asking them to push it off a year," said Sheehan. "But they're refusing to play ball and now we'll have to spend the stimulus money on salaries instead of fixing windows or replacing the canopy outside the school." As members walked out of the building, a custodian opening the door and listening to the conversation commented, "Write in your story that we took the wage-freeze for 2010." Only the teachers and a group of eight nurses refused to take a wage freeze for fiscal 2010, which begins July 1. Replies: Good for the Goose!! -- Saadam Hussein, 15:09 05/17/09 Sun Pink Slips -- concerned parent, 16:56 06/03/09 Wed pinks slip politics -- Affected teacher, 19:09 06/03/09 Wed Freeze -- Resident, 22:06 06/03/09 Wed agree -- Dracut Rez a dent, 17:51 06/04/09 Thu Wage Freeze -- Dracut Teacher, 16:27 06/05/09 Fri DID THE DRACUT AIDES (NT) -- GET LAID OFF, 18:25 06/05/09 Fri

Subject: Matt Grimard pleads innocent in alleged assault Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 09:08 05/27/09 Wed (published in, Lowell Sun, 5-27-09) By Lisa Redmond lredmond@lowellsun.com LOWELL -- Sunday wasn't the first time the burly, star quarterback hit his girlfriend, according to court records. But Matthew Grimard, 18, star of Dracut High's Super Bowl champion football team last fall, had told his girlfriend not to bother calling police because "they all know" him, and nothing will happen, according to records at Lowell District Court, where he was arraigned on domestic assault and battery charges yesterday. Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, police say, a jealous Grimard poured beer over his 17-year-old girlfriend's head after he saw her speaking to another male at a party on Ellis Avenue in Lowell. Embarrassed, the girl ran outside, only to have the angry quarterback follow, according to court records. Prosecutors say the 6-foot-four, 235-pound Grimard grabbed his girlfriend's hair and tried to drag her back to the party. When she resisted, police say, he punched her in the jaw outside 51 Ellis Ave. When police showed up at Grimard's Dracut home at 590 Mammoth Road, No. 6, he immediately picked up his cell phone and called his girlfriend, according to court records. "I'm being arrested right now thanks to you," police say Grimard told his girlfriend. Grimard, a senior due to graduate June 5, pleaded innocent to one count of domestic assault and battery. If convicted, he could face up to 2 1/2 years in jail. He spent Sunday and Monday in jail pending his court appearance. Judge Lynn Rooney released Grimard on personal recognizance on the condition that he avoid the consumption of alcohol, submit to random alcohol screenings at the Probation Department and stay away from his girlfriend. If he violates the judge's orders he could be held without bail for 60 days. The prosecution told the court there's a "history of abuse" in the relationship. The victim told police that during the last four months of her nine-month relationship with Grimard, he hit her at least six times, each incident involving alcohol, according to court documents. She did not report past incidents because she was afraid of Grimard, the victim told police. During yesterday's court proceeding, Grimard wore a Dracut High football T-shirt, keeping his head down for much of the time. Prosecutor Marissa Tagliareni sought cash bail of $1,000, but court-appointed defense attorney Larry Colby argued Grimard has no record and that while this was an "unfortunate incident," the victim required no medical treatment. According to Tagliareni, Grimard and his girlfriend were attending a party during which Grimard allegedly became jealous because his girlfriend spoke to another guy. Grimard allegedly became enraged and started yelling at his girlfriend, then poured the beer on her head. Outside, a witness told police Grimard punched the girl in the jaw when she resisted returning to the party with him. Police, who were sent to the house for a report of loud music, noted her jaw appeared red and swollen. The victim, however, refused medical treatment. This fall, Grimard is scheduled to attend St. Anselm College in Manchester and play football for his old coach, Pat Murphy. Murphy was unavailable for comment yesterday. Officials at the college declined comment, saying it is against policy to talk about students. Barbara LeBlanc, a spokeswoman at the college, said officials are aware of the situation and are monitoring it closely. His arrest is not the first adversity the star athlete has faced. Two years ago this August, Grimard's 20-year-old sister, Samantha, died in a car crash along with her boyfriend, Bryan Willet, in Tyngsboro. Her funeral was two days before Grimard made his first start as Dracut's quarterback as a junior. "I just knew she'd want me to play. I knew she'd be looking down hoping for the best," Grimard said at the time. Grimard earned the game ball after rushing for two touchdowns, and throwing for a third score, during a 28-6 season-opening win. "I was worried about his emotional state," then-Dracut coach Murphy said at that time. "But he's a mentally tough kid, a physically tough kid." Grimard was not available for comment at court yesterday, as he was in custody. When a Sun reporter tried to reach a previously working cell phone last night, it was not in service. His home phone was also not in service. Grimard, the Sun Player of the Year last fall, was also the Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year, and was one of only 50 players in the United States named a National Old Spice Red Zone Player of the Year. He led the Dracut Middies to an 11-2 season last fall, including a victory over Marshfield in the Eastern Mass. Division 1A Super Bowl. He was also the Merrimack Valley Conference's Most Valuable Player, finishing a spectacular season with 21 touchdown passes, 2,480 yards passing, 34 touchdowns scored, 206 total points and 1,385 yards rushing. Replies: Is he on steroids? (NT) -- Hulk Hogan, 13:04 05/27/09 Wed This could've been "Roid Rage" to give Matt a needed boost for sports competition (NT) -- Former WWE superstar Chris Benoit, 13:18 05/27/09 Wed Drug Testing -- Dracut Parent, 15:00 05/27/09 Wed Tried to stop him -- Lunatic Fringe, 23:27 05/27/09 Wed Not true -- Dracut Parent, 11:58 05/28/09 Thu Agree with 'THE TRUTH' -- Dracut Kid, 22:58 05/28/09 Thu The Truth -- Dracut Parent, 23:31 05/29/09 Fri wow -- Dracut Kid, 16:07 06/02/09 Tue Culpability -- concerned, 23:29 05/28/09 Thu An "UNDER-AGE" alcohol drinking party @ 51 Ellis? A Dracut cop present @ this party??? (NT) -- Hey Warren Shaw -- What say YOU???, 07:22 05/29/09 Fri concerned -- discusted parent, 23:34 05/29/09 Fri HOW OLD IS THIS GIRL- 15???? (NT) -- WHERE ARE THE PARENTS, 19:45 05/30/09 Sat This kid looks like he needs a good kick in the ars'!!! (NT) -- Steriod Steve, 15:38 05/27/09 Wed I wonder when this girl smartened up??When the beer was poured over her head... -- Beat m'baby, 16:00 05/27/09 Wed This girl just wants attention (NT) -- SMARTEN up you dumb ass girl., 16:44 05/31/09 Sun What specific date is Grimard's court trial scheduled? (NT) -- Missing in this article, 00:23 05/28/09 Thu Pre-trial conference in Lowell District Court on July 16 (NT) -- Judge Judy, 00:11 05/31/09 Sun Many Bay State teens just don't get it, experts say: Hitting is wrong -- Kopy Kitten, 07:57 05/28/09 Thu Grimard and the Dracut Police -- Gunter the Hunter, 09:12 05/28/09 Thu Dracut Police -- Dracut Parent, 12:04 05/28/09 Thu D.H.S -- dracut, 18:10 05/29/09 Fri Matt: "Just Maybe She Provoked Him?" -- eclectacat, 21:23 05/30/09 Sat Yes, your right, its no excuse -- but if she had good parenting, 16:43 05/31/09 Sun He has a big body and small brain! He'll end up either .... -- Townie Tim, 17:34 05/28/09 Thu PROUD PARENT NEEDS TO GET FACTS RIGHT -- THE TRUTH, 21:18 05/28/09 Thu It is my business.... (NT) -- Sarge, 12:22 05/29/09 Fri The Truth (Idiot) -- Parent, 19:43 05/30/09 Sat Why wasn't Grimard charged with underaged drinking or possession of alchohol? (NT) (NT) -- JustWonderin', 22:13 05/29/09 Fri joke -- wilma, 22:46 05/29/09 Fri Any wagers on the verdict? I think it'll be dismissed when girlfriend fails to show up to court (NT) -- Jimmy the Greek, 00:54 05/30/09 Sat Grimard will probably get a court hearing regardless of whether the girlfriend shows up -- You lose, Jimmy the Greek, 00:00 05/31/09 Sun Plenty of steroids available here (NT) -- Long Pond Resident, 14:56 05/30/09 Sat UNER AGE -- DRACUT RESIDENT, 19:51 05/30/09 Sat GET YOUR FINGER OFF CAPS LOCK (NT) -- I hAtE pEoPlE lIkE yOu, 07:36 05/31/09 Sun World's Best Story -- Geeks/Freaks/WannaBe's UNITE, 09:32 06/01/09 Mon O.J.Simpson started this way I think! -- Crazy n' Lov, 00:27 06/02/09 Tue Very Sad -- Person who knows the facts, 22:09 06/02/09 Tue Very Sad -- Just the facts jack, 09:17 06/03/09 Wed your so pathetic -- facts, 14:29 06/03/09 Wed pathetic? -- not, 22:10 06/03/09 Wed Pathetic -- Dracut Res, 11:32 06/04/09 Thu I can see you've gone from sad to a pathetic Dracut Res -- Boring letter, 10:33 06/05/09 Fri Best Advice of your Life -- OH NO, 16:20 06/02/09 Tue Under age -- Dracut Parent, 21:12 06/03/09 Wed He is GUILTY! (NT) -- Judge Judy, 20:23 06/03/09 Wed Judge/The Facts -- Casting Stones, 11:59 06/05/09 Fri Sick of this thread, move on (NT) -- BORED, 12:09 06/05/09 Fri

Subject: 2 nd Annual Spring Big Give Author: Christine Mullen [Edit] Date Posted: 10:55 06/05/09 Fri 2nd Annual Spring Big Give sponsored by the Dracut Rotary & Hair We Are Hair Design ,June 13th & 14th. 91 Mill St. 11-3 both days. We will be collecting food items, clothing,baby gear,and household goods.There will also be face painting, bake & book sales, raffles, Dracut firemen and police will be there along with the Lowell Devil's Devil Dog sat and the Spinners Canalagator on sun. A benefit concert will be held June 13 th at The Dracut Food Pantry 4-9 appearing wil be Mill City Revival, Gentlemen Songsters ,Jawbreak,Poetic ,& Rudy, formerly with Brandy.The concert will be held outside ,so bring your own seats. $5 adults $3 children ,group sale discounts.The Dracut rotary will be cooking burgers,hotdogs & sausages.Rain or shine,all proceeds go to the charities .It will be a good time.

Subject: Nitpicky Town Fathers ticked-off over local access TV cameras broadcasting public hearing Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 07:40 05/28/09 Thu (published in, Lowell Sun, 5-28-09) SELECTMEN ASKING QUESTIONS Camera creates flap at Dracut meeting By Dennis Shaughnessey dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com DRACUT -- Selectmen were surprised to see a cameraman from the cable access station at a special meeting that took place in the Town Hall lunch room on May 18. The meeting lasted less than 15 minutes and was for the purpose of accepting a donation from Walgreens for a traffic study, something the board had twice before rejected. "We're certainly not afraid of cameras and we welcome them," said Selectman James O'Loughlin at this week's regularly scheduled meeting. "But it would be a little bit of a courtesy to notify the board that in fact, a camera would be there." So cramped are the quarters in the lunchroom that, the cameraman, a salaried employee of Dracut Access Television, had to set up his equipment in the hallway. O'Loughlin wanted to know who requested the cameraman and who wanted the abbreviated meeting televised. "Who makes the decision to send somebody out? Does that person get paid to come out? Is there a minimum that they get paid for a 15-minute meeting? I don't think I'm uncovering Watergate here, but I think the ratepayers have a right to know how their money is being spent," O'Loughlin said, adding that he would like Cable Access Director Steven Russo to attend a future meeting to answer those questions. Chairman George Malliaros said he was also surprised when the DATV employee showed up at the meeting. "We were in the lunchroom and while that might be a fine place to have lunch, I don't think it's an appropriate place to have a meeting if the public is going to be watching this on television," Malliaros said. The discussion became heated when Selectman John Zimini, who sits on the Cable Advisory Board, argued that the cable access corporation is a private entity over which the selectmen have no authority. "To my knowledge, that corporation has no reason to answer to the Board of Selectmen," Zimini said. "Personally, I have no problem with a camera showing up at any meeting at any place at any time." Reached by phone, Planning Board member Brian Bond said he asked Russo if somebody could tape the meeting because he was unable to attend. The proposed Walgreens, at the corner of Mammoth Road and Lakeview Avenue, is before the Planning Board and awaiting a decision by the selectmen to accept a donation from the company for a traffic study peer review. "I said, 'Is there any chance you can get somebody down there?' " Bond said. "(Russo) said he'd see what he could do. That was the extent of it." Bond said the Walgreens issue has been bogged down by politics and as a Planning Board member he is required to have as much information as possible. "The selectmen didn't accept (the donation for a traffic study) before the May 4 election. We sent it back and they rejected it again," Bond said. "We have to make a judgment using all the evidence available. We have to be fair to the neighborhood and we have to be fair to the applicant." Replies: Jimmy O' Booby and Joey are anti business but love secret meetings! (NT) -- Dennis, 14:27 05/28/09 Thu TRAVAGLINI: REPORTERS HAVE ‘NO RIGHT’ TO RECORD PUBLIC PENSION MEETING -- Jimmy O's Twin, 21:59 06/03/09 Wed Eliminate the backroom deals? Look no further than the Mass House of Reps -- Dan P, 15:51 06/04/09 Thu Jimmy O has back room deals going back to when his house was auctioned off (NT) -- Herbert, 21:32 06/04/09 Thu

Subject: Town says no $$$ for the Voke Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 07:30 06/02/09 Tue (published in, Lowell Sun, 6-2-09) By Dennis Shaughnessey dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com DRACUT -- The town's $61.5 million budget was significantly trimmed last night when Town Meeting overwhelmingly voted to take $2.5 million away from the Greater Lowell Technical High School, leaving them without funding from the town. Town Manager Dennis Piendak explained that the proposed fiscal 2010 budget is level-funded. The Dracut school district has agreed to cut its $28.6 million budget by $500,000. Piendak was hoping that GLTHS would agree to his recommendation to reduce its assessment to the town by $100,000, but said the vocational school rejected that recommendation. Selectmen offered an amendment to the budget, calling for zero funding to the school. Piendak said the town's municipal accounts are being cut by more than $715,000. "Everyone has shared in these cuts," said Piendak. "They're not palatable. They're not pleasant, but it's something we have to do to get through this as painlessly as possible without layoffs." Municipal groups have been supportive of the proposed budget and most have agreed to wage freezes and no increases in their budgets. With GLTHS Superintendent James Cassin and Business Manager George Garabedian sitting in the visitors section of the high-school auditorium, Piendak told the more than 250 residents in attendance that he supported the amendment to zero fund the school. "Instead of cutting, the voke school has submitted a budget calling for an 8 percent increase from the town in educational funding and transportation costs, and I think something has to be done," Piendak said. In order for the measure to pass legal muster, the three other member communities -- Dunstable, Lowell and Tyngsboro -- would also need to reject the Greater Lowell budget. Pointing out that Greater Lowell has almost $1.5 million in surplus funds, Selectman James O'Loughlin said, "I don't have a problem with the Voke. I have a problem with the Voke's budget. They're sitting on this rainy-day account, and it's pouring. I think it's time they stepped up and used some of that money to offset those increases." Dracut's newest representative to the GLTHS School Committee, Victor Olson, said rejecting the budget sends the wrong message to the school, the sending communities and the students. "The 346 students from Dracut who attend Greater Lowell are our students, too," Olson said. "This is not an us-versus-them situation. This is us, and I don't believe we should be cannibalizing our own students." Cassin and Garabedian left Town Meeting following the voice vote from the audience. "Obviously, I'm disappointed, but we'll just have to see what the other communities decide to do and try to work with the town," Cassin said after the vote. In other business, Town Meeting voted to authorize the selectmen to submit a home-rule petition that would allow retired Dracut police officers to work as special police officers for such things as road details and security functions. Town Meeting also voted to appropriate $1.9 million from the Community Preservation Fund for the construction of recreational fields at Canney Farm.

Subject: DHS football star Matt Grimard arraigned on charges he beat-up his girlfriend Author: Kopy Kitten [Edit] Date Posted: 12:12 05/26/09 Tue (posted on, lowellsun.com , Breaking News, 5-26-09) By Lisa Redmond lredmond@lowellsun.com LOWELL -- Matt Grimard, the quarterback of the Dracut High School Super Bowl champion football team last fall, was arraigned in Lowell District Court Tuesday on a single charge of domestic assault and battery. According to the prosecution, the six-foot-four, 235-pound Grimard, allegedly pulled the hair of his girlfriend and punched her in the jaw outside 51 Ellis Ave., Lowell, about 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Judge Lynn Rooney released Grimard, 17, a Dracut High School senior who lives at 590 Mammoth Road, on personal recognizance on the condition that he avoid the consumption of alcohol, submit to random alcohol screenings at the Probation Department and stay away from his girlfriend. If he violates the judge's orders he could be held without bail for 60 days. According to the prosecution, Grimard and his girlfriend were attending a party during which Grimard allegedly became jealous and poured beer over his girlfriend's head. She ran out of the house and down the street. The prosecution told the court there's a "history of abuse" in the relationship. Grimard, wearing a Dracut High School football T-shirt, was given a court-appointed lawyer. During the court proceeding, he kept his head down. This fall, Grimard is scheduled to attend St. Anselm College in Manchester and play football for his old coach, Pat Murphy. Grimard was the Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year, and was one of only 50 players in the United States named a National Old Spice Red Zone Player of the Year. For more on this story read Wednesday's Sun or click on: http://www.lowellsun.com . Replies: Grimard is truly a great "role model" for all Middie football players to follow (NT) -- Michael Vick & Pacman Jones, 12:34 05/26/09 Tue Stick a fork in him.....he is done (NT) -- Good Bye St. A's, 13:33 05/26/09 Tue O.J. Simpson, Michael Vick, Pacman Jones, Randy Moss, Charles Barkley, etc. (NT) -- If you play great football, it's no big deal, 15:03 05/26/09 Tue maybe if he were black or puerto rican he would get off (NT) -- but hes doomed cuz hes a white boy, 18:46 05/26/09 Tue Hey Einstein, the 5 athletes mentioned on the post you're responding to are ALL Black (NT) -- What did those guys get away with?, 18:53 05/26/09 Tue Copy Cat -- FreeMeFromThePres, 13:52 05/26/09 Tue The young man is a coward! Shame on him!! -- Doris, 13:59 05/26/09 Tue Your just saying that because Joe had his hat on (NT) -- Moe, 17:56 05/26/09 Tue Look within -- HeWhoCastsTheFirstStone, 15:06 05/26/09 Tue Whatever way the verdict goes & it's published in The Sun, it'll also be posted here -- Nostradamus, 17:31 05/26/09 Tue Future -- St A's, 18:21 05/26/09 Tue stop making excuses -- jockbait, 12:02 05/27/09 Wed Don't Play the Tragedy Card -- Biff Tek, 13:00 05/27/09 Wed Biff Tek -- St As, 18:32 05/27/09 Wed WAS HIS ARREST IN THE PAPER (NT) -- I MUST OF MISSED THIS ONE, 18:45 05/26/09 Tue Posted on, LowellSun.com , Breaking News, Tues., 5/26 (NT) -- Wed., 5/27, full Sun article, 18:58 05/26/09 Tue Hes gettin bigger -- just saying.., 21:00 05/26/09 Tue that's the word at DHS -- jockbait, 12:03 05/27/09 Wed Girls & Matt -- Dracut Parent, 12:08 05/28/09 Thu Are You Kidding -- Just Saying....You're an Idiot, 12:52 05/27/09 Wed Minor incident!!!??????? YA try being on the recieving end of this monsters punches!!! (NT) -- Hangum, 17:03 05/28/09 Thu Why dont they put her name out here!!! (NT) -- she'll just go back to him anyway, 16:47 05/31/09 Sun

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