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18 min ago | Lowell Sun

Vandals should accept responsibility

What does it say about American society and the lessons children are being taught that to expend some pent-up anger, a teenager decides to desecrate a cemetery and topple 87 headstones? Later, seeing photographs in The Sun of the destruction he wrought, the teen allegedly felt remorse and admitted his involvement to police.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Lowell Sun

Dracut man gets 30 months in prison for bilking Spinners' owner

Lowell Spinners owner Drew Weber was barely able to contain his anger as he told a federal judge on Thursday that former Lowell businessman Kurt Sanborn stole nearly $300,000 from his company -- putting him in financial peril -- at a time when he was consumed by his wife's battle with cancer.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Lowell Sun

Dracut teacher wins top national award, $25G

Lakeview Junior High School teacher Rebecca Duda joined an elite club on Wednesday morning, receiving the Milken Educator Award in a surprise ceremony Wednesday morning.

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GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

It's official: $858K home sells for $10K and new owner has 45 days to move it

The house at 156 Pine St. might soon become 136 Pine St. But the numbers aren't switching - the house will be moving.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Lowell Sun

Police scuffle just the latest controversy to dog Dracut

The chairman of the Board of Selectmen is questioning why police union officials waited more than a month to accuse Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand of being intoxicated when he responded to a late-September domestic incident while off duty.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Lowell Sun

Dracut officer: I nearly fired on deputy

In a new report, a patrolman says he came close to shooting off-duty Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand after both responded to a late-September domestic incident.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Lowell Sun

UML's Cardboard City focuses on homeless issue

Temperatures flirted with the freezing mark as students from UMass Lowell braced themselves for a long night outside.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Lowell Sun

Dracut deputy chief focus of inquiry

Police Chief Kevin Richardson said Tuesday he has opened a preliminary inquiry into whether the town's off-duty deputy chief had been drinking when he showed up to a 911 call for a man with a shotgun, wound up almost getting shot by his own officers and then tried to cover up his involvement in the late night September incident.

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Lowell Sun

Trouville has eyes for Dracut supt. post

Linda Trouville wants to be Dracut's next school superintendent. The 40-year veteran educator made a play for the head of Dracut schools last night, offering to serve as interim superintendent without a pay raise while School Committee members search for a permanent replacement for Superintendent of Schools W. Spencer Mullin.

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Mon Nov 09, 2009

Lowell Sun

Two thumbs down

Dracut residents have a lot of questions regarding the lengthy absence of Dracut High School vice principal Hank Golec.

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Sat Nov 07, 2009

Lowell Sun

Wilmington in hunt for new housing executive

The Housing Authority may have a new leader at its helm as early as next month. The agency launched a search for a new executive director after Theresa Georgopoulos resigned from the post to take another job.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Lowell Sun

Board sets salary range for new superintendent

Continuing with a brisk pace in its hunt for a new superintendent, the School Committee last night laid most of the groundwork for the search process.

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

Lowell Sun

A walk down Nostalgia Lane -- er, University Ave.

It's a little over one-tenth of a mile on University Avenue in Lowell from the corner of Riverside Street to White Street.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

Lowell Sun

Thank you for making a difference

Thanks to all who contributed to the "Make a Difference Day Food Drive" sponsored by the Dracut Food Pantry.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

Lowell Sun

Dracut seeks new rules for PTO funds

In the wake of a PTO mom's embezzlement of nearly $13,000 from the Parker Avenue School's fundraising coffers, town officials want the volunteer parent organizations to run more like businesses, with an independent accountant double-checking the books.

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Lowell Sun

Reasons why Lowell should support 'choice voting'

On Saturday, Shawn Ashe of Dracut wrote a letter opposing Question 1 for choice voting in Lowell.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Lowell Sun

Wrongful death lawsuit opening

There is nearly $700,000 of life-insurance money at stake. But more importantly for the family of the late Marc Beauregard, of Dracut, they want to prevent Steven Knight, their son's former lover and a suspect in Beauregard's murder, from getting his hands on it.

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Lowell Sun

Kazanjian project's sewer tie-in questioned

A new commercial building in Chelmsford built by Kazanjian Enterprises Inc., a Lowell firm owned by City Councilor Alan Kazanjian, was connected to Lowell's sewer system five months after City Engineer Lisa DeMeo issued an order denying the connection, The Sun has learned.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Andover Townsman

Town Talk: 'Fired' football coach to confront school leaders, and other shorter items of interest

Ex-head football and baseball coach at Andover High School Ken Maglio said he finally gets to meet with the School Committee to find out why he was not rehired just six weeks before this year's football season started.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

Lowell Sun

Lowell teen charged in Dracut armed robbery

Police arrested a 17-yea-old Lowell man who fueled up at the Dracut Shell Station on Lakeview Avenue who brandished a gun and took off without paying, Eric M. Silva of 27 Foch St., was arrested near his house in Lowell and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and armed robbery.

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