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Subject: Can you say, “Covenant”? If so, you’re a few steps ahead of most Louisburg Square proponents


Author:
Nostradamus
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Date Posted: 00:27 10/05/09 Mon
If the Louisburg Square proposal were like a chess match, then saying, “Covenant” would be like saying, “Check Mate”.

If the Louisburg Square issue were like a tennis competition, then saying, “Covenant” would be like saying, “Game, Set, and Match”.

Since the balance of power shifted on the Dracut Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners last May when Ken Cunha bounced long-time incumbent Bob Audet off that panel and it appeared that the purchase of Louisburg Square might be in jeopardy, the supposedly objective and unbiased Lowell Sun has yet to mention the word, “Covenant” in any of its articles surrounding this issue.

Perhaps The Sun could do an investigative report and interview both Finance Committee chairman Gary Marsella, and Housing Authority commissioners’ chairman Ken Martin and ask them what exactly this “Covenant” included in the Louisburg Square’s deed is all about so it can put this issue in proper perspective for its Dracut readership? Are there any questions as to why the Lowell Sun’s circulation numbers are dwindling down the proverbial sewer pipe by leaps and bounds every year?

“Douche Bag” Warren Shaw, who writes a bi-monthly column in the Valley Dispatch which about the last half dozen or so have been favorable to the possible purchase of Louisburg Square, has yet to mention the word, “Covenant” once in his writings – or even on his weekly radio show – regarding this issue. Gee, I wonder why?

Shawn “Pee Wee Herman” Ashe, who’s the producer of Warren’s weekly radio show, has publicly called out Roger L. Daigle on several occasions for having the audacity of posting comments on, “that other website in town” (Heaven forbid!) – out of the process of elimination, I can only assume Shawn was referring to, Dracut After Dark. YET, when Daigle has submitted letters on Louisburg Square for the posting on Shawn’s blog, it might get posted for a couple of hours, perhaps even a day, then Pee Wee squelches and hides Daigle’s commentary down on his blog’s Archive files. Personally, if I were Mr. Daigle, I wouldn’t give Shawn Ashe the time of day even if I were wearing watches on both my wrists.

Is this how both Pee Wee and Douche Bag define, “transparency in government”?

It should be noted here also that Shawn has a Poll on his blog, at least as of this particular posting, citing about 15 people and/or entities as who’s most to blame if Louisburg Square is not purchased by the Town by the end of this calendar year – as you might’ve already guessed, “Deed Covenant” is NOT one of the choices in this particular Poll on Mr. Ashe’s blog. In reality, however, what’s the single-most deciding factor that would change most peoples’ minds 180 degrees in just three years on Louisburg Square?

If Louisburg Square’s approved, no new residents will be immediately added

The following was an anonymous posting submitted to this message board last week, which I feel, offers a lot of common sense and perspective on the Louisburg Square proposal:

What is the net gain of elderlly housing units in Dracut if this building is purchased? To me, it won't remove people that are already there. It won't add anymore people becasue there is no more room. All we are doing is changing ownership of the buidling. How does this add to the elderly housing stock in Dracut? The answer that I am sure that will be given is: "That's not the point, the advantage is that the town will own it." Duh, that makes sense. They will also own the up keep, the snow plowing, and future bed bugs

In other words, even if the Town of Dracut does NOT purchase Louisburg Square by the end of this calendar year, the 38 government-subsidized, elderly residents who are currently living in that building will remain there PER ORDER OF THE DEED’S COVENANT till about the year 2040. In the event that the Town of Dracut DOES APPROVE the purchase of this thing, they certainly ain’t gonna toss the current residents out on the street just to give 38 people who are now on “the waiting list” a place to live. Why aren’t all these “do-gooder” elderly housing advocates seeking out NEW PROPERTY IN DRACUT to purchase and develop for people who are genuinely on “the waiting list”????

Incidentally, if the purchase of Louisburg Square is rejected by the “Powers that Be” in the Town of Dracut, millionaire developer and property owner Gerry Lussier, or whoever he may want to sell it to, will maintain that facility for those government subsidized elderly residents till about the year 2040 PER ORDER OF THAT DEED’S COVENANT.

The Lussier Connection to most of these Louisburg Square proponents

Perhaps the most obvious connection of the bunch is Selectman Jim O’Loughlin when Lussier’s partner at Draco Homes, Doug Dooley, purchased O’Loughlin’s house mortgage just prior to it being foreclosed upon.

Apparently, O’Loughlin’s now-defunct restaurant in Dracut Center, “Jimmy O’s”, went belly-up, and with it, went a lot of his own personal finances. O’Loughlin also stepped off the Board of Selectmen whenever Draco Homes appeared before them publicly, citing a Conflict of Interest each time.

O’Loughlin also writes a weekly nostalgia column for the Lowell Sun, which might explain why The Sun has yet to publish an investigative report on the “mysterious Deed Covenant” associated with Louisburg Square. Can you say, “Payback”?

While we’re on the subject of the Lowell Sun’s interest (or lack thereof) in the Louisburg Square proposal, lets not forget about “Douche Bag” Warren Shaw. As mentioned earlier, Mr. Shaw writes a bi-monthly column for the Valley Dispatch, which has been owned and operated by The Sun for several years now. On Warren’s weekly radio show, he frequently has Lowell Sun editor Jim Campanini as a guest which, over the course of an average year, I would guestimate about 1-2 times a month.

Aren’t the Lowell Sun and WCAP supposed to be rival media entities competing for advertisers and an audience in the Greater Lowell area? Oh well, I guess everything’s fair game in love, war, and politics.

Personally, I noticed Mr. Shaw started having Jim Campanini as a regular guest on his radio show just about the time Warren’s son, Mark got busted by the Feds in Salem N.H., for dealing cocaine, marijuana, and OxyContin almost five years ago. The Lowell Sun, in turn, published the names of the accomplices involved in that Federal drug bust, but CONVENIENTLY left out Mark Shaw’s name in that article. Now that’s what I call, “journalistic integrity” at it’s finest!

As for Selectman Bob Cox, I can only assume that Mr. Lussier generously supported his election campaign with a nice financial contribution. Ditto with Mr. Shaw and Mr. O’Loughlin. Somehow, someway there’s gotta be a reason as to why these politicians are so adamantly supporting Louisburg Square’s purchase when they all know it’s counter-productive to do so since Lussier is contractually committed to maintain this property till about 2040.

As for bloggers Shawn Ashe and Brian Flaherty, these two guys are nothing more than complete imbeciles who’d write or say just about anything to please their man-crush boyfriend, Warren Shaw. If you think I’m wrong on that last statement, when was the last time you can substantiate either Ashe or Flaherty ever disagreeing with Warren on a major issue in Town? I rest my case.
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Subject: How can Jimmy O sit there and vote for Louisburg and be two faced about Canney Farrm?


Author:
TWO FACED JIMMY O"
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Date Posted: 21:18 10/03/09 Sat
Subject: Tentative pact struck on Louisburg Square @ monthly Housing Authority meeting


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 08:04 09/22/09 Tue
(Published in, Lowell Sun, 9-22-09. Nicknames added for emphasis.)

By Dennis Shaughnessey
dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com

DRACUT -- The Dracut Housing Authority Commission voted unanimously last night to "move forward" with a 38-unit, affordable, elderly housing project at 1476 Mammoth Road, but not before hearing a clear definition of the term.

Responding to a motion by Commissioner George "Three Sheets to the Wind" Nangle to move the project forward, Ken Cunha pointed out that the commission voted 3-2 last month to cut off funding to the project architect.

"If you're asking for a vote to continue to try to get more information, I'll support that," Cunha said. "If you're asking for a vote to spend more money, then I'll have to vote no."

Three Sheets to the Wind emphasized that the motion was simply to keep negotiating in the spirit of cooperation until an appraisal of the property, known as Louisburg Square, is completed.

"I just want to show the selectmen and the owner of the property that we're all in favor of this project, and we are committed to keep working on our differences," Nangle said. "I think a strong vote from this committee will go a long way."

Selectmen and the commission have been far apart on the project, which was seen as all but dead before a meeting last week at which both groups, as well as the town's Finance Committee, met to iron out some issues.

The project calls for the town to purchase the building from Draco Homes for $2.65 million, using money from the Community Preservation Fund. The state Department of Housing and Community Development has awarded the town $2.9 million for renovations. The Housing Authority would be responsible to pay the town $70,000 for the property for the next 20 years.

Last week, the commission was able to get the town to agree that the $70,000 lease fee is "flexible," meaning that if the Housing Authority could not meet the obligation in a particular year, the town would cover it.

Cunha said he isn't happy with selectmen's response to concerns about capital improvements to the project, even though Housing Authority consultant Marc Slotnick said that if 10 units are rented at market rate to people with higher incomes, it would help pay for some of the renovations, including new kitchens and bathrooms with walk-in showers for the elderly.

"The purpose of getting that building is so people can pay less rent," said Commission Chairman Ken Martin, adding that there was no commitment on the part of the town to indemnify the Housing Authority.

"The crux of the issue is not the purchase price," Martin said. "It's what are we getting and what are we responsible for?"

Another pressing issue concerns a retaining wall that abuts the property. Two reports have been generated indicating that the wall is a potential hazard, something that Commissioner "Stone Face" Thomas Salem questioned last night.

"To the best of my knowledge, that wall has been there for over 20 years," Stone Face said. "I've never heard of any problems with the wall. There has never been any cracks. What exactly is the problem?"
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Subject: Looking for Antique, Vintage & Collectible Dealers and Crafts People For New Shop


Author:
Cathy
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Date Posted: 08:58 10/03/09 Sat
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Subject: Jimmy O and Malliaros?


Author:
Who's running the selectmans meetings?
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Date Posted: 23:28 10/02/09 Fri
Subject: Daigle shows no sympathy whatsoever for all the “little crybabies” supporting Louisburg Square


Author:
Roger L. Daigle via Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 23:22 10/02/09 Fri
(Roger L. Daigle is a co-host on the popular local access cable TV show, “Inside Dracut Politics”, which airs several times a week on Channel 8.)

CONTINUATION -- 1476 Mammoth Rd -- A/K/A Louisburg Square

I’m sure everyone has heard that old saying “figures don’t lie but lies figure”!!

In politics we see it everyday - politicians who place themselves in a very serious situation, where they end up owing anyone -- Big Time – and then can’t be trusted in their attempts to pay back that favor.

I don’t know about you but to me, there should be no second chance for liars.

To me, the mere fact that so much information was known but held back, by this administration, to be released in dribs and drabs, and released only under pressure, makes this proposal, the project of a big lie, is inexcusable, and definitely should not be given any further consideration. Those responsible should be held accountable.

For several years (since ’86 - ’87), I’ve been saying that this administration does not believe in open government and where there is no willingness in keeping those who pay the freight, informed, with the truth, then there can be no integrity!!!

Consider the first, in the order in which they happened, and as I remember it:

1. This project was started by four individuals without apparent authority or consent of their respective boards. No records were kept of these proceedings.

2. Two years, if that information given to us is true, passed before anyone even heard of it.

3. June 5, 2006 Town Meeting, article 20 was passed with the only information given was that the project would be paid for with CPA funds and would be used for elderly housing. Three years later, from figures provided by the administration, approximately $631,000. From additional taxes would be necessary to supplement the CPA funds.

4. The then minority members of the DHA weren’t advised and didn’t find out anything about this project till that June 5th town meeting. Ask yourself WHY!! When did the other members of both boards know, but said nothing???

5. Then, those who were taught the difference between right and wrong started asking the hard questions and got their answers a little at a time, no more, no less.

6. Those on the DHA worked hard, under trying circumstances and managed to get $2.9 million from the State, based on what little knowledge they had, at their disposal, at the time. Does this action give you the impression that they weren’t interested???

7. This whole, entire, proposal was passed off as 38 more units to be available for elderly housing!!

8. Then the big bomb - a “Covenant” had been filed at the Registry of Deeds in July of 1990, already made these 38 units “Elderly Housing” for the next 50 years. Did they, the administration, know about this Covenant? Let’s just say it was no surprise to them when it came out. Ask yourselves why they didn’t make this information available right from the start???!!!

9. Now the infamous “Appraisal’’, obtained in 2005. Through the past four years, we were all told, that this property was appraised at $2.4 million. Now, we were recently advised, this $2.4 million was based on the income value not the fair market value. BUT, though not unusual considering everything so far, we’re again just now told that this same appraisal also included a fair market value of $2.85 mil. Has anyone ever seen this mysterious appraisal, other than maybe the prime movers???

In the interim when others were concerned, that this mysterious appraisal was already more than 4 ½ years old started asking for a more current one (precedent had already been established on the Kazanjian - Canney Farm property -- at the behest of the prime movers) we were then told the new appraisal would be based on what the property would be worth after the $2.7 million allotted by the State, for repairs, after those repairs were completed???!!!

10. Questions to be asked by everyone interested in this bailout. Piendek saying: “ This is not my project, it’s Dirocco’s and Cox’.

As Town Manager who, in my opinion, knew of the Covenant; also had to know this project could not be repaid just with CPA funds; who, in my opinion, again, participated in the appraisal sham; “The seller will not sell for less than the $2.7 mil requested” & ”Didn’t want to sell to start off with” know that the CPA law didn’t allow CPA funds to be used to buy anything for more than the appraisal figure; would even consider buying a piece of property where the cost of repairs exceeded the selling price; allow their potential partners, in this proposal to be kept in the dark, till forced to, but still with releasing as little information as possible each time, till push came to shove and only after the pundits all but considered this project dead. Why then, as the Town Manager, would he allow this to go as far as it has???

Now if all these same people were really interested in providing additional housing (over and above what is already elderly housing) for those on the supposed “waiting list”, were to start concentrating on planning “real” additional housing and being out front with all the details, they might be surprised at the outcome!!

Live through it or die from it!!

Remember a successful man is one who can lay a foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Wasting time bickering isn’t going to get affordable housing for those you say you care so deeply about!!
Subject: Adulterer, child molester TV show host caught up in blackmail scheme


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 10:35 10/02/09 Fri
(posted on, Yahoo.com , 10-2-09)

David Letterman

David Letterman

Letterman admits having sex with female employees

By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK – A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees.

Letterman said that "this whole thing has been quite scary." But he mixed in jokes while outlining what had happened to him, seeming to confuse a laughing audience at Thursday's taping about whether the story was true.

The network said the person who was arrested works on the true-crime show "48 Hours" and has been suspended. A person with knowledge of the investigation said the suspect is Robert J. Halderman. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because authorities have not released the suspect's name.

A "48 Hours" producer named Joe Halderman was part of a team nominated for an Emmy for outstanding continuing coverage of a news story in a news magazine in 2008. Two numbers listed for Halderman were disconnected, and a message left at a third number was not immediately returned Thursday.

Letterman's "Late Show" audience was the first to hear the story, which came as a shock since the 62-year-old Letterman had married longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko in March. The couple began dating in 1986 and have a son, Harry, born in November 2003. Fatherhood and his heart surgery in 2000 had seemed to mellow Letterman, who took over as the most popular late-night comedy host this summer after NBC replaced Jay Leno with Conan O'Brien on the "Tonight" show.

Letterman sat behind his desk to outline the scheme after a monologue that targeted some frequent foils like Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney.

Three weeks ago, Letterman said, he got in his car early in the morning and found a package with a letter saying, "I know that you do some terrible, terrible things and that I can prove that you do some terrible things." He acknowledged the letter contained proof.

He said it was terrifying "because there's something insidious about (it). Is he standing down there? Is he hiding under the car? Am I going to get a tap on the shoulder?"

Letterman said he called his lawyer to set up a meeting with the man, who threatened to write a screenplay and a book about Letterman unless he was given money. There were two subsequent meetings, with the man given a phony $2 million check at the last one. Letterman joked it was like the giant ceremonial check given to winners of golf tournaments.
He told the audience that he had to testify before a grand jury on Thursday.

"I was worried for myself, I was worried for my family," he said. "I felt menaced by this, and I had to tell them all of the creepy things that I had done."

He said "the creepy stuff was that I have had sex with women who work for me on this show. My response to that is yes, I have. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Yes, it would, especially for the women."

Whether they wanted to make the relationships public was up to them, he said.

"It's been a very bizarre experience," he said. "I felt like I needed to protect these people. I need to protect my family. I need to protect myself. Hope to protect my job."
CBS said in a statement that "we believe his comments speak for themselves."

Perhaps as a defense mechanism, Letterman sprinkled his remarks with jokes: "I know what you're saying," he said. "I'll be darned, Dave had sex."

He said he wouldn't talk further about it, and recited a Top Ten list. But it wasn't far from his mind. During banter with actor guest Woody Harrelson, Letterman said, "I've got my own problems."

It was not immediately clear when the relationships took place or how long they lasted. Letterman's "Late Show" has been on the air since 1993. Before that, "Late Night with David Letterman" aired on NBC from 1982 to 1993.

Letterman won't be taping a show Friday. Friday night's show was taped Thursday.

Alicia Maxey Greene, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, declined to comment.

It's the second set of embarrassing headlines for Letterman in four months. In June, he apologized to Palin for making a crude joke about the former Republican vice presidential candidate's 14-year-old daughter. Although there was a small "fire Letterman" demonstration outside of his studio later, CBS stood by its late-night star.

Last fall Letterman sharply denounced Palin's running mate, John McCain, for abruptly canceling a "Late Show" appearance. Weeks of withering jokes by Letterman eventually forced McCain to come on the show and beg for forgiveness.

Letterman was also the victim of a 2005 plot by a former painter on his Montana ranch to kidnap his nanny and son for a $5 million ransom. The former painter, Kelly A. Frank, briefly escaped from prison in 2007 before being recaptured.

Another alleged extortion scandal surrounding a public figure, Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino, similarly forced him this summer to acknowledge an affair.

AP Television Writer Lynn Elber in Los Angeles and Associated Press Writer Tom McElroy in New York contributed to this report.
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Subject: TEN FOR '10: WINNING WASHINGTON BY EMPOWERING AMERICANS


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 21:56 10/02/09 Fri
(posted on, LauraIngraham.com)

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Subject: “Douche Bag” Warren Shaw refuses to allow lady fair shake on radio show


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 22:49 09/28/09 Mon
(Published in, Lowell Sun, The Column, 9-27-09. Nickname inserted for added emphasis.)

Cowboy Warren

”Douche Bag” Warren Shaw

Voting-system debate takes heated turn

AN IMPLICATION on the radio “debate” about the proposed Lowell City Charter change to a voting system similar to the one that has worked in Cambridge for 70 years may have given new impetus to supporters of the plan to switch to “proportional representation.”

Former Lowell and Cambridge City Manager James Sullivan, who opposes the charter change, said it works in Cambridge because they are more “philosophical.”

Sullivan made a similar remark several weeks ago, also on the WCAP Saturday morning show, and repeated it last Saturday during the “debate” with Victoria Fahlberg, the leader of the campaign to end the city’s winner-take-all election system.

When Fahlberg tried to challenge Sullivan’s comments, asking if he felt Lowell people were not able to comprehend the plan as well as Cambridge voters, host “Douche Bag” Warren Shaw, who was supposed to be an impartial moderator, shut her off.

“We are not going to go there,” the moderator ruled.

That was on the air, live, but reportedly the remarks got pretty nasty off-air during breaks.

Fahlberg, however, appeared to have held her own during the on-air portion of the program, considering she was debating two people.
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Subject: c-team cheerleaders


Author:
jd
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Date Posted: 09:42 10/02/09 Fri
good luck c-team cheerleaders
Subject: School officials remain hush-hush over Golec/surveillance camera controversy


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 07:56 10/01/09 Thu
(published in, Lowell Sun, 10-1-09)

Golec's future at Dracut High still up in the air

By Erin Smith
esmith@lowellsun.com

DRACUT -- Will an embattled Dracut High School vice principal ever return to school? Not even the workers who answer the phone at the high school seem to know.

Vice Principal Hank Golec was not at work at the high school yesterday, and a school official who answered the phone did not know when he would return.

Last month, school officials opened an internal investigation into allegations that Golec is responsible for a breach in the school's security system and misused surveillance equipment at the high school.

At the start of the investigation, school officials believed the security tampering had rendered the $100,000 surveillance equipment inoperable, but Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin told the School Committee at Monday's committee meeting that the equipment had not been damaged, according to School Committee Chairman Matthew Sheehan.

Mullin is looking into reports that Golec allegedly used a school-owned surveillance camera to secretly tape football Head Coach Jeff Moore leading a summer weightlifting session, then sent the recording to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, arguing that the session was in violation of MIAA rules.

It turns out the session was not illegal by MIAA standards because the weightlifting practice was open to all students, not just the football team.

Sheehan and Mullin both referred The Sun to the committee's attorney, Ed Morris, who is handling the matter.

Morris is currently in talks with Golec's attorney. Sheehan declined to characterize those talks or say when or if Golec would return to his position at the high school.

Mullin did not return a call for comment about the ongoing talks with Golec's lawyer or how long Golec has been absent from the high school. Mullin's assistant referred The Sun to Morris.

Morris said he didn't know how long Golec had been absent from his job.

Golec, who has spent 34 years working for the Dracut schools as a teacher, varsity baseball coach and administrator, did not return a phone message left at his home.
Subject: Louisburg Square proposal currently appears “dead in the water”


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 07:20 09/09/09 Wed
(published in, Lowell Sun, 9-9-09)

Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo, a.k.a. Selectman Bob Cox

By Dennis Shaughnessey
dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com

DRACUT -- The sound of defeat was in his voice.

Selectman Bob Cox, who along with colleague Joe DiRocco has championed an affordable senior-housing plan at 1476 Mammoth Road, known as Louisburg Square, conceded recently that the plan is all but dead.

"The Housing Authority has made it pretty clear, just by the roadblocks they've been setting up, that they want to kill this," Cox said, referring to the 38-unit apartment building that the town is positioned to buy from owners Gerry Lussier and Doug Dooley for $2.65 million. "They're obviously dragging their feet long enough that they can kill it without taking an official vote. I hope the voters are paying attention."

Lussier and Dooley, who own Draco Homes, have sent a letter to selectmen saying they will not extend the Dec. 31 deadline for the purchase-and-sale agreement and they will not lower the asking price for the property.

The property was appraised at $2.4 million in 2005, a year before Town Meeting voted to purchase the building using funds from the Community Preservation Act. The initial plan called for the Dracut Housing Authority to buy the building from the town for $1.4 million, with payments of $70,000 for the next 20 years. Improvements to the property, which include a new elevator, new kitchens and bathrooms, a new retaining wall and other items, would be paid for with $2.9 million in grant money from the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Housing Authority Commissioners Ken Martin and Ken Cunha have expressed concern that renovations could total more than $3 million. Cunha has called for a new appraisal that would not include capital improvements to the property. The Housing Authority has also formed a subcommittee consisting of two members from its board, the selectmen and Finance Committee, as well as Town Manager Dennis Piendak and James A. Hall, the town's legal counsel, to work toward a resolution to the issue.

"We have questions that have yet to be answered," said Cunha. "Hopefully, this subcommittee can work together cooperatively to come up with those answers."

But so far, Cunha said, Piendak, Hall and the selectmen have been less than cooperative.

"We tried to set up a meeting and have yet to hear back from anybody," Cunha said, adding that without considering the capital improvements the appraisal would come in less than the amount the town agreed to pay. "You cannot do that under the rules of the CPA, so that would tell me that, ‘yes’, it's a dead deal. I'm just one member, but I would say that right now, it's not in the best interest of the Dracut Housing Authority to go forward with this project."

Phil Hailer, a spokesman for the state Department of Housing and Community Development, said monetary awards are conditional upon certain expectations and the town could lose the money if the project does not move forward in a reasonable time frame.

"If the town is unable to secure a municipal bond and if they were unable to meet the conditions of the award, that would force the issue and the money would no longer be available," Hailer said.

"I just don't see how you can turn your back on $2.9 million," said DiRocco. "We pushed hard for this for four years and now, at the last minute, (the Housing Authority) is doing everything they can to make it look like a bad project."

Cox and DiRocco expected to bring up the issue at last night's selectmen's meeting, perhaps calling for the Housing Authority and Finance Committee to appear before them in the near future. Cox said a tremendous amount of hard work has gone into the project and he cannot understand the Housing Authority's reluctance to see it through.

"They've been handed this project on a silver platter. The state has offered to pay almost $3 million in renovations, and you have people on that board who are turning their noses up at it," Cox said. "It's not right and I'm not going to let the voters forget it."
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Subject: "Dougie" Willett, 89, long time Dracut selectman, died yesterday (Wed.) afternoon


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
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Date Posted: 08:01 09/24/09 Thu
(published in, Lowell Sun, Obituaries, 9-24-09)

Douglas G. 'Dougie' Willett
former Town of Dracut Selectman,
active in the community; 89

DRACUT -- Douglas G. "Dougie" Willett, 89, a lifelong resident of the Town of Dracut, died Wednesday afternoon, September 23, 2009, at his home surrounded by his family, following a long and courageous battle with congestive heart failure.

He was the beloved husband for 68 years of Barbara A. (Dean) Willett of Dracut.

Born in Dracut on August 22, 1920, he was a son of the late George and Marietta (Patterson) Willett. He received his education in the Dracut school system.

In his early years, Mr. Willett worked in the Boston Ship Yard during World War II, and later at the Dracut Mills.
He went on to work for HP Hood and Sons for over 30 years.

He then worked as a truck driver for Gagnon Trucking for four years, and most recently and until the time of his retirement in 2007, he was employed by Greater Lowell Technical High School for 27 years.

Active in the Dracut community, Mr. Willett served the Town of Dracut for 30 years as a 10-term Selectman, as well as working as a part-time Police Officer for the Town. He was also a member of the Men's Club of Keith Academy, as well as a member of the Men's Club at Ste. Therese Church in Dracut.

He was a longtime active volunteer at the Boys Club in Lowell, and was a mentor and longtime volunteer of the Special Olympics, as well as with the Special Needs students at Greater Lowell Technical High School where he was cherished by the students and will be fondly
remembered for the parties and activities he sponsored.

In his free time, Doug enjoyed being in his garden, and spending time in the company of his family, and he will be remembered for the use of his favorite quote "I'll be back."

He was a communicant of the parish of St. Marguerite D'Youville at Ste. Therese Church in Dracut.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Sandra J. Willett-Chaput of Dracut; two sons, Douglas G. Willett Jr. and his wife, Barbara Rawlsky-Willett of Rumney, NH, and Dean T. Willett and his wife, Theresa of Lebanon, MO; nine grandchildren, Stephen Chaput and his wife, Beth of Dracut, Scot Chaput and his wife, Cheryl of Nashua, NH, Renee Loughran and her husband, Shawn of Hudson, NH, Rudy Chaput and his wife, Kim, also of Hudson, NH, Melaina Chaput of Tewksbury, Jessica Willett of New Castle, England, Meredith Willett of Virginia Beach, VA, Victoria Sheldon and her husband, Brian of Shawnee, KS, and Laurie Dickinson and her husband, Steve of Lebanon, MO; 13 great-grandchildren, Nicholas, Sidney, Luke, Audrey, Beau, Shannon, Erin, Derek, Jocelyn, Taylor, Sarah, Rachel, and Brooke; one brother, Raymond C. Willett of Lowell; and many nieces and nephews.

He was also the brother of the late Vera Roscoe, and Kenneth Willett.

WILLETT -- Friends may call at DRACUT FUNERAL HOME, 2159 Lakeview Avenue, DRACUT, on Friday from 4 until 8 PM. His Funeral will be held from the funeral home on Saturday at 10 A.M. followed by his Funeral Mass celebrated at 11 A.M. in Ste. Therese Church, Dracut. Interment in Oakland Cemetery, Dracut.

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made in his name to the Special Olympics 100 Conifer Hill Drive Suite 301 Danvers, MA 01923-1167. For online condolences or for directions please visit www.dracutfuneralhome.com
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Subject: Bone Marrow Drive - Sept. 25th


Author:
Someone's Mom
[Edit]
Date Posted: 19:20 09/19/09 Sat
On Friday, September 25the from 5pm to 9pm there will be a Bone Marrow Drive at the Beaver Brook Mills Community room to benefit Lexi Gorman. Lexi is a beautiful four year old girl who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Sher is currently undergoing chemotherapy at Childrens' Hospital in Boston but her parents were told that she needs a bone marrow transplant by November.

It only takes a blood test to be added to the bone marrow donor registry. It costs nothing but donations are greatly appreciated. Lexi and her family are Dracut residents and it would be awesome to see this town rally around this sweet little girl and help save her life.

This is only about Lexi.....not about any other members of her family....please don't even go there. Dracut has rallied for many worthy causes in the past, this time should be no different. Please Dracut, do the right thing and come to the bone marrow drive on September 25. Who knows you may also save other lives in addition to Lexi's. Thank you for reading this and please spread the word.
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Subject: IS LENNY P> GOING TO SUPPORT TEDDY K THIS YEAR?


Author:
KEN
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Date Posted: 22:14 09/27/09 Sun
Subject: Is Mullin planning to prohibit students from watching Obama this Tuesday?


Author:
Nostradamus
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Date Posted: 23:02 09/04/09 Fri
Spencer Mullin

School Superintendent Spencer Mullin

# # # # # # # # # # # # # # #

Barack Obama

President Barack Obama

A very reliable source of mine has informed me that Superintendent of Schools Spencer Mullin WILL NOT allow our Dracut students to watch President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech to all American students, grades K-12, this Tuesday (9-8-09).

Although I staunchly disagree and oppose most of the things he’s said and done since his inauguration last January, I still respect Barack Obama as the President of the United States and I think Superintendent Mullin should do likewise.

Many of Obama’s critics are referring to this particular ploy as “indoctrinization”, or training and grooming our youngsters into a certain political philosophy such as Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. Personally, I would hardly put this speech by Obama to our young American elementary and high school students on the same plateau as talking about evolution, sex education, or religion in the classroom.

Bottom Line: It’s really up to all of us to teach and talk with our kids afterwards to ask them what they specifically learned from President Obama’s speech and how will Americans actually benefit on what he proposed. For Mullin to blatantly censor this speech from all Dracut classrooms, is just plain stupid and, if anything, will probably just make students and their parents even more sympathetic to President Obama’s viewpoints.

If this is indeed what you’re planning to do with the Dracut students this Tuesday morning, Superintendent Mullin, I would respectfully ask that you reconsider your decision and allow our youngsters the opportunity to hear what their President has to say to them.
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Subject: Hank Golec's wife, Gail, "rubbing elbows" with Selectman Zimini at a recent social event


Author:
P.O.W. (Pal of Warren's)
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Date Posted: 11:53 09/16/09 Wed
Zimini & Gail Malliaros Golec

We'll be more than happy to run a photo of Hank Golec himself just as soon as one becomes available.
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Subject: Please go to Fox 25 News & vote for Middies 10/2 game


Author:
Posted today on DAD's Facebook Wall
[Edit]
Date Posted: 15:53 09/23/09 Wed
we need to get as many votes for Fox 25 news to come to the Middies football game on Friday, 10/2 versus Billerica.

please get all fans to go to Fox 25 high school Friday football and cast as many votes as possible. they are working hard this year.
Subject: 1476 Mammoth Road soap opera just keeps on going & going & goi...


Author:
Roger L. Daigle via Duplicate Dawg
[Edit]
Date Posted: 23:06 09/22/09 Tue
Louisburg Squ

Louisburg Square

Anyone who has kept abreast on the goings on with the progress of this project had to be amused watching their last get together.

For months its been a two ring circus, the prime movers and the orator on the Town side throwing accusation after accusation to those members of the Dracut Housing Authority who have been insisting on getting answers to their questions and not backing down (after all, if this project were to flop who would be the scapegoats ??? Guess who?).

However it does seem that every get together we do find out something new. This time the now famous (and only) appraisal was not based on the current fair market value of the involved building but rather based on its income producing value!!?? (Oh what a tangle web we weave when we plan to deceive).

Selectman Zimini made the statement that he would not agree to paying one cent more than a current value appraisal figure. Considering the games being played with their suggested types of appraisals, how can anyone be guaranteed or feel any confidence with anything presented now (especially if the presenter is the same in every case). Has anyone asked to be provided with a copy of this first appraisal, in light of the fact that it, we’re told, also contains another supposed figure of $2.8M???

One blogger actually called this last meeting “Civil; Productive and Educational”.

Civil: the bullies seeing that their course of action, so far, wasn’t working decided to become more conciliatory!! It’s amazing that they are just now finding out that they need the DHA a lot more than the DHA needs them (people are never so trivial as when they take themselves so very seriously).

Productive: one question that has yet to be resolved but wasn’t part of the discussion – how this project was to be repaid, using CPA funds. At the Finance Committee meeting with the Town Manager, a financial analysis was distributed showing, that over 20 years, a shortfall in the CPA fund would equal somewhere in the area of $631,000!!! No one seems to want to address this very important point. Unless they can prove otherwise this shortfall will have to be repaid through more taxes by our already overburdened taxpayer!!!

The blogger brings out a statement made by Mr. Slotnick that with mixed financing, using some market rate rentals (section eight housing is using more tax money to cover costs) and spreading out the cost of renewing kitchen and bathrooms over ten years, would still require capital outlay money. Where would this money come from? Increasing rentals? Wouldn’t this, in essence, defeat the affordable aspect of this proposal??

Educational: it was, in many different ways. However the underlying aspects were still there. Most people can bear adversity but if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. In politics, it seems, that’s the name of the game. Posturing, hypocrisy and the worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self All sins are easy after that!!

To the one prime mover who made the statement “I won’t let the voters of Dracut forget” - well I’m sure that the voters, when looking to elect someone will look for three qualities: Integrity, Intelligence and Energy in a candidate. But if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. How do you think you’ll fare when you come up for reelection??

I’ve made the following statement before but I think its worth repeating. ‘Transparency is the mother of integrity”. The a---- who don’t believe that, are called politicians and puppets. “Inflammatory and arrogant”, the orator should look at himself in the mirror and possibly even consider removing himself from these proceedings.

One should never think about rights without thinking of responsibilities.

RLD
Subject: Former Middies star QB’s assault trial date set for Oct. 20


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
[Edit]
Date Posted: 16:46 09/02/09 Wed
(published in, Lowell Sun, Breaking News, 9-2-09)

Matt Grimard

Trial date set for grid-iron star Grimard

By Lisa Redmond
lredmond@lowellsun.com

LOWELL -- Former Dracut High School football star Matthew Grimard withdrew his acceptance to Saint Anselm College this fall and now his freedom hangs in the balance as he has an October trial date on charges that he tried to drag his girlfriend by the hair back to a party last spring and when she resisted he punched her in the jaw.

At a status hearing Wednesday in Lowell District Court, the judge scheduled a trial date of Oct. 20.

At Grimard's arraignment last May, shortly after the alleged May 24 assault, Grimard, 18, pleaded innocent to one count of domestic assault and battery. His court-appointed defense attorney Larry Colby described this as an "unfortunate incident,'' but noted Grimard has no record and the victim required no medical treatment.

If convicted, Grimard could face up to 2 1/2 years in jail.

For more on this story see Thursday's Sun or visit http://www.lowellsun.com .
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Subject: IS TEDDY K GOING TO RUN IN 2010?


Author:
I THINK SO
[Edit]
Date Posted: 23:40 09/20/09 Sun
Subject: Wicked funny, pee-in-your-pants, hysterical joke of the week


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
[Edit]
Date Posted: 14:35 09/20/09 Sun
Kanye West

Kanye West

Popular foul-mouthed rapper Kanye West attended Patrick Swayze’s funeral a couple days ago and, for some stupid reason, started yelling and screaming at Swayze’s corpse lying in the casket.

“Hey man, what the f*** is your problem? Michael Jackson had a much better and bigger funeral than what you’ve got here right now.”

When asked for a comment over this rather embarrassing incident, President Barack Obama would only shake his head and say, “Kanye West is just a jackass.”
Subject: Can even the Feds resolve stolen drugs case if statute of limitations already expired?


Author:
Duplicate Dawg
[Edit]
Date Posted: 07:25 09/10/09 Thu
(published in, Lowell Sun, 9-10-09)

Chartrand

Deputy Chief David Chartrand

Awaiting legal help from feds

By Dennis Shaughnessey
dshaughnessey@lowellsun.com

DRACUT -- It's been six years and five months since about $80,000 worth of marijuana went missing from a locked evidence storage trailer behind the old Dracut police station on Lakeview Avenue.

Officials investigating the disappearance of those drugs have asked for a legal opinion concerning the statute of limitations, which expired five months ago.

In a letter to Dracut Police Chief Kevin Richardson, Alfred Donovan, control chief for the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council's Internal Affairs Unit, who is in charge of the investigation, said representatives from his team have met with a member of the Middlesex County District Attorney's Criminal Investigative Unit and are waiting for a response from a "federal agency" which has agreed to assist with the investigation later this month.

It is unclear to which federal agency Donovan is referring. Donovan, the Tewksbury police chief, did not return phone calls from The Sun.

Richardson declined comment, saying only that Donovan is leading the investigation and he would not feel comfortable disclosing any information that was not in the letter. He said, "As far as the statute of limitations is concerned, I can only repeat what (Donovan) has written and that is, the Middlesex D.A. is looking into it."

Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone could not be reached for comment.

Selectmen Chairman George Malliaros, an attorney, said that with the exception of murder, the statute of limitations for the prosecution of most other crimes is six years.

"There is case law, however, to support the position that if the target of the investigation has lived outside of the commonwealth for any of those six years, then the time he was away would be added on to those six years,"

Malliaros said. "Otherwise, what else is there to say? Six years is six years. That date has come and gone."

Donovan's letter indicates that investigators are following up on new information.

"We will be continuing to investigate the names and phone numbers that were obtained during the last month of interviews and interrogations," writes Donovan.

"I firmly believe that the internal investigation portion of this case will be concluded by that time and a full report will be provided to you before that time."

In October 2008, after a years-long probe by the Middlesex District Attorney's office turned up nothing, Richardson launched a "full-scale administrative internal investigation," and enlisted the help of NEMLAC, which conducted lie-detector tests as part of their probe.

In June, Donovan reported that his team had interviewed 25 Dracut police officers, as well as several suspected drug dealers who were active in 2003, about the time the evidence was stolen. Donovan also said that nine police officers had submitted to polygraph tests and only one was shown to be "deceptive" in some responses.
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