Dracut News

Dracut High senior Nick Staub won the discus at the MIAA Division 2 East Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Sunday at Whitman-Hanson High with a school-record throw of 154 feet, 9 inches.

Gen. Oscar DePriest, statements by American Legion Post Cmdr. Ben French and VFW Cmdr.

As soon as Peter Tsapatsaris parachuted into the Pacific waters offshore of Iwo Jima on Feb.

With graduation comes a new sense of freedom, Lowell Catholic High School Principal Maryellen DeMarco told graduates at the school's 23rd Commencement on Friday.

Meredith Boumil-Flynn of Dracut was one of several women who were front and center Wednesday, May 16, as they were honored at the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women's ninth annual Unsung Heroines of Massachusetts ceremony.

A Dracut couple is facing charges they stole a dog from another couple during an altercation on Methuen Street, and then struck a woman with a car as they fled with the dog.

Three workers at a trucking company located off Route 113 near the Methuen town line were hospitalized on Tuesday after they noticed a strange smell inside a trucking container that was loaded with a hazardous material.

Public safety personnel from two communities responded to the Conway Trucking Co.

Attempts to increase insurance payments and change bereavement days for Water Supply District employees were defeated at the district's annual meeting May 12.

Moms could not blame the Meadow Creek Golf course for luring dads away from home to play golf on Mother's Day this year.

Several trees were being chopped down near 28 Hilltop Road in Dracut at the time.

Jack Kerouac's influence has rubbed off on the city's current crop of novelists, essayists and non-fiction writers.

They work behind the scenes, quietly making a difference in hundreds of people's lives in their communities, rarely calling attention to themselves.

Greater Lowell Technical High School School Committee member Michael Lenzi, who represents the city of Lowell on the committee, has purchased a home in Dracut, but he said he does not have immediate plans to move from the Mill City.

The City Council voted 5-4 Tuesday night to approve Marty Lorrey's motion requesting that City Manager Bernie Lynch locate a room for city councilors to use for meetings with constituents.

Digital Federal Credit Union, which is New England's largest with 350,000 members and $4 billion in assets, christened its newest office at the corner of Bridge and West Sixth streets before about 75 guests Monday morning.

The community's 13-member Superintendent of Schools Screening Committee will have 11 candidates to consider as possible finalists to become Dracut's next schools chief instead of six, School Committee Chairman Mike McNamara announced Monday night.

Attempts to increase insurance payments and change bereavement days for Water Supply District employees were defeated at the district's annual meeting on Saturday morning.

Normally, letter carriers leave mail and packages in your mailbox, but tomorrow, in addition to their regular duties, they will pick up food donations to support local food pantries.

Hundreds of residential and commercial property owners within the Dracut Water Supply District who are not customers may be billed about $65 annually for fire-hydrant service if voters approve the proposed fee at the district's annual meeting Saturday.