Dracut News

Housing Authority chiefs would be banned from holding two director jobs under legislation recently filed by Methuen state Rep.

A benefit will be held today to raise money to help the family of local bodybuilder Ryan Matthews with his funeral expenses.

In just a few days, floral delivery vans will be on the roads in great numbers, bound for homes and workplaces.

A former program coordinator at the Chelmsford Senior Center is facing larceny charges after police allege she admitted to stealing more than $700 from various cash boxes there.

Police say a young man emerged from a van near the Hannaford Supermarket in Dracut on Thursday afternoon and fired at least five gunshots at a man nearby, though all the shots missed their intended victim.

A benefit will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. at Brothers Sports Bar and Grille on Broadway Road to raise money to help the family of Ryan Matthews with his funeral expenses.

A top U.S. senator has asked federal housing officials to make a deeper probe into a troubled Massachusetts housing authority, where top managers are allowed to live in subsidized housing while hundreds of low-income families languish on waiting lists.

Dracut, Mass., brothers Paul Brown and Raymond Brown, both 45, who ran an excavation company based in the town were convicted by a federal jury of tax evasion, the Boston Business Journal reports.

Dracut brothers, former owners of an excavation business, were convicted by a federal jury on Monday of attempting to hide nearly $2 million in income without paying taxes.

A faith-formation and evangelization campaign by Renew International is designed to help Catholics answer a very important question: "Why Catholic?" The campaign aims to answer that and other important life's questions by offering a faith-filled point of view.

Tension between teachers and administrators over contract negotiations extended over 18 months at Greater Lowell Technical High School have legal fees in the district soaring, with teachers filing more grievances, some School Committee members say.

Ken Martin is the highest-paid local housing director in the state, earning a combined $184,000 for managing 1,107 units in Methuen full time and 97 units in Ayer part time, according to state salary records.

DRIVING BLIND: When are they going to paint lines on the road? You can't see what lane you're in at night.

All Lowell middle schools will participate in the snowman-making contest Friday at City Hall as part of Lowell's Winterfest activities.

The Zoning Board of Appeals has approved a comprehensive permit for the construction of an affordable-housing development to be located off of Mill Street Extension, according to Planning Director Noreen Piazza.

Two elected town officials said some Dracut Housing Authority commissioners are no longer fit to serve because of their ties to former Chelsea Housing Authority Director Michael McLaughlin.

A faith-formation and evangelization campaign by Renew International is designed to help Catholics answer a very important question: "Why Catholic?" The campaign aims to answer that and other important life's questions by offering a faith-filled point of view.

Monday Jan 30: Melissa L. Beauregard, 31, of 431 Boston Turnpike, Shrewsbury, was summonsed to court on a complaint issued Jan.

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I know it's a lot to ask, but ... because I get blamed for this stuff I might just need to do one more column on the McLaughlin group.