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October 29, 2007

Backtalk 10/27/2007

USE SOAP: Regarding the staph infection: As an athlete at Lowell High School in the mid-1970s, after gym class or any sport, everyone took a shower. Nowadays, the kids don't take a shower; they just put their clothes back on.

Lowell

MAKE A CALL: Shame and three demerits for the Dracut School Committee. They didn't think to call the Haverhill school system and do their homework. A few phone calls to Haverhill would've given them plenty of reasons to let their cream-of-the-crop candidate stay in Woburn.

Haverhill

BIG JUMP: If the Dracut School Committee thinks W. Spencer Mullin can go from being a principal in a building of 535 students and 52 teachers, to being a superintendent of a school system with 4,200 students and 250 teachers, they're crazy.

Dracut

JUST SAY NO: Billerica zoning bylaws were voted to protect the residents. If Home Depot doesn't conform to the strict interpretation of our bylaws, it should be just told no. It's that simple. Laws are to protect the residents.

Billerica

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DESK PATROL: I've known Lowell Police Sgt. Mickey O'Keefe for many years, and like him, but if he can run a half-marathon, then he can work light duty. It seems beyond reasonable. It's not right.

Lowell

LOOK ELSEWHERE: Why pick on Police Sgt. Mickey O'Keefe when he hasn't collected a dime for his injury, but there are many who have been collecting for years? Why isn't anything said about those people?

Lowell

DO NOT CALL: For all the people who complained they received too many calls so they didn't vote for that candidate: Please be aware that politicians and charities are exempt from the Do Not Call listing. With the first call, you should have requested to be put on their do not call list. To not vote for someone with whom you agree just because they called your house one too many times is outrageous.

Chelmsford

PUT IT OUT: When is Dracut going to enforce no smoking at Pop Warner and high school football games? It's illegal to smoke on school property and it's disgusting.

Dracut

STRANGE DELAY: About the man who was in a hit-and-run in Dracut: I found it very strange that it took three days for the Dracut police to release the information, and that the man who killed the man was picked up, failed several field sobriety tests, and was arraigned only on drunken-driving charges and released. Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with this?

No town given

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Posted by Admin at October 29, 2007 11:24 AM