Sep
7
James Angelone III is September Artist of Month
September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Methuen Artist’s Work on Display in the Mayor’s Office
Born and raised in Methuen, James grew up in a family filled with a respect for the arts. Various family members have displayed talents ranging from performing in Vaudeville to apprenticing with Bill Alexander. Once James had begun to show interest as a child, his family [...]
Sep
2
Feast of the Three Saints Announcement and Schedule
September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment
NEWS ALERT: Feast of Three Saints Announcement: Due to the impending heavy rain and high winds slated to hit the Greater Lawrence area on Friday, Sept 3rd from hurricane Earl the activities planned for the Opening Day of the Feast of the Three Saints celebration have been postponed to Saturday Sept. 4th. Attached, please [...]
Aug
26
Education Dollars to Methuen
August 26, 2010 | 4 Comments
Governor Patrick’s education announcement. Methuen will receive $1.8 million in education funding from this federal grant.
NEW BEDFORD - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - Governor Deval Patrick today allocated $204 million from the federal Education Jobs Fund to school districts across the Commonwealth, bringing state support for public schools to its highest level in history. [...]
Aug
23
Michael Widmer on Municipal Health Care and Pensions
August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The President of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Michael Widmer has written a letter to all Legislators and candidates for the Legislature calling on them to support changes in health care and pension law that would allow municipalities to save over $100 million a year by granting plan design authority to localities. I have submitted Home [...]
Aug
19
Mayor’s Corner on Methuen High School
August 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
This month’s Mayor’s Corner, with guests Arthur Nicholson, Suzanne Lamoureux, and Gino Baroni. We talked about the Methuen High School project and update the community on recent progress on the activities of Methuen’s Building Committee.
Aug
17
Mosquito Spraying in Methuen Tomorrow
August 17, 2010 | 6 Comments
As a precaution, the Methuen Health Department has requested that The Northeast Massachusetts Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District apply a barrier treatment to Methuen School District fields and City of Methuen parks and to perform a citywide mosquito spraying to reduce adult mosquito populations.
Treatment will begin on Wednesday August 18th from [...]
Aug
10
Release Federal Money ASAP
August 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
The President spoke on the $26 billion bill just passed by Congress to send additional money to state and local governments. I know that we will get some debate on the merits of the bill here (it is a rare bill that is actually paid for) but I would like to emphasize that the Commonwealth [...]
Aug
6
Governor Patrick on General Mills Solar
August 6, 2010 | 3 Comments
Governor Patrick was kind enough to send a video for the General Mills event in which he talks about not only General Mills, but also about the Massachusetts efforts on renewable sources of energy. Nice job here by the Governor.
Aug
5
Judy Scannell Named Interim Superintendent
August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Methuen School Committee, in a unanimous vote, selected Tenney/Timony Supervising Principal Judy Scannell to be the interim Superintendent of Schools in Methuen. The Committee voted to give Judy a one year contract. She is slated to replace Dr. Jeanne Whitten, who retires at the end of August.
Jul
31
The Guy Glodis Interview
July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis joined me on WCAP to talk about his candidacy for State Auditor. Thanks to Guy for taking the time to come on. And yes we did talk about unfunded state mandates.