Ashby News

Sandy Taylor's job before her retirement a few years ago was helping place about-to-be released state prison inmates back into society and the working world.

Northeastern University is pleased to recognize several area students who distinguished themselves academically during the the school year.

I have to agree with the June 18 editorial in The Sun about job sharing or divided loyalties.

Teachers at the Peter Fitzpatrick School in Pepperell wave goodbye to students yesterday as the buses pulled out of the lot for the last time.

Fire Chief Donald Klein was both humbled and curious as to why he has been named recipient of the 2009 Nashoba Publishing Extraordinary Service Award.

Evidently, Maureen Marshall doesn't have enough to do as the full-time superintendent of schools of the North Middlesex Regional School District, so she also wants to run the Quabbin Regional School District at the same time.

A soldier who went to war at an age when some would have been retired, and was known by people locally as a quiet-spoken man who loved his country, died Wednesday from wounds suffered in Afghanistan.

Fitchburg Longsjo Classic officials have moved one of the four legs of the bike race out of Fitchburg, race Director Ed Collier said Thursday.

The Townsend Recreation's six-week summer program will be held, Monday to Friday, July 6 to Aug.

The $4.6 million in penalties proposed against Unitil by Attorney General Martha Coakley's office will hurt the utility without helping its customers avoid another prolonged outage such as the one that followed the December ice storm, according to the president of Local 369 of the Utility Workers Union of America.

State Attorney General Martha Coakley is looking to fine utility-provider Unitil $4.6 million in connection with its failures restoring electricity after December's massive ice storm.

AG: Unitil Should Pay $4.6 Million For Ice Storm Jun 5, 2009 2:08 pm US/Eastern AG: Unitil Should Pay $4.6 Million For Ice Storm Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants the utility company that left thousands of customers in the dark after the December ice storm to pay millions of dollars in fines.

A celebration cookout will be hosted by TAYSA on Saturday, June 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hawthorne Brook Middle School.

HealthAlliance Hospital/Leominster awarded 30 $3,000 scholarships at its annual Healthcare Career Opportunity Fund Scholarship Reception recently held at the Wachusett Village Inn in Westminster.

The North Middlesex Regional School District budget survived a last-ditch attempt to mandate cutbacks as an historic five-session annual Town Meeting ground to a close this week, continuing a trend to shut down close to midnight.

After testifying at a Department of Public Utilities hearing a few weeks ago, in which utility company Unitil defended its emergency response system following December's ice storm, Tom Alonzo, chair of Lunenburg's board of selectman, came home to discover not much had changed.

During the night of Dec. 11, 2008, a terrible ice storm struck New England. More than 1 million people lost power in the initial aftermath of the storm.

Seniors in Ashby received a helping hand with storm cleanup thanks to the efforts of enthusiastic volunteers.

Town Meeting last night approved the regional school budget despite an attempt to reduce it.

By DAN RING dring@repub.com BOSTON - Citing the crumbling condition of certain police headquarters in Western Massachusetts, U.S. Sen.