Ashby News

North Middlesex Regional High School is the local high school serving Pepperell, Townsend and Ashby, but how much do you know about the programs and services it provides to students? Today, parents and students have a choice as to where their student goes, be it public school, private school, charter school or school choice.

Officials from both Ashby and Ashburnham met Wednesday night at Town Hall to begin a series of discussions on whether regionalizing their dispatch services is a viable avenue to pursue.

The Townsend VFW Post 6538 and Pepperell VFW Post 3291 and their Ladies Auxiliaries received 27 entries in the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Ladies Auxiliary Voice of Democracy Patriotic Audio Essay Competition for high-school students.

John Mickola has lived in the same house at 590 Jones Hill Road since he was born 64 years ago.

Seniors gathered at round tables in the Meeting Hall Thursday to socialize, dine, sing and generally have fun.

Where can you get fresh vegetables, beautiful music, classic art, alpaca yarn and bat houses, sit in a pharaoh's chair or eat red velvet cake pops and giant chocolate chip cookies, all under one roof? At the Fitchburg Farmers Winter Market at the Fitchburg Art Museum, of course.

Robert C. Alario, CPA PC, an accounting firm that specializes in taxation and finance, recently announced the following personnel moves: * Dianne Feroli, of Townsend, was promoted to senior staff accountant.

Ashby residents could be hit with a 1-percent increase in all nonschool-related items in the fiscal 2013 budget, according to Town Administrator Doug Briggs.

The decade-old legislation has gained traction in recent years, making it out of committee during the previous legislation session, but failing to reach the House floor for a vote.

For six Girl Scout troops, the three-alarm fire in December that destroyed the two-story St.

When State Rep. Rich Bastien was elected in 2010, he pledged to hold monthly office hours in each of the communities he covers to reach out to his constituents as much as possible.

A former Ashby firefighter will have his day in Ayer District Court on Wednesday when he is arraigned on a single assault-and-battery charge after getting into an argument with his wife.