Ashby News

Choking back tears, Robert Gulla's mother testified Monday that when she returned to her Shirley home on the evening of Jan.

The college that Fitchburg State University President Dr. Robert V. Antonucci calls the 'No. 1 university in the state' graduated more than 530 of its students on yesterday's beautiful sunny morning during the school's 116th spring commencement ceremony.

Clementine A. "Tina" Folia, 86, of Ashby, formerly of Clinton and Harvard, died Tuesday, May 15, in the Rose Monahan Hospice Home, Worcester, after an illness.

Years of holding the line on finances for the North Middlesex School District has culminated in override votes cross-district. Pepperell voted to authorize a $1,691,653 appropriation to fund the North Middlesex School District budget, contingent on passage of a Proposition 2 1/2 override.

Benefit concert: 8 to 11 p.m., Townsend VFW Post. The local band "Rubber Soul" will play a benefit concert for the Townsend Lions Club.

Police are warning residents about a potential scam in town involving fake utility workers.

Julia Repaal, 17, of Ashby is taking pledges to have her hair shorn off. All money raised will go to The St.

Years of holding the line on finances for the North Middlesex School District has culminated in cross-district overrides, all of which were approved.

Maureen Marshall, superintendent of the North Middlesex Regional School District, left the annual Town Meeting in Ashby Saturday in great spirits.

Voters will take to Town Meeting floor Saturday morning to vote on the special and annual Town Meeting warrants, and selectmen don't feel there's too many contentious articles.

I have read in the paper lately that Superintendent Maureen Marshall is trying to get the towns of Pepperell, Townsend and Ashby to vote in favor of a Proposition 2 1/2 override for the North Middlesex Regional High School.

An Ashby woman has been charged with operating under the influence and destruction of property after her 2008 Nissan Rogue careened off the road and into a Lindell Avenue home early Sunday.

Voters at Saturday's annual Town Meeting will decide whether to approve an overlay district in the downtown that seeks to promote economic development.