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Saturday | Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Relocated feral cats get a new lease on life

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.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Students excel at Northeastern

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

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Lowell Sun

Regionalizing school districts could hurt students

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

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Lowell Sun

Final bell tolls for Pepperell, Townsend elementary schools

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.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

Townsend Fire Chief Don Klein

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.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Lowell Sun

Job sharing or divided loyalties?

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.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

Dedicated, quiet man died for his country

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.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Portion of bike race

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

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Townsend Recreation offers summer programs series

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

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Workers' union opposes Unitil fines

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.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

WBUR-AM Boston

AG Looks To Fine Utility For Ice Storm Outages

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.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

WBZ TV

The Dec. 11-12 ice storm brought down power lines throughout central and western Massachusetts.

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.

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Mon Jun 01, 2009

Pepperell Free Press

The Posting Board

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.

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Sat May 30, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

HealthAlliance awards $90,000 in scholarships

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.

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Thu May 28, 2009

Pepperell Free Press

TM passes school budget after debate

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.

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Tue May 26, 2009

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Unitil Works To Reclaim Its Public Image

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.

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Sun May 24, 2009

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New Laws Needed To Protect Utility Customers

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.

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Fri May 22, 2009

Nashoba Publishing Online

Heavy load made light by caring volunteers

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

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Tue May 19, 2009

Lowell Sun

Pepperell school budget passes despite opposition

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

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Sat May 16, 2009

MassLive.com

Sen. John Kerry files bill to provide $500 million a year to help upgrade police stations

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

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