Athol News

In their classrooms, Somerville students learn about healthy food choices, including the benefits of locally-grown food.

Gov. Deval Patrick found a resistant audience when he visited Mount Wachusett Community College Wednesday to explain his proposal for coordinating administrative operations of the state's 15 community colleges.

School officials are advising parents to discuss safety issues with their children, after an Athol elementary school student walking to school Tuesday morning was approached by a strange man in a pickup truck.

A yearlong series of events in the central Massachusetts community starts Saturday with a black-tie ball at town hall.

State and local fire investigators continue to look for the cause of a fire that destroyed the former N.D. Cass Toy Co.

A three-alarm fire leveled the former ND Cass Co. toy factory Thursday night. At around 7:30 p.m., firefighters responded to the three-story building on Lumber Street, and found the structure fully engulfed in flame, according to Terry Dun, public information officer for the Northwest Incident Management Team.

Firefighters are battling a massive three-alarm blaze in a factory on Lumber Street.

ATHOL, Mass. - Dozens of firefighters from several communities have doused a massive fire at a former Athol toy manufacturer.

State police are awaiting autopsy results to help determine the cause of a 65-year-old Framingham woman's fatal car crash Monday night.

SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE photos / CONNOR GLEASON Fitchburg High School students, from left, juniors Merrick Henry and Chris DeLaCruz, freshman Travis Teague and junior Tysean Foster of the FHS step team, perform as part of a flash mob during the United Way of North Central Massachusetts' "Martin Luther King Jr.: Living the Dream Celebration" at the ... (more)

A 65-year-old Framingham woman died tonight after the car she was driving crossed the median on Route 2, struck an oncoming pickup in a westbound lane and rolled over.