Auburn News

It took no small amount of courage in 1992 - or even today, actually - for a professor at a Catholic college to criticize her president's rigid stand against homosexuality.

Arnold Villatico's restaurant straddles the Auburn-Oxford town line on Route 20, but he's thankful he pays his local taxes to Oxford, not Auburn.

Millbury police are asking for the public's help in identifying two people who allegedly stole a woman's wallet and charged more than $1,500 on her credit cards at stores in Millbury, Worcester and Westboro.

GOING THROUGH A PHASE The Route 12 reconstruction project in Auburn has been completed substantially easing traffic flow between Church Street and Route 20.

Jay P. Rutkiewicz defines himself as frugal, a man who has been financially responsible since he was 16; an entrepreneurial man of ideas; a 'learning sponge'; a skilled carpenter and painter who, with his wife Krystle, gutted and renovated their home.

A disbarred lawyer whose Web site once touted him as "a lawyer you can trust" has been sentenced to 30-months imprisonment for two counts of wire fraud to misappropriate $1,990,000 from a client's account.

After nearly 35 years of selling Chevys on Park Avenue, Diamond Chevrolet is leaving Worcester for what it hopes are greener pastures.

Tomorrow, the Department of Public Works and Parks will begin collecting leaves in the following areas bounded by: *Webster Street , Main Street , Stafford Street and South Ludlow Street and James Streets; *Stafford , Wildwood Avenue, Main and Eureka; *Main , Gates Lane, Mill Street , First and Westcott streets; *Paxton line, Pleasant Street , Tory ...

Auburn * Bethel Lutheran Church, 90 Bryn Mawr Ave., will hold its country fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.

Beginning tomorrow, the city will collect leaves in the areas bounded by Webster Street, Hope Avenue, Malvern Street , Whipple Street and McKeon Road .

A parking valet who armed himself with an umbrella was credited today with helping save a grandmother as she was being attacked in downtown Boston by a knife-wielding career criminal intent on being sent back to prison where he has spent half his life.

Mendon Police Officer Jim Walckner and dispatcher Trish Benoit at work in the police station dispatch area recently.

Police have closed both ends of Rochdale and Leicester streets because a tractor-trailer truck loaded with beer got stuck beneath the bridge where the roads intersect.

Algonquin Regional High School Class of 1974 : A 35-year reunion will be held Nov.

Judge James R. Lemire Stephen Smith, 47, of 776 Main St., Worcester, charged with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, reckless endangerment of a child, and intimidation of a witness.

With a full show of music planned, and video submissions to GAC, CMT and VH1 COUNTRY in the works, you won't want to miss this insider look at this Nashville songwriter and recording artist who originally hails from Auburn.

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Two city men were sentenced to state prison yesterday on charges stemming from a robbery last year at an Auburn pharmacy.

Judge Peter W. Agnes Jr. Jose L. Hernandez, 42, of Chelsea, was sentenced to 8 to 10 years in Walpole state prison after pleading guilty to assault with intent to murder.

Two Auburn men and two Worcester women have been arrested in connection with the theft of a gun from an Old Princeton Road home.