Ayer News

This American Cancer Society fundraiser will have participants going through Groton this year.

With the approval of Ayer's Town Meeting on May 14, 2012 along with the unanimous approval of the Town Meetings of the Member Towns of the Nashoba Valley Technical High School, the Town of Ayer will become a Member Town of the Nashoba Valley Technical High School District effective July 1, 2012.

The eighth year of the Janis Bresnahan Run for Education took place under a sky so blue, it looked like it was Photoshopped into the scene.

Ayer police arrested a Level 3 sex offender last week and charged him with failing to properly register his residency in town as required by state law.

AYER/SHIRLEY -- When the ASRSD School Committee met May 16, a new member joined the table and an incumbent had retained his seat.

He gathered the requisite signatures for each article, securing a spot on the Ayer Annual Town Meeting warrant for two issues for voter consideration.

An Ayer man remained in critical condition at a Boston hospital yesterday following Friday night's motor-vehicle accident on West Main Street.

The days of Mad Men work attire are over. "People in today's work environment are not required to wear suits - most people wear polo shirts to work," said Kristin Murphy, owner of the former Duds Cleaners in Acton .

Just 81 people came to Annual Town Meeting Monday night, representing only 2 percent of the town's 3,972 registered voters.

The Friends of the Marlborough Public Library will present the third concert of the 2011-2012 Yacyshyn Concert Series, featuring "THE ANICK 15th Young People's Performing Arts Festival Concert," Wednesday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m., with the six finalists of the May 17 auditions to be showcased.

For Erich Garger, the weed-filled murky Lost Lake seems like an example of how town officials have neglected the neighborhood.

At approx. 6:18pm on 05/18/12, the Ayer Police and Fire Department were dispatched to West Main St for a report of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian.

Well adult clinic: Nashoba Associated Boards of Health, in conjunction with the Ayer Board of Health, announces that a Well Adult Clinic will be held free of charge for the general public from 11 a.m. to noon at the Senior Center, 18 Pond St., Ayer.

Health fair: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Senior Center. The whole community is welcome to come and visit the many vendors, information booths and health screenings.

This is the eighth year for an ever-growing phenomenon -- the Janis Bresnahan 5K Run for Education.

Anthony Bent, former interim schools superintendent in Leominster, will take the reins of the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District as interim superintendent if contractual negotiations are successful.

The Groton Historical Society and the Nashua River Watershed Association invite the public to join us for our "Birds of Groton and Ayer: Birding Walk" at 7 a.m. in Groton.

Two Marlborough musicians are among the six finalists who will perform in the third concert of the Yacyshyn Concert Series on Wednesday, May 23.

Police arrested John M. King, 38, allegedly living at 6 Whitcomb Ave., saying he failed to properly register with Ayer police as a sex offender living in town, as required by the state's Sex Offender Registry laws.

The shocking story of 24-year-old Aimee Copeland, who in a short time transitioned from a healthy, active young woman to a very ill patient, mouthing questions to her family after having her leg amputated, has brought flesh-eating bacteria as necrotizing fasciitis to the headlines.