Billerica News

With the old Drum Hill Rotary assigned to the dustbin, Billerica Center ranks as the most confusing, rip-out-your-hair, exasperating traffic experiences in Greater Lowell.

A wounded goose crashed through a Boston Road resident's bedroom window yesterday morning, just seconds after a hunter at nearby Griggs Farm shot it out of the sky, Police Chief Dan Rosa said.

The fire that roared through a University Lane home on Wednesday was caused by carelessly discarded smoking material, Deputy Chief Tom Ferraro confirmed yesterday.

A Boston Road resident was greeted Friday morning by a surprise visitor -- a wounded goose, shot by hunters at nearby Griggs Farm, which police said somehow managed to sail through the resident's open window.

A Billerica man died after crashing a snowmobile he was driving into several trees Wednesday night in Milan, N.H. Kenneth Smalley Jr., 51, lost control of his snowmobile on a corner of the trail, sending him off the trail in the northern fringe of the White Mountain National Forest.

Jeff Best drove by the former Wilmington home of his family's business the other day and saw that not much had changed in the last year.

Allan Garvin was in the midst of his daily afternoon routine moments before the University Lane home he built with his wife more than 40 years ago went up in flames.

A design concept aimed at reinventing the town center's traffic pattern is available to view at the Sun's website and at the town's. Selectmen stressed during Monday night's presentation that the plan is still in the idea stage and that nothing is final without Town Meeting approval.

On Jan. 29 at The Auntie Dog Training Studio, eight purebreds and five mixed breeds were tested and became American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizens.

Members of Billerica Girl Scout Troop 61013 recently held a Bridging and Award Ceremony where all nine troop members bridged from Cadette to Senior Girl Scouts and received the United States Heritage Award.

Imagine a town center where you didn't have to turn south on Concord Road to head north on Boston Road.

Enjoy checking books and movies out of the public library for free? What about your son or daughter's free education? When selectmen voted in December 2010 to give the average homeowner a tax bill of $4,100 for fiscal 2011, it meant they also decided that the average homeowner would pay $43.07 to use the library in fiscal 2012, even if they don't ... (more)

The student who allegedly barged into the Nashoba Valley Technical High School cafeteria in October with a BB gun that looked like an assault rifle had a troubled history that was unknown to school officials.

The town's bid to secure a $16.3 million state grant to kick-start the widening of Middlesex Turnpike is dead, Town Manager John Curran said.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log.i»¿ Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account.

The school district announced Thursday afternoon which neighborhood will undergo a transfer of approximately 46 students from the Vining Elementary School to the new Parker Elementary School, slated to open at the beginning of the next school year.

Police arrested a Billerica man last night in connection with the armed home invasion and attack at a home on Tremlett Road earlier this week.

The historic, double-arched stone bridge connected Pleasant Street over the Blackstone River for 100 years.

A The following press release was provided by Nancy Keebler, from Sacred Heart Parish .

BUS COURTESY: Why do the small CTI and city school buses have to park in the middle of the road tooting their horns waiting for someone to come out? Shouldn't they pull over and wait for someone? WELL-MANAGED: Congratulations to the Tewksbury selectmen; they recognize and appreciate a good manager.