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ARMED FORCES Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Brian A. Como Jr., son of Brian Como Sr.
Aghababian leads Mass. Medical Society
Richard V. Aghababian , a Southboro resident and the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School , has been elected p resident of the Massachusetts Medical Society .
Charlton town meeting OKs $22.1M budget
The 261 voters at town meeting last night unanimously adopted a general operating budget of $22.1 million for the fiscal 2013 that begins July1.
Charlton selectmen honor Kaitlyn Benjamin
National Honor Society student Kaitlyn E. Benjamin received an Outstanding Vocational Technical Student Award from the Board of Selectmen May 14.
Charlton voters will be asked to raze Quonset Hut
Whether the town should seek special state legislation to begin assessing water system betterments, raze the Quonset Hut on North Main Street and adopt a $22.1 million budget are among the questions voters will be asked to decide at the annual town meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Charlton Middle School.
DUI killer's 9- to 12-year sentence upheld
A Worcester Superior Court judge has upheld a sentence against a man who, 14 years ago, was convicted of killing a man and severely injuring members of the man's family in a drunken driving crash on Route 20 in Charlton.
PC types everywhere, even on TV
This is one of those times when this column is a compendium of items that come about when you take note of things that happen when you are fishing for a column.
Senior portrait business rattled
When the time came last spring for Paulette Montville's daughter, Amanda, then a junior at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton, to have her senior portrait taken, the Charlton mother knew where she wanted to have the photo done: Her brother, Henry Montville, has been a professional photographer in Auburn for 31 years.
Chamber of Central Mass South announces scholarship winners
The Chamber of Central Mass South has announced the winners of the Chamber Scholarships for 2012.
Rutland to decide on Prop 2 1/2 override at the polls May 14
Rutland voters will decide May 14 in the annual town election whether to pass a Proposition 2-1/2 override to pay $1,450,963 of the town's annual fiscal 2013 budget, including part of the town's Wachusett Regional School District assessment and some expenses in the general municipal operating budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. That's the ... (more)
Regional high school plans on track
With town meeting approvals from half of the 10 towns needed, the $73.8 million project to renovate and expand Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High remains on track despite three failed debt exclusions Monday.
The destructive power of nature never fails to amaze us. So too does nature's ability to recover and regenerate.
Dudley voters say no to Bay Path project
Voters tonight rejected a debt exclusion that would have increased taxes to pay for the Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School renovation project over 30 years, and a $6,000 Proposition 2-1/2 override that would have raised taxes indefinitely.
In Webster, Miller ousts Ricci from Board of Selectmen
Robert J. Miller won election to the Board of Selectmen today, besting incumbent Walter D. Ricci by eight votes in a four-way race.
Bay Path renovations clear Oxford town meeting
Voters at the May 2 annual town meeting approved a $33.5 million budget for fiscal 2013, and voted to fund Oxford's share of a proposed $73.7 million addition and renovation of Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton.
Four ballot questions to face voters at May 15 Oxford election
All candidates are running unopposed in the May 15 annual town election, but voters also will be asked four ballot questions, including one to support a debt exclusion to fund the town's share of renovations and additions to Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton.
Incumbent selectmen returned to office in Charlton
Voters returned incumbent Selectmen David M. Singer and Rick C. Swensen to office, elected Joseph S. Spiewak to the water-sewer commission and approved a Proposition 2-1/2 debt exclusion at the annual town election yesterday.
Westminster Voters pass budget; reject schools formula WESTMINSTER - Voters at yesterday's annual town meeting approved an $18.2 million town budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Incumbent Walter D. Ricci, political newcomer Brian A. Chenevert, former selectman and longtime funeral director Robert J. Miller and former Patriot publisher Paul O'Donnell are all vying for a three-year seat on the Board of Selectmen in Monday's Town Election.
Roma E. "Sis" (Campaniello) Bohigian, 69
Roma E. "Sis" Bohigian, 69, of Ft. Pierce, Florida, formerly a lifelong resident of Shrewsbury, passed away Monday, April 30th 2012 in the University of Massachusetts Hospital after being stricken ill.