Devens News

Despite having been embroiled in a legal saga against Pan Am Railways, the town of Ayer has signed off on supporting an EPA grant for the Billerica-based rail company.

The concept of a regional emergency communication center that would include a Reverse 911 system that will allow residents to be electronically warned of trouble has come to town.

At her age, no one could blame her for needing some sprucing up. The First Church of Christ Unitarian, known as the Fifth Meeting House or the Bulfinch Church, has been in use since 1816.

With the state's unemployment rate hovering dangerously close to 10 percent, and over 300,000 residents without a job, Massachusetts could use a plan for jump-starting the economy and getting people back to work.

Is joining a regional hazardous-waste program still in the formative stages better than a town-operated program, or forcing residents to drive 45 minutes to Lexington now that the Lunenburg regional program is going away? The majority of Special Town Meeting voters were willing to take the chance this week, against the recommendation of the Board ...

It took more than three years, but developer Jim Whitney on Friday heard the news he'd been waiting for -- the state awarded a $1.1 million grant to Whitney's Southgate Business Park, which will be used to start building a road in the development.

The 11th annual Veterans Day assembly at Ayer High School was a unique mix of old and new, with two students unveiling a new documentary and adults honoring a departed colleague.

Each of the last four years, the Shirley Republican Town Committee organizes Operation Cookie Drop and this year will be the same.

A week after Russ Williston of 188 Shirley Road heard logging sounds in the woods behind his backyard, he awoke last Saturday to find his fence, hedges and trees removed.

At its Nov. 2 meeting, the Board of Selectmen took up a subject that's been simmering on a back burner since spring, when longtime Police Chief Paul Thibodeau retired.

Modern technology has made impending hurricanes prime fodder for 24-hour news and weather networks, which offer extensive coverage of major storms long before they make landfall.

In a departure from the agenda, the selectmen began their Nov. 2 meeting with a testimonial to longtime resident and decorated WWII veteran John Hebert, who died Nov.

School teachers and administrators were on hand to greet parents who took advantage of an open house at the proposed new home for the Harvard public school's Integrated Pre-K program.

The loss was $82.4 million, or 40 cents a share, compared with a loss of $24.6 million, or 19 cents, a year earlier, the Marlboro-based company said yesterday.

It was once billed as the anchor for a new Devens, but these days Gillette is looking to become the third major company in recent years to get out of leased space on Saratoga Boulevard.

Halloween -- a time for pumpkin carvings, scary movies, and front door hauntings.

The money rattling around in Jasmine's pocket is all she had left from her last paycheck.

The Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting its 11th annual Community Service & Leadership Awards event Wednesday, Nov.

We are very excited to share information with you regarding the Early Childhood Center located at Devens, which is now available to the Harvard Integrated Preschool Program.

In the winter of 1778, Town Meeting voted to "supply the families of the continental soldiers of this town." In 1946, the entire town gathered to welcome veterans of World War II home with a daylong celebration and dinner.