Douglas News

Despite torrential rain and the threat of severe thunderstorms, more than 60 Sutton and Douglas residents, state and local officials packed the selectmen's meeting room yesterday afternoon for the state-held meeting on Manchaug Reservoir Corp.'s petition to breach the Manchaug Pond Dam.

Last month, Qualcomm co-founder and former chairman and CEO Irwin Jacobs returned to New Bedford, where he was born, to participate in an oceanside chat sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, the Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum and MassNetComms.

Mass layoffs slow in Bay State, spike in U.S. Boston Business Journal - by Craig M. Douglas Mass layoffs dropped in the Bay State last month, bucking a national trend.

A four-year mission by the Cornerstone Baptist Church to convert a former grange hall into its permanent house of worship is complete and a public celebration marking the occasion will be held later this week.

The owner of the Manchaug Pond Dam is taking steps to breach the dam, a move that would shrink the pond, reduce the flow of the Mumford River, and interfere with sewage treatment at the wastewater plant in neighboring Douglas.

A 45-year-old Whitinsville woman was arraigned today on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and six counts of statutory rape of a child.

A 60-meter meteorological test tower was installed on the site last week. DOUGLAS - With the appeal period ended, the Douglas Woods wind farm project is moving forward with the installation of a test tower and negotiations over connection agreements.

There are serious allegations that our government broke the law and violated the Constitution and we must ensure that our citizens are fully empowered with the opportunity to understand the inner workings of our government.

A Turners Falls woman with a history of depression was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail yesterday on charges of trying to murder her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors at a Gardner apartment complex.

Five Worcester County mortgage brokers and lenders are among 87 in Massachusetts stripped of their licenses yesterday by the state Division of Banks.

GIRLS' LACROSSE Bromfield 20, St. Peter-Marian 19 Junior attack Lindsey Maynard scored 13 goals and added an assist in a losing effort for the Guardians.

There's still time to get tickets to Mass MoCA's 10th anniversary celebration. Find out how here .

An Uxbridge man pleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court yesterday afternoon to motor vehicle homicide and marijuana possession charges stemming from an accident last year that left a 22-year-old woman dead.

Two former Selectmen will be challenging incumbent John W. Goerlach for a three-year term on the board in Tuesday's annual town elections.

The Massachusetts Bar Association has added a new layer to its Serving Our Veterans in the Law initiative: a free Visiting Lawyer Program that will first be offered to Worcester County veterans.

Ken Prior grew up in a time when Catholics and Protestants didn't mingle. He was 12 years old when he invited a Catholic friend to his Sunday School Christmas party, and his friend's parents wouldn't allow him to attend.

Valerie Veridiano has been named chief of internal medicine at Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital , 189 May St., Worcester.

By Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapted by Sylvia Ashby, directed by Sarah Worrest, stage management by Brenda Gale, assistant stage management by Meredith Patterson and Jennifer Potts, lighting design by Ben Oldham, set design by Daniel Daly.

Ashburnham Vitone wins election to succeed Gagnon ASHBURNHAM - Despite the near 90-degree weather yesterday, 682 voters turned out for a two-way race between a businessman and stay-at-home mother vying for the selectmen's seat.

Auburn * Pakachoag Church, 203 Pakachoag St., will hold a 'kids' day' from noon to 3 p.m. May 3. Proceeds will benefit Heifer Project International.