East Brookfield News

Teachers and school administrators warn of dire consequences if residents here and in Spencer continue to turn down an override to fund a roughly $26 million fiscal 2014 regional school budget.

A Barre man is being held without bail after he allegedly threatened to kill his wife, then later led police on Sunday to three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition he had buried in their backyard.

The Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the fiscal 2014 budget.

The solar facility planned for Harrington Street is expanding into a segment of the same property situated in neighboring Spencer.

The YWCA of Central Massachusetts gave Katharine F. Erskine Awards Monday to five women whose professional accomplishments have made life better for their community, especially for women and girls.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with statutory rape of a child, enticing a child under 16 years old and four other counts after he allegedly met a 15-year-old Hardwick girl online, had sex with her and said he wanted her to have a family with him.

A Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School Committee member said again this week he has no plans to personally pay a $969 bill from the committee's lawyer.

Teachers in the Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School District have ratified a contract that will have them paying more for health insurance while forgoing raises.

The Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School Committee may vote on a contract with teachers at its meeting Tuesday night.

A restraining order has been issued against a Springfield meteorologist a week after a previous order expired and after he allegedly began harassing a Warren woman again.

Two overrides that could increase the tax rate by $2.61 per $1,000 of valuation top the warrant for the annual town meeting.

Josephine L. DePalma, 104, of Shrewsbury, died Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Beaumont Rehabilitation Skilled Nursing Center, Northborough after a long wonderful life.