Fitchburg News

How pathetic is it that Fitchburg High School Prinicipal Jeremy Roche has to hold a raffle for an iPad to encourage students to show up for school? That's just what he did Friday during an attendance rally at the school.

The Planning Board was unable to reach a quorum and canceled its meeting Tuesday evening.

Police allege that a sanitary inspector for the city's Health Department was drunk when he drove into a lamppost on Main Street early Monday morning.

A Day Street man with a suspended license was allegedly driving a stolen car toward a state police trooper's cruiser -- in the wrong lane -- on Saturday, according to court documents.

City councilors unanimously voted Tuesday to send a letter inviting Fitchburg's federal elected representatives to a meeting to discuss the city's ongoing struggle with the Environmental Protection Agency.

A partial DNA profile generated from the fingernail scrapings of Clara J. Provost matched the DNA exemplar of Ronald D. Dame, the man accused of murdering her 38 years ago, a Worcester Superior Court jury was told today.

This was part of the local lore that writer and historian Anne O'Connor spoke about Friday at the Friday Nights in Fitchburg History Club, held at the McKay Campus School.

Holbert, 16, of Fitchburg, is playing Jesus in Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School's showing of "Godspell" next month, a musical based on a series of parables from the New Testament in contemporary settings.

Patients won't see another health center quite like it. That's because Community Health Connections' new community health center was designed by the center's director and a doctor on staff.

Mayor Lisa Wong and Fitchburg Pilots Association past president Charley Valera are decrying President Barack Obama's proposal to charge certain aircraft $100 each time they take off from airports such as the city's municipal airport.

State Auditor Suzanne Bump announced last week that school districts statewide are projected to spend close to $11.3 million this fiscal year for an unfunded mandate that requires cities and towns to provide transportation and education for homeless children when they are placed in a different municipality for temporary housing.

Fitchburg High School raffled off an iPad 2 on Friday to a one lucky student who needed to do just one thing to be entered: Attend classes.

Fitchburg Federal, a division of Webster First Federal Credit Union, will host a member appreciation week for all members from Tuesday through Friday.

On March 28, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., Corinne Smith, a Henry David Thoreau scholar, will present "Henry David Thoreau and Fitchburg: A Transcendental Travelogue," at the library.

With roughly four months until riders from the annual Longsjo Classic bicycle race are scheduled to speed around downtown Fitchburg, race organizers want to make sure complications from the Johnsonia building fire don't close down the street and force them to cancel the race like last year.

Ashburnham floral designer Elizabeth McLaughlin will give an in-depth presentation on "floriography," or the language of flowers at the Laurelwood Garden Club's upcoming meeting set for Friday, March 2, at the Fitchburg Art Museum.

Corroborating the testimony of an earlier witness, a state police fingerprint expert told a jury yesterday that Ronald C. Dame's fingerprints and palm prints were discovered on the outside of the door to Clara J. Provost's Fitchburg apartment after she was found slain there 38 years ago.

LANCASTER - Ruth E. Lamsa, 86, lived her life with courage until she died suddenly Feb.

While crime fell in Leominster in 2011, total reported crime in Fitchburg went up, but Fitchburg Police Chief Robert DeMoura said those numbers reflect expanded efforts in monitoring theft and combating domestic violence.

Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown on Wednesday called for the swift federal-court confirmation of Judge Timothy S. Hillman, a former city solicitor in Fitchburg and Gardner.