Gardner News

Philip Ceryanek, left, and Peter Garlock, founders of Garlock Printing and Converting Corp., stand in front of a flexographic printing press at the company's Gardner headquarters GARDNER - Most people probably couldn't guess the Chair City's biggest manufacturer.

Matthew Bircher , 30, of 72 Central St., Gardner, was arrested Feb. 5 by Northborough police on charges of OUI liquor and number plate violation.

GARDNER, Mass. - A father and son from north central Massachusetts have been charged with illegally baiting and then shooting a bear.

Cheryl Girouard stands next to her furnace, one of many in Gardner that have suffered a breakdown in a hot water coil.

Editor's note: Louise Barteau is a gardening correspondent for the Advocate, specializing in native plants.

The Greater Gardner Artists Association is preparing for the 24th Annual Spring Art Show, April 13-15. The opening will be held on from 7-9 p.m. Friday, April 13, in the Boland Room at Heywood Place, Central Street.

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The Citizen's Bank inside the Stop & Shop on Route 9 in Shrewsbury was robbed back in October of 2010.

A missing witness prompted prosecutors to drop charges against four men accused of beating and robbing another man in Templeton three years ago.

Linda Palladino is addressing local needs in her new role as director of the North Central Human Services outpatient mental health clinic in Gardner.

A Fitchburg man was sentenced to prison Friday for his role in five bank robberies across Central Massachusetts.

We have a whole workforce development system, we have a secretary of workforce development, we have a secretary of labor ... They have millions and millions of dollars.

The Fitchburg-Leominster region added jobs at a slower rate than the state as a whole in the past year, according to a report released Tuesday by the the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Supporters of the North Central Charter Essential School were prepared to travel to Malden this morning to ask the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to renew the school's five-year charter with no conditions.

This weekend at the Massachusetts Municipal Association annual meeting, Mayor Mark P. Hawke said he will be interested in what the governor has to say about the state budget, but what he really hopes to talk about is sewerage.

When State Rep. Rich Bastien was elected in 2010, he pledged to hold monthly office hours in each of the communities he covers to reach out to his constituents as much as possible.

GARDNER, Mass. - State police say a Framingham woman has died after her car crossed the median and collided with a pickup truck on Route 2 in Gardner.

Neighbors are calling a third-floor tenant a hero for rescuing an elderly, disabled man from his first floor apartment in a three-decker on Franklin Court and Graham Street early yesterday morning, a fire that killed one woman in her 40s and injured a firefighter.

One person is dead, and a firefighter is injured, after firefighters responded to a severe fire inside a three-decker at Franklin Court and Graham Street this morning.